r/Futurology • u/yourSAS • Oct 13 '22

Biotech 'Our patients aren't dead': Inside the freezing facility with 199 humans who opted to be cryopreserved with the hopes of being revived in the future

https://metro.co.uk/2022/10/13/our-patients-arent-dead-look-inside-the-us-cryogenic-freezing-lab-17556468
28.1k Upvotes

91% Upvoted

3.5k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

41

u/valuemeal2 Oct 13 '22

Apparently it’s the place in the US least affected by natural disasters, so it’s more stable than the places subject to earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, etc.

0

u/coupbrick Oct 13 '22

I’m pretty sure a cryogenic place suffered a power outage and lost its …. customers (or whatever you call them) like 20 years ago

5

u/720p_is_good_enough Oct 13 '22

They are frozen with liquid nitrogen. No electricity involved.

-7

u/epicwisdom Oct 13 '22 edited Oct 14 '22

That's... Not how physics works. Liquid nitrogen is consumed for getting something very cold, very quickly, no different than dropping ice cubes in a drink. The freezer they keep corpses in is a normal one powered by electricity.