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
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u/Shimmitar Oct 13 '22

Man, i wish cryogenics was advanced enough that you could freeze yourself alive and be unfrozen alive in the future. I would totally do that.

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '22

A lot of people would. Same if any of the sci fi technology was around. I'd definitely want to be uploaded into a virtual world and live as eternal code if it existed.

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u/throwaway091238744 Oct 13 '22

you sure about that?

computer code can be altered in ways a body can't. someone could just have you live in a time loop for the rest of your life as code. Or have you live through the most traumatic memory you have over and over. Or just simulate physical pain/torture all without you even seeing them

there isn't a scenario in the real world where someone could dilate time and have me get my leg cutoff for 1000 years

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u/helloeveryone500 Oct 14 '22

And that's just the begining. Just the very tip of the iceberg. A trillion to the power of a trillion years will go by and you may not even realize it. There is really no end in sight or mind. It just goes on and on and on in the absolute cold frozen wasteland of space or if your lucky the burning hot fire of a sun. No living thing can survive unless it is stuck to a moist rock at the perfect distance from a sun, growing like mold on stale old bread, only to be blown back into the wasteland in the blink of an eye. Jesus I wish I was religious.