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Techies On Ice: The Coming Age of Cryonics
Frozen dinner writes: "SiliconValley.com is running a great article about technology workers' fascination with cryonics. From the article: "[the] otherworldly possibility of life after death [tantalizes] techies of all stripes -- mathematicians, physicists, software developers, computer programmers -- who make up a vast majority of those who have signed up for cryonics suspension. The family feud over deep-freezing baseball slugger Ted Williams has only intensified interest in cryonics in Silicon Valley and in the greater Bay Area, already a hotbed for the experimental and controversial process.""
Dumb.
There's no proof that cryonics works -- that it is possible to reanimate a frozen human body. There's tons of proof that it does not work, that cellular matter gets "freezer burn" pretty quickly and destroys the precious protein chains and complex chemicals that make up life. Yes, even if it's really, really cold. If cryo tecnology can't keep whitefish safe from stinking on a trip to the midwest, how's it supposed to keep you intact for the thousand years it takes them to figure out the solution to cryonic's unfreezing, protein restructuring woes?
There's also no proof that humans will ever live much beyond 75 years old. That could be a very solid barrier that no amount of gene therapy and wishful pseudoreligious pride in technology can repair.
These poor idiots...willing to believe in life-after-death simply because it has a clever sci fi spin. Reminds me of an Orson Scott Card novel...if it doesn't make sense, invent physics where it does. Suckered in by the guarantee that "some day" they'll be able to fix everything when globally we can't even fix hunger, joblessness or disease. And even in the event that a cure becomes available, how's the frozen stiff supposed to pay for it? I laugh at the impossible thought of thousands of hopeful, foolish Faye Valentines, indentured to their doctors and their gift of immortality.
If you truly believe in science, learn Carl Sagan's baloney detection kit. Don't place your trust on ice.
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Simply put: Cryonics is simply an expensive tool for those in denial about their own mortality. The idea that you'll wake up in some future time is unrealistic, if not from a medical technology standpoint then certainly from a social and economic standpoint.
I was born, I will die. I live my life in between these two events, and the fact that it's limited is very basically what gives it value.
Every year during my review, I just pray the words "slashdot.org" aren't mentioned.
These people are idiots.
"Hogg is a member of Alcor Life Extension Foundation, the largest organization supplying cryonics services. When he dies, his body will be immediately packed in ice and flown to Scottsdale, Ariz., where his head will be surgically removed, injected with preservatives, placed in a large metal vat and cooled in liquid nitrogen. Hogg believes the sub-zero temperatures will preserve his mind -- thoughts, feelings, memories, knowledge -- until medical and scientific advances can bring him back to life."
If you loose bloodflow to the old Brain, you start to lose functionality up there.
So these idiots think that after they die, and pumped full of chemicals, then frozen, then thawed out someday and having future mojo done to them they will hve thoughts and feelings still?
Wow.
"No one can say whether it will work or not," Hogg said. "It's an unknown."
I know. It's not going to work Hogg.
Sure, it may be possible to freeze something that's alive and thaw it out and have it come back to life. One thing about all these people that are beeing frozen in the hope that their cancer or whatever can be cured is that they are DEAD! It's not like they were alive and frozen, they're all frozen after death. Not only do we need to find a cure for cancer for them but then we need to revive them from death.
waste of money. move along. nothing to see here.
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