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An anonymous reader writes "Jet Propulsion Lab and Russian Academy of Sciences are reporting today that when held in suspended animation, permafrost bacteria can continue key molecular maintenance for at least 30,000 years. Since Martian permafrost is the most likely place to identify such still-living bacteria in the novel state of suspended animation, this new deep-freeze clock has considerable research promise as a biomarker. If the urban legend of Walt Disney being cryogenically-preserved under Disneyland's Pirates of Penzance amusement ride were true [it isn't], then his body would continue to repair radiation cell damage until, say, the year 30,000 A.D."
If his body were composed of bacterial cells, which it isn't.
I would have thought he'd be under It's A Small World. Or actually, somewhere in Epcot would make more sense, wouldn't it?
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But seriously, if he had been cryogenically frozen, don't you think he'd be on display in Tomorrowland somewhere? If not in person, then as an Animitronic figure? (OK, not Animitronic because it wouldn't be moving, but you know what I mean.) This is exactly the kind of groovy, Jetsons-type futuristic stuff Walt loved to promote.
And the brethren went away edified.
So if Disney's cells can last for 30,000 years, and he can make it to 30,000 A.D., then that would mean he died in 0 A.D.
If that is the case, then maybe Disney's biggest secret isn't cryogenics but rather the secret identity he had running around Israel back in the day. You know, I've met people who worship Disney... this is all starting to make sense now. Maybe him coming back from the dead isn't such a long shot after all...
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Epcot would make sense if only it hadn't been built a couple of decades after Walt died.
Well, yeah, but they could have moved him there after they built it. You're right about Tomorrowland, though, that's the perfect place for Walt's corpsicle.
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