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Reanimated Lobsters?
SYFer writes "Trufresh, a Connecticut-based frozen food company claims that lobsters frozen with its special freezing process sometimes come back to life when thawed.
If these claims prove true, will the dubiously regarded field of "cryonics" finally get some respect?" If people were more like lobsters, maybe. The company's success rate at reviving lobsters after short-term freezing (at -40 degrees) is 12 out of 200.
LOBSTER STICKS TO MAGNET
> My comment can be read two different ways. The fish died because we killed them. I have no idea how long they would survive if we left them alone.
Kill them once, shame on you; kill them twice, shame on them.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
Frozen to death, reanimated, then boiled to death.
Kill them once, shame on you; kill them twice, shame on them.
I think a certain bowl of Petunias would disagree with you on this one...
just freeze 'em til you need your customer to pick out his lobster, then kill him and cook it!
But if you kill your customer, who will pay for your delicious lobster dinnner?
(Comment is particularly disconcerting coming from a user named "Meneudo"...)
Stressed? Me? Of course not. Stress is what a rubber band feels before it breaks, silly.
Subject "En1arge y0ur manh0od - then free2e it so it's redy when u are!"
-Adam
Agreed... could be something it ate. Or it's just a particularly ornery lobster.
My hypothesis would be a genetic component there, which the antifreeze protein you are suggesting would fit with.
You've convinced me to do an experiment...
I need 200 volunteers. Only 12 or so of you will make it through this experiment but it is a sacrifice I'm willing to make.
[typing in blurb]Lobsters frozen down to as cold as -40
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reanimated when thawed.
[Giggles a bit thinking of what happens to the fool who 'catches my mistake' and replies before reason catches up]
[completes blurb]
Ok, maybe you had to be there...
PS [Feels stupid for having wasted time submitting an 'article' to /.] :)
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Yeah, but I had taken it to be -40 Kelvins.
Gates' Law: Every 18 months, the speed of software halves.
Who cares if they survive if you can just reanimate them?
Currently hooked on AMP
...how about Babel fish?
"Arthur prodded the mattress nervously and then sat on it himself: in fact he had very little to be nervous about, because all mattresses grown in the swamps of Squornshellous Zeta are very thoroughly killed and dried before being put to service. Very few have ever come to life again."
I doubt that we will ever figure out - and I suspect that even if we did figure out we couldn't do much about it
So someday, somebody will discover a cure for bankruptcy. But I need a place to stash my frozen head now!
And I, for one, welcome a new joke every now and then.
If you get nervous, just remember that there are a few billion other people who don't really give a damn.
Not that i disagree with your post, but i couldn't help picture you as a lobster exhorting a bunch of others :-)
"Our interests are to see if we can't scale it up to something more exciting," he said.
Freazing Goldfish in LOX. Just how much adult beverages had you and your fellow 'science' researchers drank? :->
Eh, Dr. Zoidberg, unfortunately there is only enough oxygen for the rest of us left on the spaceship .. I'm sure you won't mind helping us by staying in the freezer. *Push*
I'm still trying to figure out what people mean by 'social skills' here.
This means you won't have to go through expensive layoffs and re-hiring phases during economic cycles.
When it turns out you have too many employees, just send a couple of them into the freezers under some pretext, and thaw them out when things get busy again.
Cole's Law: Thinly sliced cabbage
Yeah, but how did she taste?