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Human Hibernation on the Horizon?
Mincemeat.net writes "The BBC is reporting that scientists at University of Washington have successfully induced a state of extreme hibernation in mice. The mice suffered no ill effects. Naturally, testing in larger animals will ensue. Humans wouldn't necessarily appreciate the smell of hydrogen sulfide while being placed into suspended animation. However, the applications are numerous if the usage of similar techniques can be applied to us. Cancer treatment, delaying death from injuries, interplanetary expeditions top the lists of possibilities. While it's not a quick freeze, maybe Fry will be able to meet Bender after all."
Hibernation has been taking place in people since geeks took to their parents' basements.
NAMBLA is starting a mail order business. Just thaw him out and you're ready to go!
So I'll be alive when Duke Nukem Forever is finally released. :)
--- Grow a pair, liberals... stop letting the Republicans bully you!
why? oh why did it have to be THAT molecule?
Free electronics!
Wake me up when the Olson Twins are legal.
Wait, nevermind...
"The newly born animals are then whisked off for a quick run through a giant baking oven." --heard on Food Network
"Finally, after being in a constant state of hibernation for the last fifty years, I am ready to greet the future!"
"Yeah...about that...we all kinda went in after you...so science and technology is about at the same point you left off."
"So I still have cancer?"
"Technically, yes. But hey, at least that asteroid never hit...right?"
Yeah, I bet the next thing you're gonna tell me is that the New York Times reports stuff that occured outside of NYC. Pshh, whatever.
Hey, I was frozen, I know what guy wants to hear first: the bathroom's that way.
</end of obligatory Futurama quote>
"Each count carries a statutory penalty of eight years penal servitude. In the light of your hologrammatic status, these sentences are to be served consecutively, making a total sentence of nine thousand, three hundred and twenty-eight years."
When I am king, you will be first against the wall.
> Bender is an alcoholic robot.
...i am too.
Letter to my lawyer
Enclosed in this envelope is my account information. Please wake me up when I can afford a decent spaceship.
Thank you
PS. ZZZZZzzzzzzzz
I live in Switzerland, you insensitive clod !
Really, I've done this. I hacked my deep freeze to cryogenically freeze me and let me awake in the year 2211. I set up a Unix server to run it all and made sure I had power available until then at least by having my power bill paid from an account into which I deposited $263. I figured the compounding interest over that time would more than pay for the power plus give me a nice nest egg when I awoke. Assuming they still used money in those days. I put myself to sleep on Februray 4th, 2003. Unfortunately I had forgotten to put out dog food for the time I was going to be asleep and poor old Turing (the dog) got a bit restless and he ended up pulling the power on that Unix box. Well, the freezer defrosted, the door popped open and I awoke. First thing I did was turn on the TV. MTV in fact and wow, everything was so different than before. I saw nothing I recognised. I was convinced I had awoken in my choosen time. ThenI looked at my watch and it was February 5th. 2003. Damn the fast moving and ever changing world of popular music.
From what I've heard, the use of certain acetylated opium derivatives induce a state where one needs less sleep (2hrs/day).
The use has quite some side effects, one of them, in my city at least, seems to be a strong preference for car hifi equipment.
Actually, as a parent I can think of a few times where a few hours of peace could be a really good thing. Now the question is do I administer it to me or the child...
"Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival."
--Dr.W.Edwards Deming
shithouse mice are resistant
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
Little nano-bots with little laser beams. Perfeerably resembling the classic blaster design from starwars. or perhaps tiny light sabres, although, the colladeral damage may be too great.
Fry: "You're a robot, why do you need to drink?"
;)
Bender: "I don't need to drink! I can quit any time I want!"
It's not as funny without the voices..
and a leak in a H2S line will definitely ruin your day...
Not to mention your appetite..
"It's too bad that stupidity isn't painful." - Anton LaVey
They drive motorcycles nowadays, and Plague has been replaced by Pollution.
Musicians don't die. They just decompose.
you may have aged nothing while your twin brother or sister will have aged twenty, thirty, forty or however many years it is, depending on how long you were frozen. This will come to you as a profound shock, particularly if you didn't know you had a twin brother or sister.
Sorry it had to be done.
You have been warned.
*Hood on fire*
*Not good*
*EXR-H+ initaiates auto-extingush system, puts the flames out.*
*EXR-H+ releases Auto-Fix-It Unit SSE-3 which repairs the damage*
*EXR-H+ drives you to the nearest Holiday Inn Express*
Plus, if your plane happens to crash (and burn), you'll never know! Maybe I won't be afraid of flying anymore..
As a utilitarian, your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your news letter. As a /.er I would like to say, "KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN", or perhaps make reference to Gundam Seed.
I laughed at the weak who considered themselves good because they lacked claws.
Gamingmuseum.com: Give your 3D accelerator a rest.
I doubt the mice do, either.
It's corrosive, explosive, poisonous...
Es tu Jackie Chiles ?
Unless it's Castro.
Promote civility: mod down any post starting with 'ummm'.
You don't mind if I invoke godwins law, do you?
You are in a twisty maze of processor lines, all alike.
There is a lot of hype here.
"Humans wouldn't necessarily appreciate the smell of hydrogen sulfide while being placed into suspended animation."
Not that anybody is asking them, but I'm guessing the mice don't appreciate the smell either...
I live in Switzerland, you insensitive clod !
I live in clod you insensitive Switzerland!
And that's different from today... how?
Why, oh why, didn't I take the Blue Pill?
We don't want to live in Texas.
Please, oh please: Don't let this be the replacement for 'My Bad'.
So you are saying, all of those nasty kids sitting at the back of the bus farting their asses off were really just trying to slow down my metabolism and make me live a longer life?
Actually, as a parent I can think of a few times where a few hours of peace could be a really good thing. Now the question is do I administer it to me or the child...
Most definitely the kids. I'd love summer vacations. We could just put the kids in storage for the summer and it would just be me and my wife until August when we'd have to wake them and send them to school again.
Maybe it would be easier if we developed year round public boarding schools.