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Suspended Animation Tests Successful
chrisb33 writes "Wired News reports that suspended animation tests have been successfully carried out with pigs. From the article: 'Long the domain of transhumanist nut-jobs, cryogenic suspension may be just two years away from clinical trials on humans (presuming someone can solve the sticky ethical problems).'" The pig that was the subject of the article was kept in suspended animation for two hours, and Duggan and his team have successfully suspended hundreds of pigs for an hour at a time. It's still a far cry from a spaceship filled with sleep pods, but would be just the ticket for doctors who need to buy extra time to save lives.
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When we get to the point of cryogenic suspension being used in space travel, it's not the process I would be worried about. *cough*HAL*cough*
How can you freeze hundereds of pigs for an hour? (And thaw them at the same time?).
It will make a good business, freezing people so their savings would grow and they could see the future.
But it also means the meat in your freezer might be technically alive.
alive!
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This calls for a muppet movie in which Miss Piggy wakes up in 2999 and befriends an alcoholic robot, one-eyed mutant girl, and muffle-voiced walking lobster.
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... and mostly dead is not the same as completely dead.
Can you imagine the lack of respect these researchers must recieve in certain circles?
Also I wish Wired would have elaborated a bit regarding the ethical issues of suspended animation. Saving people from gunshot wounds, the only example listed in the article, seems like a no-brainer to me.
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suspended animation... ooh shit.. lets hope disney won't sue me
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Pigs! I hear pigs, any advance on pigs? Come on, ladies and gentlemen, I'm sure you've frozen more impressive animals than pigs. Dogs! Thank you sirs. Dogs to the group of US scientists in the corner. Dogs are bid. Dogs is the bid. Do I hear any advance on dogs? Dogs going once... Going twice... WALT DISNEY! Sold! Sold to the gentleman with the large ears and his trouserless sailor friend.
Watching something as boring golf on TV puts me in a state very similar to suspended animation anyway
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Child Care!
If this technology could be refined and then mass-produced to where freezing someone for say 8 hours would be cheaper than day care then I can definitely see a market for that...
"Never miss your child's first steps, first words, or anything they do!" "*Always* be there for your kids!" "Never worry about where your children are at night!" "Freeze and Forget!" "Spend more time alone with your spouse without having to worry about the little ones barging in!"
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Oh, I just can't wait until airlines decide to save money on flights by forcing passengers into suspended animation, under the guise of preventing terrorism, just so they can stack people in boxes as cargo.
Airlines don't worry much about the health effects of passengers when they cut back on fresh air and increased the percentage of stale recirculated air. So I doubt that airlines will care about the health effects of passengers that are forced to undergo suspended animation.
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