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Suspended Animation Tests Successful

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the rip-van-winkle dept.

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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  1. Welcome by gregbains · · Score: 5, Funny

    Welcome.... To the wold of 2 hours later

    1. Re:Welcome by iconeternal · · Score: 5, Funny

      it's like a tivo for the future. wanna know who wins the golf tournament, but don't want to sit around and wait for it? go into a state of suspended animation!

    2. Re:Welcome by shigelojoe · · Score: 4, Funny

      Or do a Rimmer on Red Dwarf

      Hey man, whatever you want to do with a communist midget is none of my business, but the only fetish we allow on Slashdot involves grits.

    3. Re:Welcome by DrEldarion · · Score: 3, Funny

      Want to know what nerds of the future will find interesting? Go into a state of suspended animation, and then on Slashdot, you can read the latest... ... dupes of the stories you read before you were frozen!

  2. old news by iconeternal · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've got four pounds of bacon in my fridge right now.

    1. Re:old news by SpleenVenter · · Score: 3, Funny

      ...and it revives right up over a hot griddle!

  3. Suspension not the problem... by boobox · · Score: 4, Funny

    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*

  4. How? by mnmn · · Score: 3, Funny

    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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    1. Re:How? by wjsroot · · Score: 3, Funny

      (And thaw them at the same time?) Easy. Microwave!

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  5. And now, the movie by krell · · Score: 4, Funny

    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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  6. Let the tasteless joking commence by Eudial · · Score: 4, Funny

    Soylent ice cream is people!

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  7. Re:Wake up rich? by Kesch · · Score: 4, Funny
    oh wait, my friends will all be dead, right?


    Fry: My God! It's the future. My parents, my co-workers, my girlfriend; I'll never see any of them again. Yahoo!
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  8. It wasn't the doctor who saved her life... by thenickboy · · Score: 4, Funny


    But 78-6 is, in fact, only mostly dead

    the thing that brought her back to life was TRUE LOVE...

  9. Oh, GRITS... by Poromenos1 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I thought you said "girls" and I was like "wtf, is this guy on crack?"

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