wasnt that futurama. technically its biologically not possible to do it, because freezing would form ice crystals and damage your cells. maybe for organisms that withstand freezing like this.
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It's a fantasy to me I would be overjoyed to experience.
As much of a fantasy as scifi
Freeze while robot me carries the torch, unfreeze me for genetic material every now and then
Even if I wanted to be frozen, there is no point. One would have no guarantees that you wouldn't just be thawed and disposed later so the company can sell more stasis slots. Or if they decide to even try to keep their word, they could maintain your stasis so badly that you would die from that or maybe thaw partially occasionally or something. Unless you are billionaire and could afford somekind of insurance that makes sure nothing happens to you, there would be absolutely nothing protecting you.
And even if everything went according to plan, society could collapse in such way maintaining the stasis could become impossible due to lack of resources.
Neither, I want to have my brain scan put into a robot and live forever. Or exchange body parts for robot replacements till I'm a robot ship of Theseus.
If you can beat 'em, join 'em!
Neither, I want to have my brain scan put into a robot and live forever
I will never be convinced that isn't a copy. Grod-dang emdot-tu drives don't have thoughts, Michael!
Now getting a brain case to be put into other bodies? Sure. Though I would immediately be unrecognizable as a human, not because I'd become some cyberbrute but because I'd be something more like Wall-E(/an ROV) or at times some monolith in a forest tied into the Myconet.
Maybe humanoid arms, maybe eyes that aren't cameras, but other than that I'm not sure. Maybe living gel (that assists with homeostasis, bioreaction) though that wouldn't be obviously human either. It might be the most obvious just when I'm doing some hobby-esque things, or making a mistake and immediately being aware of it.
Hermes, is that you?
My manwich!
Retire, i don't think I could stand living in the future. I'd definitely love reading a summary of what's coming up next just before I die though.
Please give me the dignity of death.
I will not be a slave for an ultrawealthy megacorporation.
ironically i thought that inspired this would you rather was making IP for Disney and having Disney cryogenically freeze you just to thaw you out to prove your alive so keep the copywrite out of public domain. of course disney would pay for your stasis
Oh good one. That sounds like a nightmare.
Would make for a great short-story!
Jane, get me off this crazy thing!
I wish I had the confidence in mankind's future to consider cryogenic freezing...
Wake up being yelled at by a lawyer for interrupting his masturbation session during "Ow! My Balls!"
Just a minute, baitin.
The global seed vault in Norway is north of the arctic circle as a way of offering preservation insurance and predictable, controlled, frozen temps for food sources and biodiversity. It's constructed deep underground in permafrost.
I was reading a book about refrigeration's impact on the food supply last year and at the end the author decided to visit. The day of her visit it was closed due to emergency at the main gate; meltwater was flooding the entryway. Meltwater North of the arctic circle.
I think it's much more likely you awake when the power goes out because MicrosoftAlphafacebookXDisneyP&G needed more power for a new data center and you couldn't afford a politician to keep your town's power.
If the power goes out, you don't wake back up. This ain't fallout 4. If the power goes out, you're a corpse. We don't have a way to thaw human sized creatures that doesn't involve ice crystals rupturing cell walls, and organs. The only creatures that seem to be able to do it, either live at the poles in water, or are tiny. Even then, most of them aren't mammals.
yeah i was thinking about that. like would you wake up in a dictatorship or a time with way more problems than now
I'd rather retire and die in piece than wake up to an unfamiliar world.
none of that shit works and won't work for a good minute, cryonics is rapture for nerds that take scifi way too seriously
what we already know tho is that because there's one payment to store meat popsicle effectively forever and this shit is ran by true believer techbros, it tends to run out of money pretty regularly. that means they run out of liquid nitrogen and meat popsicles thaw, and this already happened more than once
I think I'd go the Bobiverse route so I both get to die and be a self-replicating spaceship.
When I thought the world had a future, I would have opted for cryogenics.
But I am 100% that we are on our way to the big reset button.
Not necessarily extinction, per se. But a societal bottleneck where a man-made catastrophe throws the survivors back technologically and we have to start the climb all over.
Getting past that point to the realm of actually achieving the technology necessary to unfreeze me seems unlikely. So cryogenics is just death with a preserved corpse.
I'll take death. The sooner the better, lately.
i see so you'd live in best of times as much as possible instead of skipping to the great reset. i dont think we can get set back that far simple because of GMO of plants and global trade. also refined metals would still exist. a car engine can rust or break but the engine can be melted into farm equipment. so we are safe from bronze age. id say we would be a cross between iron age with modern tech
When I unfreeze myself, will the 93 cents in my bank account accrue interest and give me over 1 billion dollars?
That depends on if freezed corpses have ownership rights.
Yes, but inflation will outpace your interest.
Yes, but in the future, something as simple as a tin of anchovies can cost nearly this much.
you would need a alien-lobster race coming in 200 years to eat up all the anchovies first.
monkeys paw: USD is no longer used
Yes, but society has moved past the use of money and established a socialist world government.
finger curls closed on the monkey paw
I'd like to retire till I'm incapable of taking care of myself. Then freeze my head
Ask me this a couple months ago and I'd have opted for freezing me, no question. But I lost my person, and I've realized it's not that I was afraid to die or that I wanted life to go on forever. I wanted the life I had to go on forever. That's gone now. I'll opt for the end date on the tin.
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If I could flip a switch and just stop my life like turning off a tv I'd do it immediately. Extending it?! Sheesh
I don't want to die, but I don't want to live.
I just wanna be a ghost floating around, watching everything. Like watching a TV show with real characters, real emotions, deaths are real and no "Somehow, Palpatine Has Returned" shenanigans.
Unfreeze me for a week each year. I get to spend a day catching up on what's happened, mourning the dead, and then a few days exploring what's new, and then a day planning next year's excursions.
being rich is not the solution to rising ocean waters, fascist dictatorships and weapons stockpiling.
stop idolizing billionaires. they're garbage human beings.
Op said rich enough to retire. That is defined as having enough money to not work again, not worry about food, medical, entertainment, transportation, being able to take a couple vacations a year and travel how the individual wants (maybe that’s by first class on Delta Airlines, maybe it’s just by driving), not having to go into a nursing home and getting treated like crap when you can’t live alone anymore.
Being rich enough to retire is different then being ultra wealthy as a billionaire.
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lol i dont expect to solve problems witht this would you rather
Most days, I wish for another asteroid.
Humans have plagued this planet too long.
Only if I can sync up my cryo pod with my wife. I'd have to have someone to share the future with
Uh, retire. I bet it's awful to be transported to the future, where no one knows you personally, and you don't even know anything in the future.
that is kinda the appeal that its new and unknown; its something novel to explore. losing people you know know is a big price, you could hope that someone comes with you into the cyrochamber
where no one knows you personally, and you don’t even know anything in the future
That's my life already. So I guess it should be me, maybe they can fix my health and maybe I could live more comfortably+freely and learn a little more. Some symbiotic cyborg tech would be nice too, but maybe happy/purposeful revival is already a stretch.
This is a great listen if you want to know about what’s going on with cryogenics https://www.thisamericanlife.org/354/mistakes-were-made/act-one-8
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