14 August 2024

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Yep, that's the fun part of this whole cryogenic thing. In order for your body to make it into the 25th century or whatever, it needs to be continuously frozen for multiple centuries.
No defects, no prolonged power outages, no human errors, no your great-great-great-grandchildren deciding they don't want to pay for keeping a guy frozen they never met.
And even if your frozen body somehow makes it to the 25th century and they actually have the technology to restore your freeze-damaged body, you still need whoever's alive then, to care to actually do that thing...
- That's why you gotta put the capsules in space
  
  The unmitigated radiation outside the ionosphere would also do just as much if not more damage over time than freezing.
  
  Burial in a nitrogen filled sealed casket on the moon then?
  
  Might not help.
  
  Or the world just fuckin ends because of capitalism and a necromancer uses your corpse to kill Gaia.
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gideon_the_Ninth
  
  In space you need even more cooling, unless you put them on the dark side of the Moon or somehow keep maintaining an orbit that's always in shadow.
  
  Make sure things are good and cold first, then just send into an orbit around the sun that's at a Lagrange point far enough out to stay cool.
  The dark side of the moon still gets just as much light as the other side so not sure why you mentioned that one, but you're right it can be hard to get rid of heat in space if you're producing it.
  
  You are right, not sure why I said "dark side", I was thinking of craters that are in permanent shadow (a bunch of those on poles).
- https://waitbutwhy.com/2016/03/cryonics.html
  I'm still not gonna do it, but it's not crazy as it sounds (warning: the post I linked to is LONG. if you don't have an hour to kill, don't start reading it)
- freeze-damaged body
  Well that part is easy! Just run 'em through the vaccuum sealer real fast and you won't have any freezer burn!
- They store the bodies upside down in tanks of liquid nitrogen so that if power and backup power go offline they still have a while before the nitrogen boils off.
  Assuming revival becomes possible, it will likely decrease in expense and difficulty as time goes on. It seems likely that at some point people would be woken up just out of curiosity or for a study, once it becomes cheap enough.
- And still it is infinitely more plausible at a success than anything else...
  Except maybe rejuvenation!
  
  Making your peace with the fact that you are mortal probably still has the highest success rate.
  
  You need to do that either way, cryonics has the goal of extending your life, not make you immortal, obviously. Even if somehow the tech works out, you are still going to die at some point, probably in a traffic accident.
- This is why it should be somewhere with low ambient temperature. Like the moon.

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