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And how exactly do you plan to 'knock out' people safely for eight days, or even just a few? Heck, even for just a few hours without medical equipment and perso
by Keyframe 8y ago
And how exactly do you plan to 'knock out' people safely for eight days, or even just a few? Heck, even for just a few hours without medical equipment and personnel?
- p1mrx 8y agoThe medical technology for human stasis doesn't seem particularly unattainable, when compared against building a carbon nanotube tether into orbit. Some mammals are able to hibernate for months.
- Keyframe 8y agoSo far, for humans, that lives within same realm that warp drives occupy in science fiction.
- p1mrx 8y agoIf bears were capable of warp drive, then I would agree with you.
- Keyframe 8y agoIf bears will be the ones to take space elevator trips, then we're set.
- adrianN 8y agoNo, we don't even know if warp drives are allowed by the laws of physics. We have a pretty good idea how to do hibernation: Saturate the tissue with some cryoprotectant and freeze it very quickly. The problem is that we don't have a cryoprotectant that is sufficiently non-toxic and we can't freeze anything as big as a human quickly enough.
- Keyframe 8y agoOf course we know. Bend space and don't travel faster than light. We JUST need exotic matter of sufficient energy density to carry around.
- adrianN 8y agoYeah and since nobody knows whether the exotic matter needed actually exists, we don't know whether bending spacetime in the required way is physically possible. On the other hand, we can successfully freeze and thaw bunny kidneys.
- TeMPOraL 8y agoAnd some way of resolving the resulting time travel paradoxes.
- jstarfish 8y agoGeneral anesthesia kills 1 in 100,000 patients, and that's with medical personnel standing by in actual hospitals, much less a skeleton crew of people strapped to a spacebound elevator. We don't understand ourselves or our bodies anywhere near as well as we can understand or advance materials science. My money is on new cables before reliable stasis.
- ceejayoz 8y agoI think the safety/ease of sleep makes people think anesthesia is about as easy to manage. In reality, it requires a highly trained professional to be monitoring 24/7, and even that involves very significant risks.