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> The people storing popsicles don't necessarily need to have anything to do with the people who dream of someday unthawing them. Generally speaking the thing
by chordalkeyboard 4y ago
> The people storing popsicles don't necessarily need to have anything to do with the people who dream of someday unthawing them.
Generally speaking the thing they have in common is the funding required to do the cryonic enterprise.
> If some rich person wants to pay to keep an expensive freezer running for a specified amount of time after they die, that creates a sound business opportunity for someone who is willing and capable of running a freezer.
The question is "why would some rich person want to pay to keep a freezer running after they die?" in the case of cryonics the answer is usually because they have some expectation that they could be unfrozen and revived in the future.
- bombcar 4y agoLet’s skip the freezer and just launch the popsicles into deep space orbit behind mars or something. Once we can successfully Futurama the bodies we will easily be able to retrieve the frozen capsules.
- picture 4y agoWon't they get pelted by microastroids, molecularly pulped with ionizing radiation, cooked by various sources of heat? Popsicles usually don't last very long outside a freezer
- bombcar 4y agoIf you send them away from the sun or otherwise shield them (dark side of a planet, out past Pluto) they’ll be pretty cold and stable. You’d leave them in the rocket of course. The baseline temperature of outer space, as set by the background radiation from the Big Bang, is 2.7 kelvins (−270 °C; −455 °F). Probably too cold.