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There's a huge difference there, in that information storage via cryogenic preservation is an at least theoretically valid basis. It's still "Step 2: ???" but s
by crooked-v 3y ago
There's a huge difference there, in that information storage via cryogenic preservation is an at least theoretically valid basis. It's still "Step 2: ???" but steps 1 and 3 are compatible with known science.
- warent 3y agoStep 3 being... resurrection from being dead 100s of years? What known science is that?
- hulitu 3y agoMaybe a perfume company developing new aromas.
- vagab0nd 3y agoMummification was probably compatible with the best known "science" back then.
- IggleSniggle 3y agoMost likely the bleeding edge state of the art! Embalming practices of some cultures mystified modern science for quite a long time, iirc!
- throwoutway 3y agoIf bleeding was an intended pun, nicely done. That said, my only comment to this train of thought is that at least the building in the video takes up less space & resources than a pyramid.
- Chris2048 3y agoYou can't backdate "science" to the best approximate voodoo of the time to dunk on it. Science didn't really exist at the time.
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- insanitybit 3y agoWas there any form of formalized scientific method at that point? I'm not sure it's fair to say that anything about mummification was science based unless you're using the term very colloquially to just mean "what people thought was right". Empirically, we're obviously way ahead of where humans were at the time of mummification, so I think it's a silly comparison anyways.
- lolinder 3y agoLike I said, it's a veneer of science instead of a veneer of religion. Depending on your values the scientific veneer may be more appealing than the religious one, but neither is founded in particularly strong observational evidence.
- charles_f 3y agoI'd go as far as to say that the Egyptians had their shit together more than that, step 2 was pray to Thetis and step 3 resurrect in the underworld. Step 3 is still very much not compatible with known science either, so as far as you can tell the success rate is the same as it was back then
- r00fus 3y agoThe goal for step three is to last long enough that a future society where your endowment could pay for it could bring you back with future tech. Ie a hail-mary.
- pavlov 3y agoAny future society where this is actually possible wouldn’t give a damn about the dead person’s endowment because they’d be so far beyond property rights at that technology level. That one Star Trek TNG episode from 1987 had this right. The accidentally discovered 21st century cryogenists are stunned to find their former wealth and status are irrelevant in Picard-era Federation. I think the question at that time would be: “Do we bring these likely brain-damaged people into a world they can’t understand and which would cause them pain” — and the answer might be “No, that would be cruel”.
- FirmwareBurner 3y ago>“Do we bring these likely brain-damaged people into a world they can’t understand and which would cause them pain” — and the answer might be “No, that would be cruel” Some people already paid to maybe suffer that cruelty in the future, the same way some people already paid to go to the Titanic in an uncertified submarine and die.
- Chris2048 3y agoTNG hand-waves the problems of the economy, property rights etc, and doesn't really explain how they got to were they are. Proclaiming modern capitalist attitudes as "brain-damaged" is a bit smug given this.
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- joseda-hg 3y agoStep 2 is a lot less ??? than people assume, because we have at least unfrozen hamsters back to life in the 60's, it's a scale problem, not necessarily a the magic will get us there problem There was at least some basis to thinking there was an eventual way to get there, even if now it seems cargo cult-ish