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What is this for? a) So people can reawaken in a post apocalyptic world where everything is ... worse? b) Send people to distant planets like sci-fi. Except i

• simple_is_best 2y ago
  I think if you read the whitepaper/roadmap/look at any of the online content relating to their general mission, they have pretty admirable goals along the way to the relatively sci-fi idea of full body reversible cryo! For example, providing human neural tissue to research labs that ordinarily would be unable--due to geographical and supply chain circumstances--to procure it. The implications of that are huge... the typically used rat tissue in neuro research is a terrible analog for the human brain, and technological innovations such as this would surely accelerate the pace of research towards curing neurodegenerative diseases. Also, their aim of reversibly cryopreserving whole human organs could potentially eliminate waiting lists for organs and ensure that every organ recipient receives a donor organ that has had all of the relevant immunological testing done to prevent post-op rejection. I definitely agree, the future is uncertain, and the prospect of being sent thousands, maybe millions of years into to the future not knowing whether the infrastructure to revive you will still be around (and not knowing whether you will be under a thousand feet of accumulated sediment) is not for most people, if any. However, I think the implications of this technology when considered beyond a knee-jerk reaction are pretty substantial!