CRYONICS. Is it for you?

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
11/02/2009 17:42

Cryonics is freezing people so they may be brought back to life in the future. The future is hoped to be an amazing existence where the sorts of things people die of now days can easily be cured. The technology is assumed to be good enough to bring back to life people who have been frozen solid for hundreds of years.



Would you consider it?

biker-babe


Joined: 30/12/2008
Posts: 75

Message Posted:
11/02/2009 17:46

certainly wouldn't trust a Cypriot company (probably turn the freezer off overnight to save elctric costs). Suzie

scoobydoo


Joined: 10/11/2008
Posts: 2434

Message Posted:
11/02/2009 17:47

Definitely not, who would want to be over 100 years old? I don't recognise this world from when I was a kid never mind hundreds of years later.

guidosp1


Joined: 30/12/2008
Posts: 341

Message Posted:
11/02/2009 17:57

hiya bill we wouldnt know anyone when we woke up and think of all the things that would have changed.

croft



Joined: 09/02/2009
Posts: 65

Message Posted:
11/02/2009 18:03

If you want to get frozen, come over to London! we can probably do you the first three months free-of-charge, if the amount of snow still on the ground is anything to go by.



After that, it's all down to the deal you can strike with a local branch of Iceland (that's the frozen food company, not the bankrupt country).



Joking apart, the science you're referring to is properly speaking Cryobiology. At the moment, it can be used to successfully freeze and re-thaw eggs, sperm etc but no-one has yet demonstrated that they can revive an entire mammal - still less a human being.



You can expect to see 'Icicles, the wonder Chimp', or whatever, paraded around on TV years before they get close to reviving a human. At the moment, the real beauty of the technology is that none of the customers come back to complain.

britvic



Joined: 05/09/2008
Posts: 3039

Message Posted:
11/02/2009 18:05

Will everyone be wearing silver suits and be living on the Moon? Don't think I'll bother, don't fancy a silver jumpsuit it's so 80's! Or maybe Space 1999! LOL

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
11/02/2009 18:19

Vicki....do you mean the 1980's...1987 perhaps

eager


Joined: 23/02/2007
Posts: 1272

Message Posted:
11/02/2009 18:27

msg 7..........schhhh, mum's the word !

smithy


Joined: 17/07/2008
Posts: 5301

Message Posted:
11/02/2009 18:30

Don'T think so, do you mean when we are defrosted and look on the forum the same old cronies will be slagging everyone off, or will we be on our best behavior and talk nice to people, Now that would be worth waking up for

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
11/02/2009 18:56

Have faith smithy. The world will be a better place in a hundred years time. I'm going to buy a set of thermal underwear and phone this Cryonic company up for an appointment......

smithy


Joined: 17/07/2008
Posts: 5301

Message Posted:
11/02/2009 19:36

Count me in No1Doyen

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
11/02/2009 22:12

OK. That's two of us. We need a few more or we'll get cold ))

negativenick


Joined: 10/11/2008
Posts: 6023

Message Posted:
11/02/2009 22:14

the thought of Garry Monger's misus being frozen then being brought back to life, put's the fear of God into me.



One lifetime is enough for any man...



Nick

Lilli



Joined: 21/07/2008
Posts: 13081

Message Posted:
11/02/2009 22:18

well count me in but you two are not going anywhere yet. i need you. Bill would time stand still and we will wake up in trnc thinking we had a bad dream.now im all for modern science if they can transplant a lovely face a beautiful longer body blonde hair and a great personality ten sign me up. with my luck i will come out with a blue rinse. love to you both xxxxxx

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
12/02/2009 09:43

Lilli - there will not be a blue rinse brigade in the future. The future is no hair. Saves time washing and cutting. )

deecyprus4


Joined: 27/07/2008
Posts: 3452

Message Posted:
12/02/2009 09:48

Cripes no thanks...well not unless Antonio Banderas was with me