cryogenics: my coolest blog ever!
I read an article last week about doctors employing science on patients where they bring the body temperature to nearly freezing of someone who requires hours of surgery where they would expire under normal conditions. The blood gets replaced with other liquids that creates a state of suspended animation. This borders on true cryogenics... a branch of physics and the study of extremely low temperatures.Animation legend Walt Disney died in 1966 from complications of lung cancer and reports that his body was frozen waiting for one day when a cure was found that he could be revived for treatment. Don't hold your breath on this... the story was a hoax.
Tonight I pulled up some YouTube videos where people (with enough money) can be frozen in hopes that they can be brought back to life at a later date. The link is to Anita, a woman who died of cancer. She was transported to a cryonics lab where her body was preserved and frozen in liquid nitrogen.
This documentary is very cool...
Comments (13)
We would always go back to compare the changed cells to the original.
Some animals in artic zones go through a period where their bodies survive an extended frozen state during the coldest months.
So, given the right supplemental compounds it may be possible to freeze & thaw whole beings back to life.
But, I'm not sure that using the current methods would be effective. It's certainly worth a try though.
One of the problems would be, at what point does one get frozen ? Alive ? Dead ? Therein lies one big ethical issue. Dead may be too late. I never froze a dead cancer cell and then brought it back to life.
Unless they have her 'on ice' in preparation I think a jet helicopter would have been more appropriate. Also, they didn't just drain her blood, they sliced her open and connected tubes to her heart. The cryo-fluid is supposed to remove water from the cells so they don't expand when frozen. Holes were drilled into her skull for insertion of temperature probes to monitor the temperature of her brain.
I have also read when a child fell in the ice up pond she was able to be revived long time after because of the frozen conditions.
I have my doubts, especially if you've encountered frostbite and know the pain from that.
I saw another little dude doing it on the new David Attenborough Seven World series. Basically he froze everything from the outside in, except what was vital to keep him alive.
I could see how it could work on humans, although the Wesley Snipes character in Demolition Man comes to mind
Luckily I'm not afraid of dying - well I say that but a near death experience scares the bejezuz out of me too.
A Star Trek episode covered 3 frozen bodies in space and brought them back to life - I think 300 years involved, could be wrong. No no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no.
fay, as far as I know, they must wait until you are legally dead before proceeding with the process.