Is it possible that millions of years from now the inhabitants of Earth will study cryogenically frozen bodies to understand us better? Maybe recreate our thoughts from the brain tissue?
2006-09-05 06:52:06 · 6 answers · asked by Oracle Of Delphi 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
nahh, they will know all that already, they might wake a few up for a tasty snack though, or a quick game of poke the barbarian
2006-09-05 06:57:50 · answer #1 · answered by a tao 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
As I see it you're hitting on two different issues.
The first is how do we preserve our bodies for future generations to study. I do not believe that the solution to this problem is cryogenics. In order to keep someone frozen at 77k (the boiling point of nitrogen) you have continually cool the system. This means that technology has to be in place and maintained to keep the cooling running. Realistically this mean you need intelligence. In such a system it would be far easier and more cost effective to simply copy DNA gene for gene and store on some sort of medium. Any advanced civilization should the technology to decode and read the DNA.
The second issue is cryogenic freezing oneself in the hope that you can be waken up in better more advanced future. With the exception to space travel I see this as cheep way out. Odds are if you want to be frozen to be woken in the future, then there is something about the present that you are unhappy with. Instead of addressing your problems you hope that you will be awaken in a future with no problems. In reality if you can be woken up, then it will be in a world very alien to you, and your ability to contribute will be significantly diminished due the scientific and technological advances since you were frozen. Have you seen the movie Vanilla Sky?
2006-09-05 15:04:35 · answer #2 · answered by sparrowhawk 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Perhaps unrelated to the question but:
The trick with cryopreservation is not to be really cold. That can work but the process must be as rapid as possible and you are not going to freeze an entire body to -70 degrees and lower in times of less than a second. Instead cool to marginally above the temperature at which the tissues freeze and hold there. That is as close to stasis as you can get and should keep you nice and "fresh" for the future.
Oh yes, and you have to have some way of resuscitating the body later. Its not at all clear just how long you'll last!
2006-09-06 05:56:46 · answer #3 · answered by gogs 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't think the cryonics charges pay for a million year's worth of electricity. Also, the earlier freezees were frozen using a process that damages tissue, not much chance of waking them up. Besides, if you recreate the last thoughts of a dead person, they're likely to be "I wonder what's on TV tonight? Now where did I put my keys? What was that? Aaargh!"
2006-09-05 15:25:28 · answer #4 · answered by kirun 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
well our thoughts are just electrical impulses, and seeing as when you die electrical activity in the brain stops, kind of like the ram on a computer, when u turn it of anything on the ram is forgotten, and when u kill someone their brain forgets everything.
god i need a life :S
2006-09-05 14:05:25 · answer #5 · answered by Mark H 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No.They are simply liquefied gases like liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen etc. Fossil is understood to be organic material buried under earth for aeons and rediscovered.
2006-09-05 13:57:15 · answer #6 · answered by openpsychy 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋