2007-05-15 04:31:28 · 19 answers · asked by NONAME 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
Not currently. Some animals have be brought back, but not after years.
One of the reasons it can't be done is that your body contains water. When water freezes it expands and forms sharp ice crystals which shred you on the cellular level and cause massive damage that can't be repaired.
Work is being done with "anti-freeze proteins" to protect cells from this type of damage.
2007-05-15 04:38:45 · answer #1 · answered by Octal040 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
An outright "no" is not entirely correct.
If you were to believe Tom Cruise in Vanilla Sky, you'd be thinking it was already possible to freeze and unfreeze pets successfully (Benny The Dog).
However, a quick search of the web shows that perhaps the whole "Benny The Dog" thing was made up.
There are plenty of companies that will offer to freeze you for an ongoing fee after your death - And some of their procedures are quite sophisticated. Off the top of my head, I think they cost at least $70,000 for just your head, and over $140,000 for your entire body. They don't just snap freeze you, they do all sorts of things to clear out your veins/arteries and keep you in an optimal state.
That given, it could all be just smoke and mirrors so that they get your money!
To date, no *person* has been frozen and reanimated successfully. These companies are either hoping that our technology improves astronomically over the next hundred or so years so that people can be unfrozen.... OR.... they are hoping that the Government never shuts them down, and they can keep taking money for false hope.
Celebrities that have frozen themselves include John Wayne, Walt Disney and Evil Knievel.
2007-05-15 04:39:42 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
With current technology, no. When the body is frozen, the water in the body crystalises into ice and shreds the cell membranes in the body. There is no chance anyone can live with all of their body cells ruptured like that. Until there is some way to repair the damage (possibly by nanotechnology), they cannot live again.
2007-05-15 04:35:05 · answer #3 · answered by Enceladus 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. The cells in the body contain a special liquid called "H2O". When this "H20" is frozen, it tends to create what I like to call "icicles" inside the cells. These "icicles" stab and cut the cells and the cells are damaged beyond repair.
2007-05-15 04:36:01 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No,ask Walt Disney.
2007-05-15 04:33:57 · answer #5 · answered by havanadig 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, because the freezing process destroys cell structures. The body may be "preserved" but cannot be restored.
2007-05-15 04:34:10 · answer #6 · answered by Bill W 【ツ】 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That would be cool. Walt Disney is frozen until they find the cure for his disease =/
2007-05-15 04:33:57 · answer #7 · answered by ME 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you're able to not freeze the physique quickly sufficient to renounce the ice from fatally rupturing your cells. It would not be discovered to be deadly till you have been thawed out returned. it is the strawberry effect.
2016-12-11 10:06:46 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not as of yet; neither successful long term option has been proven to work
2007-05-15 04:34:17 · answer #9 · answered by wizjp 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the movie Forever Young it can. Great movie, but not possible.
2007-05-15 04:34:22 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋