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So quick thread on cryosleep. What is it and how does it work? Will humans really be able to have the ability to sleep for hundreds of years and wake up at the end of it? Well, I am here to talk to you all about the basics of this fascinating upcoming technology. #scicomm (1/7)
The idea is that you are put into a chamber and your body is cooled down to around -200 degrees Celsius, putting yourself into suspended animation. It was proposed in a 1964 book called The Prospect of Immortality and it is thought of as a way for humans to never die. (2/7)
We have technically used similar technologies in the past, induced hypothermia mostly being used during surgeries, and people in the past have survived hypothermia. Someone in 1967 even attempted cryopreservation after dying of kidney failure (it didn't work obviously). (3/7)
How possible is cryosleep actually? Our body is made up of mostly water, and freezing that water could provide damage to our cells that utilize it. Scientists are researching methods to counteract this, kind of like using some sort of antifreeze on the human body. (4/7)
Hibernation in animals is still being studied since we don't understand it completely, though scientists have found a receptor in the brain that is triggered in animals during hibernation, and could be useful to us humans. This is research being done in the present day! (5/7)
It is mainly the space industry that wants to utilize this cryosleep technology. NASA has been worked with an aerospace company called SpaceWorks Enterprises to develop a chamber that would use cryosleep, something useful for future deep space exploration missions. (6/7)
So, this is definitely one of those topics I usually talk about in threads that are straight out of science fiction, but it actually could become a reality in our lifetime! (7/7)
Question for you all: if you had the chance to try cryosleep, would you do it?
Question for you all: if you had the chance to try cryosleep, would you do it?
