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[–] 17 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Considering how many diseases could be treated by a pause button on metabolism, I would expect this technology to mature in clinics and hospitals long before we get them on spaceships.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    Isn't this just a medically induced coma?

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    Coma has body functions still working, so blood pumping, ceels dying and regenerating, which means if you had cancer it would grow, if you had kidney failure, your blood cleanup would fail. Only thing AFAIK medically induced coma does is help with anything that the brain might be doing to itself like swelling or other complications.

    Hibernation supposedly would slow down all metabolical functions, so less to no, blood flow and so on.

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