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[–] 11 points 2 months ago (37 children)

A long time I haven't heard people ranting about cryopreservation, has it become mainstream or maybe forgotten?

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    I read an article about this a while ago. Apparently the main obstacle is the formation of destructive ice crystals. They can avoid this by cooling fast enough to extreme low temperatures, which is already used in practice on very small things:

    This process is now routine for eggs, sperm, and embryos, which are cooled to −196 °C in less than two seconds and can be used even after decades in storage.

    There have been recent breakthroughs in preserving whole organs, albeit not indefinitely so far:

    In new research, one team has been able to supercool the kidneys of pigs—animals whose organs are of a similar size to human ones—and preserve them for days. The kidneys survived being stored at −4 °C (25 °F) and eventually reimplanted back into pigs.

    There's also techniques that don't rely on cooling:

    Another way to prolong the lifespan of an organ is to use a machine that perfuses it with nutrients, mimicking what happens inside the body. Machine perfusion devices have become more commonly used over the last decade or so and are typically used to maintain livers and kidneys for up to about 24 hours.

    They're not close to bringing frozen people back from the dead though:

    When Coles’s friend Greg Fahy, a cryobiologist, studied pieces of his brain years later, he found that the brain cells, which had shrunk, “bounced back” once they were rewarmed. But that doesn’t mean the cells are alive, or that it might one day be possible to reanimate the brain. As Matthew Powell Palm of Texas A&M [the guy who did the pig organ thing] told me at the time: “There are so many ways those neurons could be toast.”

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    Yeah, this is fantastic tech, nice examples! Another is that most donor organs are discarded but wouldn't be if we could cryopreserve them!

    And yeah, those people already cryopreserved today will be the hardest to "get back", they were also already dead (because legislation, can't cryopreserve a living human being even if they're dying right now).

    That shouldn't stop research though IMO.

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  • [+] 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    I think the biggest issue is that, at least quite a few years back, is that the methods of cryogenically preserve the bodies without ice crystals forming cause the arteries to weaken due to the chemicals used instead of blood. So if they were to thaw the body they would need a way to completely replace every artery in the body, or else they will rupture everywhere inside the body once they revive it. So basically the body is doomed to be unusable.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 months ago (15 children)

    Forgotten and most that were frozen had to be scraped out of the the cryo chamber for one reason or another.

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  • [–] -4 points 2 months ago (11 children)

    Source? I mean you sound like one of the anti-cryo people...

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago (9 children)
  • [–] -4 points 2 months ago* (8 children)

    "Tales from the internet"

    Wow, guess you don't have anything serious lol.

    Why do you hate cryopreservation?

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I have no opinion on the topic this video just talks about it you don’t believe me here’s a article talking about the failures mentioned in the other comment

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago

    My problem with it from the starters is that it's an article from February 1992. It's like saying that cancer medicine doesn't work and link a 30 year old article. Medicine has come a long way since then!

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    Why do you hate cryopreservation?

    You know cryo isn't a thing right?

    As in: I hate martians.

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  • [–] -2 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    But it is, we cryopreserve (and thaw) things all the time. Just not entire humans, yet.

    But I understand better your aversion to it, like it was a belief and not science.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Cryopreservation refers to things which will be reanimated when thawed. That's no more plausible than a star trek transporter.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    They do that with small animals already.

    So I guess for you advanced science is indistinguishable from magic.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (14 children)

    has it become mainstream or maybe forgotten?

    Last I remember reading, it seems to have largely revealed itself to be little more than a scam. Although, sure-- if you're rich enough, egotistical-enough, and desperate enough, you can give yourself some comfort in the delusion that you'll be both adequately stored and then later, someone will want to try to unfreeze you at some point and cure you / de-age you.

    *shrug*

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (13 children)

    Well, how can it be a scam if they keep you?

    We are getting better and better at cryopreservation and thawing all the time. It's a young technology, like cancer treatment was a hundred years ago.

    As for the whole "egoistic" part, wouldn't you try to escape death by taking your cancer medicine?

    And desperate? For wanting to live?

    All those takes are completely wild to me. I mean nobody is forcing anyone to do it, and if you don't, well you get buried or cremated, what's the big deal?

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Just because we are getting better at something doesn't mean if we did it incorrectly in the past it suddenly becomes better.

    None of these bodies were frozen in a way that matches modern techniques. No matter how advanced we become we can't fix that.

    It's like if you had a washing machine from 30 years ago and said it uses less electricity now because washing machine technology has advanced so much

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    There *is* no big deal going on there, AFAIK. People have been coping with existential dread for millennia, and at this point it would be weird to expect otherwise.

    My points mainly involve the fact that historically, cryo-preservation doesn't work as intended, however much improved it might be at this point. Also, there's the inevitable subtext that in a civilisation racing towards collapse, the idea that you're going to miraculously defy all odds, somehow coming back to live happier days someplace seems borderline-hilarious to me.

    More probable as I see it is building yourself a rocket ship and settling on luna, where you'll enjoy feasts of moon-cheese for the rest of your days. 🙂

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Yeah I get it, nicely put too.

    I'm much less a doomer myself and we're potentially on the cusp of super longevity and more (yay bunker cheeze after the nuclear war for centuries 😉).

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    For the record, I don't claim to be a doomer in the slightest, just someone who seeks to understand the trajectories of late-stage capitalism and global climate change. But yeah, as you say, science is always coming up with exciting new breakthroughs and such.

    Btw, are you the major Moebius appreciator from a couple years ago?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Note taken! When I think about the doomer attitude, I really feel it depresses people. I'm more of an optimistic mind, or if all goes to hell, yeah let's have cheese and party!

    And yeah that's me, I had a hard time (found out I'm allergic to nuts, but before that I was crazy tired for years, on and off, and that had some impact on my life to say the least) but since the start of the summer I'm back (burning in the french heat waves 🥵) ! I also picked up painting so I'm more of a Renoir guy than Moebuys dud nowadays I guess. Giraud still rocks though 😋!

    You did a Tintin spin off right? Angered some anti-AI luddites IIRC, what are you up to now?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    I really feel it depresses people.

    Yeah, I feel that. Life is short, and I don't see the point in being gloomy if one can possibly help it.

    I also picked up painting

    Oh, nice. I do remember you sharing some art samples a couple years ago.

    You did a Tintin spin off right?

    Haha, I did that once and only once, when I was discovering the possibilities of ChatGPT. I learned a lesson about sharing, but I do still use GPT all the time as an information / lookup assistant.

    Anyway, I'm still curating EGN. Still going strong after 3+yrs...
    https://piefed.social/c/eurographicnovels

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Listen, I don't have a lot of fancy technology, but I do have a chest freezer that I haven't used in a few years. If you want to give me $3,000, I can leave your body in there for, like, five years or whatever. DM me.

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

    😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣😂

    /s

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    Why the hostility? I'm being up front with my offer and I'm not guaranteeing I can make you live forever or anything. It is possible, but unlikely, that an important breakthrough might happen in those five years; sure, it might not be the MOST advanced tech, but it IS at an affordable price point after the point you need to buy anything else.

    But, fine man, if you just want to be dead with absolutely ZERO chance of being revivified and cured of whatever killed you, that's a personal decision.

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