Discovery Channel Next Step : Cryogenics

[hawkman350]

I can think of a lot of downsides to this.

[oriondynasty]

hey if you pay for just freezing the head would they freeze your dick also?

[compulsivebitch]

@oriondynasty If you put it in your mouth, I suppose they would.

[Cdogpyjamas]

Fascinating video but wouldn't changing the molecular structure cause the items to shrink slightly? They don't mention the costs involved.

[blckchrysda]

@Cdogpyjamas The video explains that at about 3 minutes in.

[esperedion]

I saw this video at cryogenicsteel. com. You can read more about cryogenics at that nice blog.

[DK0526]

Alcor and CI have very different price structures...CI is only 28,000 but yes if you want stand by and other things you pay more...just like anything else.. I wonder if standby has value if you cant plan your death as in terminal cancer...what if your in a car wreck...Standby is the more inclusve plan but it cost more..I guess you get what you pay for. If I was terminal I'd move to the cryonics institute to die anyhow.

[ARandomCanadian]

I'm thinking of doing this. I'd like to come back in the future and see what civilisation has become. Even if I only live for a few weeks afterwards I think it'd still be worth the 58,000$.

[DK0526]

@ARandomCanadian you can do it for 28,000 at the cryonics institiute, which is not too expensive considering life insurance would pay for it.

[ARandomCanadian]

@DK0526 Ya but thats only to get frozen, you also gotta pay for the dry ice to keep you frozen for the next 50-200 years or whatever. Probably the same as life inssurance really...

[DK0526]

@ARandomCanadian No thats for everything. The it costs much less the 28,000 to take your body down to Liquid Nitrogen temps. Most of the 28,000 is invested in a very conservative mixed fund that gains compounding interest. The interest is used to pay the overhead such as facility , personnel and perpetual liquid nitrogen. Dry ice is simply not cold enough to stop all molecular motion. Also Liquid nitrogen is cheaper.

[ARandomCanadian]

@DK0526 Ya I meant liquid nitrogen...

[DK0526]

@ARandomCanadian since the 28,000$ from the life insurance is kept in a trust fund to grow with compounding interest it will continue to pay for an endless supply of liquid nitrogen regardless of inflation.

[ARandomCanadian]

@DK0526 Hmmm, that's not what I understood from what I read...

What's the LIFETIME $88,000 & YEARLY $95,000 for Insurance-funded costs for basic SA Standby/Transport plus CI Perfusion/Storage?

[mikeborja1]

@ARandomCanadian I think whatever they wake up on that day, it won't be you. These people can froze your cells but not your escence.

[ARandomCanadian]

@mikeborja1 What's escence? Is there proof of this escence?

[mikeborja1]

@ARandomCanadian of course man, your escence is your personality, your identity and even your memory. Each one of us is like a finger print, very symilar but never the same. After all what do you want them to preserve? your body? the way you looked at the time you died? what for? want to be an old sick man in the future? is this going to preserve the memory of people you love? would you thank this people for waking you up in a place where everybody you knew is dead?

[ARandomCanadian]

@mikeborja1 They keep the brain, and they give you a new body. I thought that was the deal.

Even if they don't, I might be a sick old man in the future with only a few days to live but at least I SAW the future

[DK0526]

@ARandomCanadian Yes ...more acurately they keep the mind and use your own DNA and boday structure to grown a new body and a new brain while maintaining the information structure that makes up your every memory and thought. You can be revived young and healthy or even super human in health, intelligence, strength ect...all with you same mind intact. Thats the plan anyhow! If it works then by defacto we will have nanotech and therefore the world will be a pretty great place.

[DK0526]

@mikeborja1 everything that current neural medicine tells us is that your memory or personality is like software encoded on the morphic wetware that is your brain. All the information that composes your mind is encoded in the twisted nuerons and synaptic connections. So by locking them in place at LN2 temps you in essence save a persons data so that your personality can remain. As for your DNA if one cell makes it then clonning suggests we could regenerate tissue within your structural framework

[DK0526]

@mikeborja1 The patterns and connections of brain cells encode your "essence" or mind so if you save the pattern you save the mind as well as the body.

[areallylongassname2]

Freeze my dick

[SilkTvChannel]

i wander if your could freeze a superman outfit and make it bulletproof lmao in like 500 years

[jmartinez0427]

Actually, it would probably make body armor better to.

[AlixIgnasi]

@SilkTvChannel you are dumb as fuck.

[SilkTvChannel]

@AlixIgnasi

Yeah, and your mom has crabs.

Fuck off .. noob.

[AlixIgnasi]

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FUCK OFF NOOB

Shut the fuck up, you retarded newfag. Go suck some dick until you don't suck dick anymore.

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[SilkTvChannel]

@AlixIgnasi

Aww i think i've upset the little gremlin, so sorry to hear that,

[AlixIgnasi]

@SilkTvChannel Derp, derp fucking derp.

You are the worst counter troll I have ever seen. Baww.

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[FilmPA]

I hope you both get cryo-frozen having gay anal sex

[TheUFOeffect]

freezing it would make it brittle.

[TheUFOeffect]

only because its rubber and stuff. not metal or plstic

[impulsive2urge]

what if i freeze your dick in it so it will become even stronger?

[jaysupervocal]

LOL... you can carry your sex partner using your dick =))

[gamingsquare]

i live 45 mins from decatur!

[maglight117]

farinhight -273 is c -459 is f

[winstonm44]

Everyone should check out Vanilla Sky. I'm not really a fan of Tom Cruise but that movie kicked ass, and it has a little something to do with this...

[lifelegend]

i don't care about it's use on inanimate objects, what about people?

[GoldieTalon]

Cryogenics can freeze people of course, and every few years, they change and improve the methods for better chance at a easier resurrection process.

as far as bringing people back thats out of our current technical ability...and will be until nanotech matures enough...perhaps another 50 years give or take.

if you got the extra cash, cryogenics is a pretty good roll of the dice, but it is pricy and alot could go wrong (aka, die alone and undiscovered for too long, bad damage to brain, etc(

[lifelegend]

yeah, but when are they gonna start trying to bring the people back? its easy to freeze someone and wait for the technology to be created.

[GoldieTalon]

You answered the question...they will bring people back once the tech is here

specifically nanotechnology...and it will start with bugs, mice, etc...people only once the science is perfected.

so, dont expect it to happen anytime soon...perhaps in a couple hundred years, maybe less depending on how rapidly nanotech develops.

and frankly, the frozen people are not in a rush...doubtful they would want to come back now...not until longevity of life is dramatically increased.

[Neobdragon]

Actually in the year 2001 some guy froze himself and in 2006/2007/2008 he came back.

[lifelegend]

really...does this person have a name?

[SurreallTV]

this sounds like a lie.....but if its true..i would seriously wanna know......any proof?...any youtube links?

[driverim]

neobdragon, stay off the drugs kid lol

[cnbn9]

Is there a video on this?

[PerniciousEvil]

wow, we're learning how to rearrange molecules...how cute.

[0Gips0]

When I die I gonna make that.... it's cool.... x'D

[TogieTung]

Now cryo treatment became industry standard...

[fookyoo1111]

i was crazy about the video games section.. where can i get to see it ........??

[coondogtheman1234]

I LOVED THIS SHOW AND MISS IT DEARLY, this is when discovery channel was actually good there was next step and how'd they do that

[TimeCr0ss]

EXCELLENT POST! I love and miss this show. This is during the golden age of the Discovery channel... Beyond 2k, Next Step, etc.