KrioRus - cryonics in Russia (SkyNews)

SkyNews report about KrioRus.
Interviewees are:
Danila Medvedev, General Director of KrioRus
Daniil Fedorenko, the grandson of one KrioRus patient.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• cryonics
• kriorus
• skynews
• russia
• cryogenics
• immortalism
• immortality
• immortal
• life
• transhuman
• transhumanism

[pkScary]

I'm skeptical. What % glycerol cryoprotectant are you administering, and how is its dispersion? Have your test subjects more or less been free of ice crystals? What temps are you keeping the brains at? Science will only be able to repair so much damage.

[Danila1]

We have been using the old Cryonics Institute protocol (with up to 75% glycerol) with all that entails. Storage is at LN temperature (-196C). We are working now on improving the procedures, though.

[pkScary]

@DK0526 Theoretically possible science fiction. I like it too! The next couple hundred years will yield these sorts of breakthroughs.

[DK0526]

@pkScary the human body contains trillions of cells and it is extreemly likely that more then one cell will survive. If just one cell survives then using the futures techiques you could clone or stemcell regenerate any part or amount of tissue or cells. The other part is brain structure. If you can infer the minds information that you can retain, copy or repair braincells that host the information. information theory suggests that the information if preserved can be retrieved.

[DK0526]

@gamecarnivor yes if you put some money (say 300$) in a index account and were frozen then after several hundred years you'd probably be rich via compounding interest.

[DK0526]

@ARandomCanadian its 28,000$ at the Cryonics institute....and term life insurance makes it very very cheap...think 20$ a month or less...check into it!

[ARandomCanadian]

@gamecarnivor meh, it's worth it I think. Even if they don't succeed at reviving you I'd still like to pay 50000$ or whatever to see what the future looks like, you're gonna die anyways.

[jityr2]

Cockroaches can freeze and though out unharmed. If only microbiologists could find the gene that produces that kind of information and use it to our advantage. Or maybe the gene that allows bears to hybernate. Or the gene that allows dry plant seeds to remain dormant.

[gamecarnivor]

300 a year could add up

[pkScary]

Thanks for your reply. I wish you guys the best of luck - I plan on going into cryostasis myself if life extension techniques don't develop quickly enough.