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[–] [email protected] 36 points 5 months ago (18 children)

Here's a link to the article in the screenshot, in case anyone else was interested in reading it like I was: https://www.freethink.com/futurology/cryogenically-frozen-humans

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (16 children)

Thanks for this. Quite gruesome, but not at all unexpected. I remember having a conversation with a friend of mine a while back, where I made the argument that water expands when frozen and, since humans are mostly water, freezing a human would crack every vital organ. I'm actually upset to discover I was right.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

This is true, which is why preservation does not involve freezing, except for the bad attempts in the 70s the article talks about, which could never work. The bodies are vitrified, not frozen.

Which still doesn't mean it will work, the technology to revive them doesn't exist, but it doesn't have any freezing issue.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

That actually doesn't sound much better to me, but my understanding of vitrification is minimal, at best. Still cool, though.

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