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Originally posted by yuefo
People love any excuse to bash her. And I love the 2 media sources (so reliable) and the "friend" who supplied the info, the "pal", and the "source." Gimme me a break. Bash away, she's a lot tougher than any of her anonymous internet critics here and elsewhere. And she's a lot richer. And she a lot more talented. And she's a lot better looking. Bash away. She couldn't care less.
Originally posted by yuefo
People love any excuse to bash her. And I love the 2 media sources (so reliable) and the "friend" who supplied the info, the "pal", and the "source." Gimme me a break. Bash away, she's a lot tougher than any of her anonymous internet critics here and elsewhere. And she's a lot richer. And she a lot more talented. And she's a lot better looking. Bash away. She couldn't care less.
Cryonicists believe that people can be frozen immediately after death and reanimated later when the cure for what ailed them is found. To see the flaw in this system, thaw out a can of frozen strawberries. During freezing, the water within each cell expands, crystallizes, and ruptures the cell membranes. When defrosted, all the intracellular goo oozes out, turning your strawberries into runny mush. This is your brain on cryonics.
Cryonicists recognize this detriment and turn to nanotechnology for a solution. Microscopic machines will be injected into the defrosting "patient" to repair the body molecule by molecule until the trillions of cells are restored and the person can be resuscitated. Every religion needs its gods, and this scientistic vision has a trinity in Robert C. W. Ettinger (The Prospect of Immortality), K. Eric Drexler (Engines of Creation) and Ralph C. Merkle (The Molecular Repair of the Brain), who preach that nanocryonics will wash away the sin of death. These works are built on the premise that if you are cremated or buried, you have zero probability of being resurrected--cryonics is better than everlasting nothingness.
LOL! Please post the video!
I dont care, who cares?
Originally posted by UberL33t
Here's a preview of a good article from Scientific American, and as I mentioned in the OP, the effect freezing has on the cells of the body:
Nano Nonsense and Cryonics
Cryonicists believe that people can be frozen immediately after death and reanimated later when the cure for what ailed them is found. To see the flaw in this system, thaw out a can of frozen strawberries. During freezing, the water within each cell expands, crystallizes, and ruptures the cell membranes. When defrosted, all the intracellular goo oozes out, turning your strawberries into runny mush. This is your brain on cryonics.
Wood frogs survive long periods in a deep freeze. Can people do the same?
They call them frogsicles, though they’re partially liquid inside. “Basically, the body turns into a syrupy mass,” Ken Storey says. As far as the frog is concerned, this is nothing out of the ordinary. Like a handful of other creatures, the common wood frog, Rana sylvatica, is a biological conundrum. It spends its winters interned in subzero sleep, its tissues steel-rigid, and revives in the spring raring to go. It’s the Rip van Winkle of the animal world.
Ice crystallizing in the frog’s body cavities draws some of the water from the cells in the flesh and organs. This further concentrates glucose inside the cells, turning it into an antifreeze that keeps the remaining water from solidifying. (Commercial antifreeze is made of a sugar alcohol similar to glucose, called ethylene glycol.) With the antifreeze in its cells, a frog can remain in a torpid state until spring, when its metabolism whirs back to life. “It goes brain dead for a few months, then has little froggy thoughts again,” Ken says.
In 1966 a Japanese researcher replaced blood with glycerol to reduce ice formation in cat brains cooled to -20ºC. After 45 days with no blood circulation at -20ºC the revived cat brains demonstrated normal-looking EEG activity7
Cryonics practice has long sought to minimize ice formation by perfusing cryonics
subjects with anti-freeze compounds known as cryoprotectants, traditionally glycerol. As
of 2007 both of the major cryonics organizations doing cryoprotectant perfusions (Alcor
Life Extension Foundation and the Cryonics Institute) claim to have eliminated ice
formation in the brain by the use of vitrification solution, but make no such claim for
other organs or tissues16,17.