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Hello fellow Far Side fans!
About this community and how I post the comic strip… Many moons ago, I would ask my Dad to save the newspaper for me everyday so I could read my favorite comic strips and one of those was The Far Side. These days of course you find just about anything online including www.thefarside.com where they post several comics a day and I repost them here. Just to note, the date you see in my posts is not the initial release date, but the date they were posted on the website.
The Far Side is a single-panel comic created by Gary Larson and syndicated by Chronicle Features and then Universal Press Syndicate, which ran from December 31, 1979, to January 1, 1995 (when Larson retired as a cartoonist). Its surrealistic humor is often based on uncomfortable social situations, improbable events, an anthropomorphic view of the world, logical fallacies, impending bizarre disasters, (often twisted) references to proverbs, or the search for meaning in life… Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Far_Side
Hope you enjoy and feel free to contribute to the community with art, cool stuff about the author, tattoos, toys and anything else, as long it’s The Far Side!
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Yep, that's the fun part of this whole cryogenic thing. In order for your body to make it into the 25th century or whatever, it needs to be continuously frozen for multiple centuries.
No defects, no prolonged power outages, no human errors, no your great-great-great-grandchildren deciding they don't want to pay for keeping a guy frozen they never met.
And even if your frozen body somehow makes it to the 25th century and they actually have the technology to restore your freeze-damaged body, you still need whoever's alive then, to care to actually do that thing...
That's why you gotta put the capsules in space
The unmitigated radiation outside the ionosphere would also do just as much if not more damage over time than freezing.
Burial in a nitrogen filled sealed casket on the moon then?
In space you need even more cooling, unless you put them on the dark side of the Moon or somehow keep maintaining an orbit that's always in shadow.
Make sure things are good and cold first, then just send into an orbit around the sun that's at a Lagrange point far enough out to stay cool.
The dark side of the moon still gets just as much light as the other side so not sure why you mentioned that one, but you're right it can be hard to get rid of heat in space if you're producing it.
You are right, not sure why I said "dark side", I was thinking of craters that are in permanent shadow (a bunch of those on poles).
https://waitbutwhy.com/2016/03/cryonics.html
I'm still not gonna do it, but it's not crazy as it sounds (warning: the post I linked to is LONG. if you don't have an hour to kill, don't start reading it)
Well that part is easy! Just run 'em through the vaccuum sealer real fast and you won't have any freezer burn!
And still it is infinitely more plausible at a success than anything else...
Except maybe rejuvenation!
Making your peace with the fact that you are mortal probably still has the highest success rate.
You need to do that either way, cryonics has the goal of extending your life, not make you immortal, obviously. Even if somehow the tech works out, you are still going to die at some point, probably in a traffic accident.
This is why it should be somewhere with low ambient temperature. Like the moon.