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I've learned that if there's ever an apocalypse, I need to find Keanu Reeves.
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:. And if anybody wants to fight Jackie Chan, I'm gonna fight you, the monster you clearly are. https://lifestyle.clickhole.com/4-times-jackie-chan-wept-when-he-was-forced-to-beat-up-1825123040
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chitoryu12 posted:Keanu Reeves got so trained for John Wick that he's basically a professional 3-gun shooter now. The most impressive thing to me is him sweeping up his own brass.
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Chuck Buried Treasure posted:Is that you, John Wayne? Is this me? 12 loving years I've been on these forums and someone finally understands where my username comes from. Thank you
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Oh yeah, Halle Berry went through similar training for John Wick 3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xa2RJPrY2Og So that's two people to join up with in the apocalypse.
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Jun 11, 2019 19:34
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Just LOL if you dont blow your brains out when the apocalypse happens.
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Where can I go shooting guns with hot chicks watching me, and how much does it cost?
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Well you can't freeze the *entire* body because of accidental zombies
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Ada posted:I've learned that if there's ever an apocalypse, I need to find Keanu Reeves. Finding Keanu Reeves would improve most days, not just the apocalypse
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It would be funny that if in the future they could bring you back to life but only if your head was still attached to your body.
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Does the technology even preserves tissues better than just sticking the head inside a fiord or something?
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The very rapid freezing from liquid nitrogen makes it so that the water-ice crystals form as multiple smaller crystals, instead of larger ones that rip the cells apart as they freeze. If this matters at all is purely hypothetical until we can actually revive people. I suspect the technology will demand complex pre treatment before freezing \ while dying, when it eventually exists. As it is right now it's just a huge scam, though I imagine for the people dying, it might be more of a 'what do I have to lose?' proposition.
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SubNat posted:The very rapid freezing from liquid nitrogen makes it so that the water-ice crystals form as multiple smaller crystals, instead of larger ones that rip the cells apart as they freeze. And starting the process before you die means there's a good chance that the process itself would kill you. Which is problematic, legally. Azathoth Prime has a new favorite as of 22:30 on Jun 12, 2019 |
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By popular demand posted:Does the technology even preserves tissues better than just sticking the head inside a fiord or something? There is a great memoir by someone who worked at Alcor in the early days that suggests their quality control is not all that clients might hope for. Actually, there are two: Freezing People Is (Not) Easy, by Bob Nelson, and Frozen: A True Story, by Larry Johnson. I’m pretty sure it was Johnson’s book that tells the story of baseball legend Ted Williams’s head being balanced on a tuna can, and Nelson’s book that tells the story of the dewars (big glass jugs) that cracked and had all the nitrogen boil out, but it’s been a while since I read them and could be misremembering. Edit to add: it is Johnson with the tuna can allegations, as discussed by ESPN here. Both of these books are good reading if you like train wrecks. To the below, a lot of the cryonics gang are atheists. A surprising number are obscure science fiction writers. Charles Platt, for example, is a tireless cryonics apologist all over the Internet. AlbieQuirky has a new favorite as of 22:40 on Jun 12, 2019 |
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AlbieQuirky posted:There is a great memoir by someone who worked at Alcor in the early days that suggests their quality control is not all that clients might hope for. I get the feeling that these places are just above the "Rapture Pet Insurance" companies. They only hire atheists, and you pay them to take care of your pets once the Rapture whisks you away. Seems like the perfect scam. e: the rapture insurance companies only hire atheists. I have no idea about the hiring policies of the frozen head companies.
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Azathoth Prime posted:I get the feeling that these places are just above the "Rapture Pet Insurance" companies. They only hire atheists, and you pay them to take care of your pets once the Rapture whisks you away. Seems like the perfect scam. That's brilliant. The way an Evangelical will accept an atheist.
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AlbieQuirky posted:There is a great memoir by someone who worked at Alcor in the early days that suggests their quality control is not all that clients might hope for. Ah, here it is: https://thebaffler.com/salvos/everybody-freeze-pein
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Doctors stunned to find hundreds of tiny balls inside teenage girlquote:A teenager addicted to bubble tea was left in agony after drinking too much of the flavoured East Asian milk drink.
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Dammit, why couldn’t the cure have been a strong diuretic? I could have made a bubble pee joke. That would have been better, comedically.
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Veni Vidi Ameche! posted:Dammit, why couldn’t the cure have been a strong diuretic? I could have made a bubble pee joke. That would have been better, comedically. As some one who in the last year had a stint in their genitals, fuuuuuuuuuuuck you for that flash back of horror and pain
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Tapioca is digestible, though? Was some company making bubble tea pearls out of plastic or some other indigestible substance to save money?
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Jabor posted:Tapioca is digestible, though? There are theories the company making these particular pearls used additives that made the starch even harder to digest, or that the girl had some digestive tract disorder and couldn't handle that many at once.
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Burkion posted:As some one who in the last year had a stint in their genitals, fuuuuuuuuuuuck you for that flash back of horror and pain
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Jun 13, 2019 10:46
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We were all thinking it. You were just the only one saying it
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AlbieQuirky posted:There is a great memoir by someone who worked at Alcor in the early days that suggests their quality control is not all that clients might hope for. Zereth posted:I saw an article somewhere claiming that, yeah, they frequently don't even not gently caress up the primitive and probably grossly inadequate techniques we have right now. During the initial freezing stage, that is. That's only part of the shitshow that's cryonics. Even if they do get the remains frozen, they can still gently caress things up. It's been a while since I last went reading, but facilities have had freezer failures and bodies go missing.
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Milo and POTUS posted:We were all thinking it. You were just the only one saying it
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Why would some future society wanna revive some dude? Isn't the brain and your mind a complex mess of firing neurons, a soup of chemicals, and some meat? You think you they can bring you back from some chunk of ice? Good luck dude.
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I mean if scientists today could revive some random dude from ancient Rome or whatever, they surely would for a trove of anthropological knowledge. Not that we'll have the technology anytime soon.
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doverhog posted:Why would some future society wanna revive some dude? Isn't the brain and your mind a complex mess of firing neurons, a soup of chemicals, and some meat? You think you they can bring you back from some chunk of ice? Good luck dude. Transmetropolitan had a fun take on what happens even if they DO have the technology to revive cryogenically frozen heads in the distant future.
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Azathoth Prime posted:I get the feeling that these places are just above the "Rapture Pet Insurance" companies. Misread this as 'Raptor Pet Insurance' and couldn't figure out if it insured your pet raptor or if it insured your pet against raptor attacks.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Transmetropolitan had a fun take on what happens even if they DO have the technology to revive cryogenically frozen heads in the distant future. Well, don't leave us hanging!
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artsy fartsy posted:Well, don't leave us hanging! Well fine. They end up entering a society that's both familiar and completely alien in all the worst ways and almost immediately become shocked and traumatised, and society considers its job done by fulfilling the ancient pact then kicks them out onto the street to fend for themselves since everything they ever owned is long gone, and they end up just yet another kind of transient undesirable in a world that's already trying to ignore plenty of its own problems.
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and the claw won! posted:I mean if scientists today could revive some random dude from ancient Rome or whatever, they surely would for a trove of anthropological knowledge. Not that we'll have the technology anytime soon. How much would a random person even know about anything? Would one nowadays random person be able to tell how most things, hell, anything works, even considering we can search for something online?
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Samuringa posted:How much would a random person even know about anything? Would one nowadays random person be able to tell how most things, hell, anything works, even considering we can search for something online? Depends on what kind of knowledge you're looking for. Not everything was written down as it was considered just something everyone knew in their daily lives, like exactly how you would cook a particular meal or bake bread without a strictly written recipe.
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Most importantly you can ask them if they heard the Good News.
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Just for one example I'm pretty sure nearly everything we know about ancient boats and ships is basically guesswork, since people at the time didn't bother describing them since they could assumed everyone knew what a boat looked like the same way we assume everyone knows what a car looks like.
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Zanzibar Ham posted:Most importantly you can ask them if they heard the Good News. lol
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Samuringa posted:How much would a random person even know about anything? Would one nowadays random person be able to tell how most things, hell, anything works, even considering we can search for something online? It's not about knowing how things work so much as about knowing... IDK. "What does it mean to 'swipe right'? Why was that a positive thing?" "Did the 'thin blue line' refer to all of the police, or just the Sheriff's Departments?" "Why was diet coke viewed as being effeminate?" Social poo poo that people from the period know about through cultural osmosis but which isn't likely to be documented in any enduring form, and which future historians are likely to come across only as passing references in surviving sources.
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