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Main - Craziness Domain 二番: Kuchi Kopi's Bar - Cryonics: Gambling or Not? |
Is cryonics considered a form of gambling? | |
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Danielle |
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Miracles Happen When you believe... Level: 254 Posts: 13582/25311 EXP: 263882129 Next: 901196 Since: 07-16-12 From: Albany, NY OS: Windows 98 Last post: 140 days Last view: 140 days |
You know on Futurama, Fry froze himself 1000 years into the future? I always wondered if cryonics would technically be gambling as you'd never know if you'd get a good or bad future
Then again, if you did get a bad future, would they even bother to unfreeze you? You could pay to be frozen for say 50 years but get unfrozen in like 4400 by some alien civilization from a planet like one of Alpha Centauri's "Miracles happen, when you believe..."
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Nicole |
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Goddess of the Apocalypse Level: 199 Posts: 11070/14042 EXP: 111487395 Next: 1649689 Since: 01-03-12 From: Boston, MA Last post: 251 days Last view: 250 days |
♥11070 ✿4489 ★16 I feel like, as far as cryonics go, it only makes sense if you're terminally ill and are going to die anyway... the process is probably going to be irreversable, but if you do wake up, it means some highly advanced civilization is bothering to revive people from the distant past to heal them, so it's probably a good future?
I'd say it's a form of gambling, though, just because the odds are so poor. (Like, freezing brain tissue destroys it; most cryonics people I see seem to hope that some future supercomputer could use the frozen pattern data to revive their consciousness in a simulation) |
Epele |
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The Sorceress. Boing~ Level: 235 Posts: 17196/20774 EXP: 200660450 Next: 1265442 Since: 01-01-12 From: UK Last post: 835 days Last view: 3 hours |
Freeze? Nah. Pass.
As Nicole said, the dangers of it. The world could always use more heroes! |
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