Since Space Elevator (pbuh) left this forsaken place, i thought people might like some future tech stuff. And instead of just scrambling stuff together, why not focus on the big one? Eternal life!
This thread will feature current trends in cryogenics but if anyone cares, future threads will feature other developments.
rt.com/viral/386608-frozen-brain-head-transplant/ >‘We’ll try to bring patients back to life’: Surgeon plans to ‘revive’ frozen human brains by 2020 >The first human head transplant will take place in less than a year, to be followed by the world’s first transplantation of a cryogenically preserved brain in three years’ time. That’s according to ambitious neurosurgeon, Sergio Canavero. >“We will try to bring the first of the company’s patients back to life, not in 100 years. As soon as the first human head transplant has taken place, i.e., no later than in 2018, we will be able to attempt to reawaken the first frozen head,” he said. Canavero said the US cryonics company Alcor Life Extension Foundation could be a potential source of frozen brains, although the company told Gizmodo that it had had no contact with the doctor. >“It is not yet possible to revive human brains cryopreserved with present methods. Revival of today’s cryonics patients will require future repair by highly advanced future technology, such as molecular nanotechnology,” the company said in a statement.
Who are Alcor Life Extension Foundation? alcor.org/
President & CEO Max More literally Bond tier villain looking transhumanist, biohacker summit talk with his twink goon youtube.com/watch?v=nshGHUFpiWU
>The Alcor Life Extension Foundation is the world leader in cryonics, cryonics research, and cryonics technology. Cryonics is the science of using ultra-cold temperature to preserve human life with the intent of restoring good health when technology becomes available to do so. Alcor is a non-profit organization located in Scottsdale, Arizona, founded in 1972.
>$200,000.00 Whole Body Cryopreservation ($115,000 to the Patient Care Trust, $60,000 for cryopreservation, $25,000.00 to the CMS Fund). >$ 80,000.00 Neurocryopreservation (only your head) ($25,000 to the Patient Care Trust, $30,000 for cryopreservation, $25,000.00 to the CMS Fund). you can take your pets too!
Scientists Transplanted A Rat’s Head Onto Another Rat, Hoping to Replicate It in Humans >Now, scientists from China have made a remarkable breakthrough in transplanting the head of one organism onto that of another. >For their work, they took the head of a smaller rat and attached it to a bigger one, creating what is effectively a two-headed rat. It is important to note that the rat did not survive long-term, but that was never the goal. The team knew the rat would not live long, as there are still a lot of technical and scientific issues that need to be resolved before we can successfully perform head transplants on living organisms and have them survive. >The goal of this particular experiment was simple: the scientists wanted to know if they could successfully transplant a head without damaging the brain due to excessive blood loss. And they did. To do this, they had to keep the blood circulation going during the transplant by attaching the donor rat’s blood vessels to the other rat.
Thomas Martin
Eternal life is impractical and unnatural.
Robert Nguyen
I imagined it could be fun for a while. But eventually you must get bored.
Daniel Gonzalez
Ark of the immortals: The future-proof plan to freeze out death >In Comfort, Texas, a disaster-proof complex will house 50,000 frozen people with plans to bring them back from the dead – and will help others to stay alive
>“WE’RE taking people to the future!” says architect Stephen Valentine, as we drive through two gigantic gates into a massive plot of land in the middle of the sleepy, unassuming town that is Comfort, Texas. The scene from here is surreal. A lake with a newly restored wooden gazebo sits empty, waiting to be filled. A pregnant zebra strolls across a nearby field. And out in the distance some men in cowboy hats are starting to clear a huge area of shrub land. Soon the first few bricks will be laid here, marking the start of a scientific endeavour like no other.
>Successful freezing and rewarming of tissue sections by US team avoids damage by infusing the them with magnetic nanoparticles, paving way for entire organs
>Scientists have succeeded in cryogenically freezing and rewarming sections of heart tissue for the first time, in an advance that could pave the way for organs to be stored for months or years.
>If the technique scales up to work for entire organs – and scientists predict it will – it could save the lives of thousands who die each year waiting for transplants.
>The work is being hailed as a major development in the field of cryopreservation as it marks the first time that scientists have been able to rapidly rewarm large tissue samples without them shattering, cracking or turning to a pulp. The US team overcame this challenge by infusing the tissue with magnetic nanoparticles, which could be excited in a magnetic field, generating a rapid and uniform burst of heat.
Ayden Bell
i don't thikn future life will be representive of current life at all.
Jason Morris
>canavero
I want to become immortal as much as the next guy but that "surgeon" is a legit scammer.
James Jenkins
I think Sup Forums needs a futurism general, /fg/ or /fug/. the fields of science are related and broader discussion can lead to creative posts
Liam Kelly
i know, i juts used him as a meme picture to draw attention, maybe that wasn't such a good idea.
>Researchers have also devoted much effort to avoiding the deep freeze altogether, by perfusing organs with a cooled cocktail of preservatives, oxygen, antioxidants and the like. In a sense this is tantamount to keeping an organ on its own dedicated life-support system. Last year Korkut Uygun of Harvard Medical School, in collaboration with Dr Toner, demonstrated that a combination of cooling and perfusion could preserve a rat liver for four days.
Elijah Rodriguez
Yes. To each their own.
Lincoln Bailey
TIMESHIP FTFW
Caleb Campbell
isn't it weird? Futurism, transhumanism seem to be huge red flag for people. It's an obscure topic, scientist don't want to talk about it because research isn't "there" yet and normies chun away because you don't talk about death.
And i would never try to rope anyone in it, i's just weird to me that anyone wouldn't want to live and end their lifes on their own terms
Ayden Harris
I thought this picture was of James Cromwell giving a buzzcut to the big bang theory guy
Jack Brooks
Kek I was hoping I wasn't the only one who saw that.
Andrew Nguyen
I used to want to live forever as a kid, but desu now the thought of living forever stresses me out more than the thought of dying.
I think there's something really creepy about those 1%er guys who eat ridiculous amounts of vitamins all day and spends millions on life extension technology. There's something really wrong about how they just haven't learnt to let go, and yet they have that much power.
Andrew Jones
Wait, if they are frozen then they are dead, how the fuck will someone bring them back?
Easton Hill
i miss Space Elevator. ;_;
here's some OC I made based on other infographics
Cooper Adams
>dead not quite, there is a sweetspot between you heart stops beating and your brains decomposing, once you are dead, the the cryogenic company will preserve your body with the brain still intact
Kevin Brown
dumping other based infographics
Juan Rogers
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Adam Davis
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Adam Young
Wow, how is that even possible? Is this project cheap/accessible? I'm in kek
Colton Hill
This one is relevant to life extension
Joseph Sanders
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Brandon Sanchez
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Nolan White
some OC on gengineering babies
Jordan Kelly
That's pretty fucking neat, has any company or NASA said when they will do it?
Levi Kelly
>Overpriced Corpsesicle Factory Good luck with that.
Sebastian Diaz
thanks for believing in the dream
this is crazy, but this sums it up pretty nicely (even thought it's super vague and just a sci-fi concept). But yea, you would get cryopreserved, hundreds if not thousands years later you would be brougt back to life in a cybernetic body. thanks for sharing
Alexander Phillips
Sounds like a p&d company that's out to slurp up as much cash as possible before the class actions start hitting.
James Bailey
That's literally the doc from the beginning of the phantom pain, isn't it?
Julian Smith
yes and no, he denies it. but probably kojima just being a psychic as usual
what you got to lose?
Henry Cooper
Not necessarily. Eventually tech would be made to bring them back.
But this seems like alcor shilling Why not shill for one of the less costly cryonics options OP? cryonic institute is wayyyy cheaper .
Chase Baker
Nothing because I'm not one of the goys that's investing in it. Looks cool don't get me wrong, but I won't shell out money for it if I die before they prove it works.
Thomas Bailey
>what you got to lose? A shitton of money that your heirs could instead have used to better their place in society and make it more likely for your genes to be passed on further. Was that really a serious question?
Nicholas Ramirez
I'm real excited for the head transplant of that retard.
Would be super interesting if it works out.
But shouldn't it be a huge problem if the head rejects the body? Like an organ transplant?
Julian Sullivan
Its probably because they have that power. They're used to being able to do fucking anything they want. They probably find it abhorrent that death is out of their control.
Jeremiah Thomas
>shill lol no, i haven't looked to deep into any of the companies, iam still looking what the future holds, maybe some insane advanced cryo company comes along decades from now
>but I won't shell out money for it if I die before they prove it works
this doesn't even make sense, you don't need to invest now, you can do it before you croak, also that what works? it's already feasible technology.
>A shitton of money that your heirs could instead have used cryonic institue asks for 28k, if this is your life savings your heirs need to survive, i guess thats that
Camden Murphy
Space Elevator was a bunch of different people. They assumed the moniker whenever they had enough research and sources to dump, It could have been you this time, but I guess this works.
