Scientists are reviving a mind bending sci-fi idea of putting astronauts into coma like hibernation to survive deep space. It sounds like the future, and turning humans into “sleeping passengers” is still far from reality.
Scientists are reviving a mind bending sci-fi idea of putting astronauts into coma like hibernation to survive deep space. It sounds like the future, and turning humans into “sleeping passengers” is still far from reality.
Any chance they can just mind wipe and copy. Then send clones to be aged as needed, then install memories? Then you can have smaller ships.
cup-of-tea-76 on
People in a coma require constant care and even after they awake need months if not years of physical therapy
It is a ridiculous thought, the only alternative is finding travel that defies the laws physics as we know it
Fabulous_Soup_521 on
How would that help with the radiation? Space is an unfriendly place.
funklab on
Can they put me in a coma for a 12 hour flight to Asia?
Because I’m totally up for that.
LungHeadZ on
So the plot to the film ‘passengers’.
ledow on
If it ever works reliably, you’ll see it in your local hospital LONG before you’ll see it in space.
Just being able to buy people time to treat them properly would make many procedures far simpler and more successful. We already do it there to so extent, and people are put in induced comas for certain reasons. But… they’re still just ageing and operating normally and reliant on regular food, oxygen, etc. under that type of coma, so it is worthless for the sci-fi space-travel reasons that we want it for.
But if we ever invent a way to “halt” the body successfully… medicine has far more use of it than space travel ever would, and it would be the safest testing ground on which to do it first. If anything goes wrong… oh, look, a bunch of doctors and experts on-hand in a medical environment.
When we’ve cracked it and medics are routinely using it… then you can translate it to space. Not the other way around.
ottopivnr on
cryosleep is not mind-bending, it’s just hard. it’s also like the most common sci-fi trope there is whenever non-ftl travel is described.
AVeryFineUsername on
As anyone who has done physical therapy with people who have been in a coma or bed ridden for an extended period of time this is a massively stupid ide
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Any chance they can just mind wipe and copy. Then send clones to be aged as needed, then install memories? Then you can have smaller ships.
People in a coma require constant care and even after they awake need months if not years of physical therapy
It is a ridiculous thought, the only alternative is finding travel that defies the laws physics as we know it
How would that help with the radiation? Space is an unfriendly place.
Can they put me in a coma for a 12 hour flight to Asia?
Because I’m totally up for that.
So the plot to the film ‘passengers’.
If it ever works reliably, you’ll see it in your local hospital LONG before you’ll see it in space.
Just being able to buy people time to treat them properly would make many procedures far simpler and more successful. We already do it there to so extent, and people are put in induced comas for certain reasons. But… they’re still just ageing and operating normally and reliant on regular food, oxygen, etc. under that type of coma, so it is worthless for the sci-fi space-travel reasons that we want it for.
But if we ever invent a way to “halt” the body successfully… medicine has far more use of it than space travel ever would, and it would be the safest testing ground on which to do it first. If anything goes wrong… oh, look, a bunch of doctors and experts on-hand in a medical environment.
When we’ve cracked it and medics are routinely using it… then you can translate it to space. Not the other way around.
cryosleep is not mind-bending, it’s just hard. it’s also like the most common sci-fi trope there is whenever non-ftl travel is described.
As anyone who has done physical therapy with people who have been in a coma or bed ridden for an extended period of time this is a massively stupid ide