Guy calls woman an ugly dumb cunt, gets fired from his job as a…wait for it…a DEI Consultant.
I could see a Hare Krishna Eagles fan barking off at a family.
The appeal of “cheating death”, going to sleep and being reawakened into the future and healthy does sound appealing, until you actually sit down and think about all of the issues. To me, charging people for cryogenics sounds like a scam, unless it specifies that there’s no guarantee that you will ever be unfrozen.
I mean, anyone who read Rip Van Winkle would know how this is a nightmare. And that story is over 300 years old! And that was only a 20 year sleep.
Actually, 225 years old this year, having been published in Washington Irving’s The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon in 1819.
If you really want to get a feel for the hazards of living beyond your appointed span, read about Struldbrugs in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels
But everybody who’s seen Futurama would think that it’s kind of cool.
Shit, math fail this morning.
Not enough caffeine yet.
Except for the almost accidentally using a suicide booth.
Boinking your own grandmother, well, I’m sure that are some people that think that’s fine.
I can honestly say, being off by 75 years mattered not to me at all. Atamasama’s point was that the Rip Van Winkle story about extended sleep was written a long time before cryogenics.
I appreciate that, but I was pretty dumb.
You’re right though, it’s not a new idea.
I saw this article this morning but didn’t read it. I have trouble imagining what could be possibly new or different now that would make this any different than prior cryogenic schemes.
this time it works.
Trust us.
I didn’t realize you were visiting us from 2044!
I must say that I would be surprised if the universe as we knew it still existed in the year 9.5360655002947* 10^5880.
French woman leaves husband for Brat Pitt impersonator and is then scammed out of $850,000.
Yeah perhaps not.
That really doesn’t bother me that much. First of all, if cryogenics really works, you won’t be waking up alone - Hundreds of people will be waking up alongside you, which means that future cultures will have measures in place to re-absorb you into society. And humans can adapt to anything: I know people who were born in mud huts on the Ethiopian highlands with no electricity or running water, and they’ve adapted just fine to smartphones and income tax. So What if you’ll be the future equivalent of a third-world immigrant? Others have done it before.
What does bother me is that it’s bullshit. Anything that’s based on assuming that we’ll know how to do something in the future is bullshit, because we never know where scientific discovery will lead us. Take a person, freeze them, and unfreeze them successfully in 5 years, and then we’ll talk.
Just because someone has done it, that doesn’t mean I want to go through it as well.
The idea of being an anachronism where nothing makes sense and most of what I know is wrong… It’s like being in a Twilight Zone episode.
There’s this too. It’s fringe science at best.
Currently we call them restaurants.
I live in Kentucky. The locals don’t see the humor in your joke, they’re just nodding along.
We’re all trying to find the guy who did this