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NASA planning 'suspended animation' cryosleep chamber that lets astronauts hibernate...
mirror.co.uk ^ | 15:16, 16 May 2016 | Jasper Hamill

Posted on 05/16/2016 7:07:18 PM PDT by BenLurkin

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To: BenLurkin

“I can’t let you do that, Dave.”


21 posted on 05/16/2016 10:00:14 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: BenLurkin

OK. Yet bears and other animals are able to hibernate without being frozen. Perhaps we should pursue that path instead...


22 posted on 05/16/2016 10:26:58 PM PDT by Crucial
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To: BenLurkin

Pretty good for a planet on which it’s rare for Joe Citizen to get eight hours a night.


23 posted on 05/16/2016 11:37:36 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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SpaceWorks hopes its hibernation chamber will be used during voyages to Mars.
yeah, that'll happen.
24 posted on 05/17/2016 12:21:59 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

I was going to recomend calling it the Botany Bay.


25 posted on 05/17/2016 11:43:56 AM PDT by Idaho_Cowboy (Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception. - George Orwell)
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To: BenLurkin

Can they test it on me? I could use a good week’s sleep!


26 posted on 05/17/2016 1:28:09 PM PDT by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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To: BenLurkin

Not a great upside unless you could halt aging. Otherwise you’re just shortening your life, in a sense.


27 posted on 05/17/2016 2:47:43 PM PDT by Mr. Blond
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