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Why use cryonics to other stars?
It seems that many space travel enthusiasts support the concept of interstellar travel through the use of hibernation or cryonics technologies. This seeming willingness to jump aboard a star-liner for adventure on far worlds is clearly at odds with the actual number of people signed up for cryonics as a vehicle to see such a future. Today's wanna-be space colonists, while interested in future tech, ignore the opportunities directly under their noses for reaching their bright and glorious intersteller worlds. Why is this so? Any astronauts want to explain why being a cryonaut in the future is good, but signing up for it today is not occurring?
Candice Z: Your answer fails to address the question itself. Nothing was asked about NASA, an agency which would presumably be passe' at best, and most likely wholly obviated by commercialization. While your overview of the current state of cryonics technology bears some slight bearing on the question, are you a space travel advocate and are you one of the people addressed by the question? You do not sound like a space colonist, technologist and sci-fi enthusiast that this question was aimed at, so your perspective is less illuminating than it could otherwise be. Interesting effort and you got your free Answers points, sooo....any others?
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- Candice ZLv 51 decade agoFavorite Answer
NASA does not expect to be capable of safely sending human beings to Mars before the year 2037, so it would be many decades (at least) beyond 2037 before it would be reasonable to contemplate safely sending astronauts to another solar system.
Cryonics is viewed by some as a means of time travel, that is, go into cryostasis and be revived into a future world of high technology. It could be an exciting trip. There are major problems with this view. For one, it is not legal to be cryopreserved by a cryonics organization before a person is legally dead. If someone committed suicide for the purpose of being cryopreserved they would be autopsied, thereby causing damage to the brain. Cryonics organizations do not want people who would commit suicide in order to travel to the future. Additionally, cryonics is unproven. There is reason to believe that future technology may restore people who are cryonically preserved to life, but there is no guarantee that this would happen. As an alternative to burial and cremation, cryonics is a very "pro-life" choice. But as an alternative to life here-and-now, cryonics is a bad bet.
Source(s): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manned_mission_to_Mar... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryonics - 1 decade ago
Easy... because no one wants to be first to travel to a foreign land. They use cryonics so someone else could be the first to "Explore" the other galaxies and potential dangers that lie ahead. Sooooo basically they stay frozen, someone finds a new place and deems it safe and then they wake up and go on vacation in the new galaxy.
