Re:NASA is bringing cryosleep chambers out of fiction
by lykr0n on Thursday May 24, 2018 @12:10PM
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I think the big use case would be to skip a couple of days or a week at a time. A week living in the real world, a week asleep. You don't miss much and you can effectively double your lifespan.
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Re:NASA is bringing cryosleep chambers out of fiction
by cwkoss on Thursday May 24, 2018 @02:35PM
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I could imagine retirement homes where the residents sleep all week and just wake up for weekends or holidays, allowing them to extend their lifespan to see their descendants grow up.
Re:NASA is bringing cryosleep chambers out of fiction
by dexterdog on Thursday May 24, 2018 @02:08PM
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Or you set a trigger with your fund manager. You put in 100K and tell him to wake you when you have $2m (in today's dollars) or less than $50K.
Re:NASA is bringing cryosleep chambers out of fiction
by qubex on Thursday May 24, 2018 @03:55PM
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I was thinking of this today: enter stasis and set a trigger to emerge only once one’s wealth has compounded to place them within the vaunted ”top 1%” or leave one in cryosleep indefinitely.
Re:NASA is bringing cryosleep chambers out of fiction
by dexterdog on Thursday May 24, 2018 @04:04PM
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Except so many people would do that that it might as well be a death sentence since the cryo fees would eat away at your money faster than it could grow compared to all of the other people in the world.
Re:NASA is bringing cryosleep chambers out of fiction
by krageon on Friday May 25, 2018 @05:38AM
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Cryo fees and compound interest are separate concepts. Just because the second is present, doesn't mean the first one will grow. The opposite is true: When more people want something, you scale up production (or someone else does) and the prices (generally) go down.
Re:NASA is bringing cryosleep chambers out of fiction
by pwneror on Thursday May 24, 2018 @02:25PM
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Cryo API
Re:NASA is bringing cryosleep chambers out of fiction
by kaybe on Thursday May 24, 2018 @12:18PM
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The change will probably be really hard on your body so you don't want to do it that often.
Re:NASA is bringing cryosleep chambers out of fiction
by lookACamel on Friday May 25, 2018 @07:07AM
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Another use case: helping immobile patients who are morbidly obese lose weight.