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Re:What ever happened to the first cryogenically frozen humans? by LarryMullins on Monday December 19, 2022 @09:41PM (#34060884)
It's in heliocentric orbit, it's getting cooked by solar radiation every day, taking the full brunt of solar flares without a magnetosphere to protect it, etc. If there were a body in the suit, it would surely turn into beef jerky. Or perhaps soup, if the suit can keep the fluids in. All the DNA would be shattered beyond repair by intense gamma radiation.

> but makes a certian amount more logical sense than a dummy in a space suit, huh?

It makes sense as a Heavy Metal reference.

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Re:What ever happened to the first cryogenically frozen humans? by hotpotamus on Monday December 19, 2022 @09:45PM (#34060908)
One potential limitation of cryogenics is that the radio isotopes in your own body will eventually cause too much damage to your DNA since natural repair processes will be offline as well. Obviously the radiation environment in space is much worse.
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Re:What ever happened to the first cryogenically frozen humans? by eftychis on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @12:57AM (#34062111)
That is a good point.
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Re:What ever happened to the first cryogenically frozen humans? by sassy_quat on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @02:44AM (#34062840)
This absence of evidence is proof of a need for genuine study.
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Re:What ever happened to the first cryogenically frozen humans? by rl3 on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @01:42AM (#34062435)
>If there were a body in the suit, it would surely turn into beef jerky.

This isn't necessarily a problem:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34060818

"And even if they could be bothered, the thawed would be a lab experiment, owned by whatever corporation pulled off the magic."

That feeling when you wake up from your secret space cryostasis, only to discover you're the living (?) embodiment of meat, now owned by Arby's.

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