Cryogenics is the freezing of the body for several years and then the reawakening. It happens In Austin Powers. In the 60’s. He’s arch enemy gets frozen. And he gets frozen so he can be reawakened when the enemy returms. The reawakeing has several stages. Warm goo warms him up and then he gets showered dried and has to urinate out all the excess water. Then he can go. It does not happen in reality and is a little impossible. No one can freeze then wake up.
Xeltran1 on
April 17th, 2008 12:26 pm
If you mean making metal cold so it can last longer then yes. If you mean freezing people and waking them up after a long period the probally not.
wirledpeas on
April 19th, 2008 10:22 am
Cryogenics is not what the first responder is talking about. Generally speaking, cryogenics is the science of “very low temperatures.” My guess is that you are asking about *Cryonics* - the application of cryogenics to organic matter for the sake of perservation. In that case, the point is to lower the temperature of a person or animals’s (deceased) body to such a point that all cellular activity ceases. In this sense, yes - cryonics works. We can lower the temperature of a body to such a point that, we think, it can be preserved forever. Why would we want that? Some people think that by preserving their bodies, they can be thawed at some future point when *other, still-undiscovered* science can bring them back to life. No one believes that thawing the bodies by itself will “reanimate” them. PEople who buy into cryonics simply believe that science will reach a point at which other procedures will be able to bring them back.
Cryogenics is the freezing of the body for several years and then the reawakening. It happens In Austin Powers. In the 60’s. He’s arch enemy gets frozen. And he gets frozen so he can be reawakened when the enemy returms. The reawakeing has several stages. Warm goo warms him up and then he gets showered dried and has to urinate out all the excess water. Then he can go. It does not happen in reality and is a little impossible. No one can freeze then wake up.
If you mean making metal cold so it can last longer then yes. If you mean freezing people and waking them up after a long period the probally not.
Cryogenics is not what the first responder is talking about. Generally speaking, cryogenics is the science of “very low temperatures.” My guess is that you are asking about *Cryonics* - the application of cryogenics to organic matter for the sake of perservation. In that case, the point is to lower the temperature of a person or animals’s (deceased) body to such a point that all cellular activity ceases. In this sense, yes - cryonics works. We can lower the temperature of a body to such a point that, we think, it can be preserved forever. Why would we want that? Some people think that by preserving their bodies, they can be thawed at some future point when *other, still-undiscovered* science can bring them back to life. No one believes that thawing the bodies by itself will “reanimate” them. PEople who buy into cryonics simply believe that science will reach a point at which other procedures will be able to bring them back.