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Posted: Sep 16 2011 01:45 pm

Lots of text on it here, but we're one step closer to conning pizza delivery guys into delivering to I.C. Weiner

http://singularityhub.com/2011/09/14/aint-no-science-fiction-suspended-animation-is-fda-approved-and-heading-to-clinical-trials/

Posted: Sep 16 2011 03:28 pm

I suppose it could be useful for medical purposes, but I would like to see them use it for space travel as well.

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atomjacked wrote:

I suppose it could be useful for medical purposes, but I would like to see them use it for space travel as well.

Whoa there Skid Ro, they've got to invent actual space travel first.

But I agree completely. I'm not sure if it'd be safe to rely on something this temperamental to achieve long distance space flight though. If they can only do it for 60 to 90 minutes at a time right now (and from what I gathered, it sounds like the method they use to do it would be extremely risky), then can you imagine floating through space under that sort of effect, for 60 to 90 years?

Posted: Sep 18 2011 11:41 am

Clearly, there would need to be some advances made in both spaceship technology and suspended animation for it to be used on long distance space travel.

On another note, I wonder what the experience of being not dead, but not alive, for 60-90 minutes will be like for human beings who get put in suspended animation. Will they see visions like some people do when they "die" and come back in hospitals, etc?