[extropy-chat] War injuries and cold

[Keith Henson]

At 07:14 AM 7/15/2006 -0400, you wrote:

>I've been aware of this work for the last few months.  Interesting that it 
>is largely the military that is funding it.  If they put people with 
>battlefield injuries into suspended animation to allow for extended repair 
>procedures the body bag count is likely to decrease.

This has been known for a long time.

"Medical

During the operations, several wounded British soldiers had to spend hours 
in the cold before receiving medical aid; although, famously, no British 
soldiers evacuated to medical aid stations died. Many recovered beyond what 
medicine of the time thought possible, and subsequent theories have 
suggested that this was due to the extreme cold (similar anecdotal tales 
had originated during the bitter winter fighting of the Korean War)."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falklands_War

Keith Henson