[ExI] Ultra-cryonics

[Eugen Leitl]

On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 09:17:30AM -0400, David Lubkin wrote:
> Eugen wrote:
>
>> Cryonics is currently expensive and unsafe enough.
>> No need to add rockets to that mix.
>         :
>> Why would you want to?
>
> You  and Anders have made an incorrect assumption.  (But, thank you

I think we've made the right assumption: if you're already out there,
you won't need to be suspended. You're mostly likely solid state to
start with, so any "suspension" is instantly reversible. 

> Anders, for answering anyway.)
>
> Grandpa is already out there.

Then, he won't need to be suspended. 

> The scenario is that humans have settled in the Kuiper belt and then in the

Sorry, not gonna happen. Moon and Mars maybe, everything else, 
it's for solid-state. Monkeys don't travel well.

> Oort cloud. Where the "outside" temperature is colder — or much colder —
> than LN. Plus cosmic rays, dust impacts, isolation, etc.
>
> Perhaps your grandkids never liked you anyway, and would just as soon
> recycle you in the CELSS. Mine are sentimental, or won't get anything in
> my will unless I'm preserved.
>
> Hence: Given the ambient conditions in the Kuiper belt and the Oort cloud,
> how am I suspended and how am I stored?