[ExI] Ultra-cryonics

David Lubkin lubkin at unreasonable.com
Tue Mar 19 17:16:17 UTC 2013


Eugen wrote:

>What, has it been twenty years already? Time flies.

As I may have posted once, I know the passage of time occurs but
my instincts are to act like it doesn't. What I did decades earlier has
always been as crisp to me as yesterday. And I become impatient
waiting for obvious developments to become reality.

>Oh, it's for a story. Didn't catch that.

I mentioned that in the thread on musical instruments in space.
Any questions I pose for the next while are apt to be for the future
history.

It is hard sf. Some of what I'm working out I plan to also publish
as non-fiction. If you like, think of it as a thought experiment in
what are the least we need in discoveries and new technologies
to be viable indefinitely without any of the inner planets. And
I'm exploring facets of life that have historically been given short
shrift in sf, that would be practical concerns if this future came
to pass.

Cryonics is not important to any planned stories. It's in the
backdrop, as one of the aspects of life out there, alongside
(for instance) the question of avoiding leaky diapers in
micro-gravity.

>Have you read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiasco_(novel)

No. I've never been able to get into Lem.


-- David.




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