yes LN2 is cheap-ish (about price of milk) but it’s not free. gains you’re talking about only happen when comically large dewars are used, these would have to be custom made for them - meaning nonstandard and not cheap

ah yes “just” 1nm precision scanning. even scanning at resolution of six single carbon-carbon bonds won’t help you after cell walls and everything that was inside were shredded by ice crystals formed, as i think there’s not really suitable cryoprotectant involved, if it’s even developed for human-size tissues. i don’t think it’s a thing, and also freezing rate required would be likely impossible just because of typical human size

as it stands today, moore’s law hit a wall, brain simulation is fantasy tech, and it’ll remain so for considerable time, i’d even say probably forever (humans will have more pressing issues to deal with). copy is not original and maybe it’ll be reassuring to other people, but these other people also are dead by that point so it’s useless. the rest are futurologist noises coming from people who don’t want to admit that they made a religion out of misinterpreted scifi

500 years in the future? mate, would you consider

Early attempts at cryonic preservation were made in the 1960s and early 1970s; most relied on family members to pay for the preservation and ended in failure, with all but one of the corpses cryopreserved before 1973 being thawed and disposed of.[14]

not even single one frozen today will remain so within 70, 100 years, nevermind 500

funeral home doesn’t have recurring expenses per corpse for infinite time

it’s not a gamble, it’s more of a shared belief propagated by people who took scifi way too seriously

power outages at these facilities already happened, but it’s a smaller problem in grand scheme of things. facility of this type promises to keep human meatsicle at 77K effectively forever (because magic tech to revive dead is not coming), for a single payment. this means they’ll simply run out of power/liquid nitrogen money at some point and will have to shut down, and allow everything to thaw

what do you count as tech?

article suggests a form of intense immune response, some sugars can trip these immune system tripwires rather easily. (look up meat allergy) the proper question is, how selective it can get and what are side effects

because platinum sucks, and if you want to get real selective, you can tie together antibody and something like diphtheria toxin, but it’s not chemistry anymore, that’s firmly in biology ballpark

no because your liver makes sugars anyway. however there’s a more limited, more targeted way to deplete blood of select aminoacids that some cancers can’t make (asparaginase can be used this way)

it’s one of these things that sound good and doesn’t work. many such cases

techbros graced everyone else with disruptive, innovative methods of money laundering

I read a lot of “back in my day, there weren’t smartphones” comments whenever the post talks about technology and smartphones, and I feel so left out.

reminder that not everyone is a westerner. my home village only had internet (adsl) like in 2008 or so

are vultures okay tho

it’s probably a bad idea for everybody else, as now there’s a captive tiger, that is one that will be around humans forever, that also already are human meat, which is a suboptimal combination

It’s also a reason why there’s Bill Clinton statue in Prishtinë

it’s nit funny only if it’s your job to clean up after them