Human hibernation has made some strides recently. I think a year or so ago a Wired mag article said the only significant unsolved problem is shivering. They have a cocktail of drugs that makes hibernation possible apart from the fact that people shiver at low temps.

If they solve this, I will gladly prefer to be shipped as cargo on a sail boat or airship so long as someone tends to a heart monitor to ensure a few heartbeats per min or whatever is still happening. No more Gestappo airport security, stresses of delayed flights, screaming babies, people eating Camembert cheese within 5 meters of you. You age at like ⅓ the rate in hibernation (or something like that). I’d gladly trade a week of reduced useful lifetime in exchange for a later death (experiencing more of the future than otherwise possible). The idea of being able to easily flip the middle finger to Boeing would also be a nice perk. (#boycottBoeing)

  • 0x4E4F@infosec.pubEnglish
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    1 year ago

    The whole thing sounds like it would be better as a writing prompt than anything like a practical solution to anything. People need to go back to writing science fiction instead of putting out stuff like this.

    Exactly.

    This is just stupid IMO, if I read this in an SF novel, I’m dropping the novel, not even reading it to the end. We have online conferences, where people don’t even need to be present in the same room, but go through all this just to travel to another place 🤨… it just feels stupid.

    • averyminya@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      I don’t think it’s stupid to have it as a viable option.

      Though, that also doesn’t mean that I’d use it. Nor do I think its effects against airline emissions to be very effective, unless we’re making the billi-millionaires exclusively use it.

      • 0x4E4F@infosec.pubEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Yes, my thoughs exactly… they’re the ones that travel in private jets daily, yet we’re the ones that have to take the high road… excuse me for not caring.