Neil deGrasse Tyson is answering questions at reddit:
What are your thoughts on cryogenic preservation and the idea of medically treating aging?
neiltyson 737 points 5 hours ago
A marvelous way to just convince people to give you money. Offer to freeze them for later. I'd have more confidence if we >had previously managed to pull this off with other mammals. Until then I see it as a waste of money. I'd rather enjoy the >money, and then be buried, offering my body back to the flora and fauna of which I have dined my whole life.
Does anyone else have a weird stroke of cognitive dissonance when a trusted source places a low probability on a subject you have placed a high probability on?
What if, hypothetically, no one has made much money freezing people?
What if, hypothetically, it cost $5 to freeze someone indefinitely? What's the cost at which it becomes worth it, even in absence of it working on a whole mammal?
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