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We don't have the technology necessary to revive cryogenized beings yet.
Sorry for sounding snarky, I mean this in a friendly way: which part of "Impossible Project Ideas" don't you understand? For that matter, contrast the last three words of my comment with the last word of yours ;-)
Also, if you want to get all technical, we do have technology necessary to revive cryogenized beings, just not for any kind of being. (Hint: for some kinds of cryogenized being the level of technology necessary for reviving is just "drop the ice cube in a puddle of rain water".)
You can do it with organisms that don't need anti-ice crystal chemicals. Once you however inject that highly poisinous stuff we don't have yet any way to remove it.
Correct, as far as I know. Note that the "idea" did not mention that the dog was to be cryogenized using the poisonous stuff we have right now. (I.e., one "solution", or part of it, might be to invent a non-poisonous anti-crystal substance or procedure.)
Anyway, the point of my "suggestion" was not that this would be some kind of "least impossible" idea, nor necessarily the most useful one. I'm not sure if you noticed, but I entered several proposals, all of which are very unoriginal. Although they are serious suggestions in the spirit of the post, I picked those in particular as a kind of humorous comment to the five-step outline of the post: All three "ideas" have in fact been discussed... often... around here, and pretty popular in theory. The "comment" is that finding worthy impossible things to do is trivial, and putting that as the first two steps in a five-step list of "how to do the impossible" is somewhat silly, kind of an excuse not to reach the hard steps. (Humorously enough, one of the ideas is "Do everything on the final list that gets more than 10 upvotes"; as far as I can tell, nothing got 10 votes.)