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Allero@lemmy.today 4 months agoYes, it is expensive, as your freezer has to be set at temperatures below -80°C/-112°F, down to -196°C/-321°F, and maintained this way.
This requires expensive equipment and draws insane amounts of power.
There is currently no way to do it on a budget.
If you read the article that explains it this is incorrect. Once it’s set up it requires no power, only liquid nitrogen. So it’s black out proof too.
You’re not ‘frozen’ you’re ‘vitrified’, the main difference being your cells don’t get damaged (as much)
Also there is currently a way to do it on a budget, see aforementioned article.
(basically you can do it with a life insurance plan of around 40 a month if you’re reasonably young).
cordlesslamp@lemmy.today 4 months ago
Launch the capsule into space in an orbit around earth that’s always obscure from the sun?
Not a “budget” option but definitely a hell lot cheaper in the long run (decades, or even centuries).
madcaesar@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Even better, just incinerate the them and tell them they’ll be floating in space!
archomrade@midwest.social 4 months ago
TIL things still get hot in space under direct sunlight. I always assumed space would be cold even in sunlight but apparently not.
anyway, I would think you could still be in a sunlit orbit as long as you had a reflective shield for shading. You’ll probably still need power to maintain temps and monitor status, so solar energy would still be helpful.
CommissarVulpin@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Fun fact! During the Apollo flights to and from the Moon, the spacecraft would perform “Passive Thermal Control” or “barbecue roll” where it would rotate around its long axis about once per hour, to distribute the thermal load from the sun and keep one side from heating up too much
Allero@lemmy.today 4 months ago
Is there such an orbit? That should be an orbit with a period of 1 year, which is far outside Earth’s sphere of gravitational influence.
NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Yup! Larange point 2, where we parked the JWST!
Zink@programming.dev 4 months ago
You could just attach their frozen heads to the dark side of the Webb telescope if they can afford it!
Allero@lemmy.today 4 months ago
Imagine an operation to retrieve those heads