Timeline for Humanely reducing the human population?
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| Oct 6, 2015 at 21:50 | comment | added | DoubleDouble | @gerrit The better analogy is that we currently have the technology to revive the dead, we just need to figure out the part where they wake up again. | |
| Oct 6, 2015 at 21:43 | comment | added | DoubleDouble | Not saying its impossible, or would not be possible by that far into the future - just afaik I don't think the claim that "The technology exists today" is correct. Unless you can find the solution you are referring to. | |
| Oct 6, 2015 at 21:40 | comment | added | DoubleDouble | The frog case is something the frog does automatically, in nature. I'm not aware of any other animals which we have been able to freeze and successfully thaw, at least not larger than a group of cells. The way I think of it, if we claim that the technology is close because the frog can do it, then we were close to flying in medieval times when we used homing pigeons to deliver messages | |
| Oct 6, 2015 at 21:24 | comment | added | Anixx | @DoubleDouble afaik, this problem has been solved with chemicals. At least, animals were successfully frozen and then revived. | |
| Oct 6, 2015 at 20:14 | comment | added | DoubleDouble | I've asked this question before! .. biology.stackexchange.com/q/27761/9700 - Spoiler Alert, all those who are frozen are dead, unless you can come up with a way to replace all of the water inside the body with something else and then return it to water upon awakening. This technology does not exist today. | |
| Oct 6, 2015 at 15:27 | comment | added | CoffeDeveloper | Frozing a body just alters chemical reactions inside body to a irreversible stadium. DNA chains would still be damaged by radiations but no mechanism to repair them. The thing most similiar to hybernation we could reach in future is an altered metabolism state, note that cancer is still a serious issue for so long times periods and an altered metabolism still need some energy | |
| Oct 6, 2015 at 13:41 | comment | added | Jon Story | @npsf3000 - wait until you're 6 feet from the ground, then just drop the rest of the way. Anyone can survive a 6 foot drop, right? | |
| Oct 6, 2015 at 2:31 | comment | added | NPSF3000 | @gerrit give that "That's like saying that you can fly down a cliff or high building, and that it's just the landing you need to figure out." is entirely doable (see base jumping) then I assume you're agreeing with Alpha3031? | |
| Oct 6, 2015 at 2:03 | comment | added | timuzhti | @gerrit, Well, if it was a infinitely long flight that you don't age in the duration of, I can see many people taking the option. Here's the choice: Enter the freezer and you'll leave the world of problems behind. when and if the problems are solved, you get defrosted. if they don't, you stay there until the heat death of the universe. Is it a good deal? That's up for the individual to decide. | |
| Oct 5, 2015 at 12:03 | comment | added | Tim B | I think this answer works considering this is set far enough in the future really. | |
| Oct 5, 2015 at 11:56 | comment | added | Barafu Albino | A. Clark says "+1" here. Except in his case it was something like 3D scanning and storing people as data. | |
| Oct 5, 2015 at 11:28 | comment | added | gerrit | @Alpha3031 That's like saying that you can fly down a cliff or high building, and that it's just the landing you need to figure out. | |
| Oct 5, 2015 at 7:27 | comment | added | ApproachingDarknessFish | @Alpha3031 Without proving that they could be brought back, this technique becomes tantamount to mass murder by hypothermia. Nonetheless, +1, because this could definitely be possible wiith near-future tech. | |
| Oct 5, 2015 at 2:22 | comment | added | timuzhti | @gerrit It does provenly exist. We just don't have a way of bringing the frozen people back, yet. Not that much of a problem if the bigger problem is overpopulation, if you ask me. | |
| Oct 4, 2015 at 19:06 | comment | added | gerrit | The technology does not provenly exist today. | |
| Oct 4, 2015 at 15:38 | history | answered | Anixx | CC BY-SA 3.0 |