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- Thu May 26, 2022 10:06 pm
- Forum: Science & Technology of the Future
- Topic: Home-made biostatic time-machine project
- Replies: 13
- Views: 15161
Re: Home-made biostatic time-machine project
Well, I live too far away from any current cryonics and brain preservation facilities, so collaboration with them would be difficult. I devised the chronoscaphe as an option to be used exactly in such situation. Not that I predict many people going this route in the near future, the interest in 'con...
- Fri May 13, 2022 5:40 pm
- Forum: Science & Technology of the Future
- Topic: Cloning Extinct Species
- Replies: 21
- Views: 42219
Re: Cloning Extinct Species
Sure, reverse engineering of the biological basis of species based on the accumulated knowledge of their external appearance, behavior, nutrition, etc., will be one way to pull it off in the future. Given the complete understanding of developmental biology and genetics, in principle a corresponding ...
- Sun May 08, 2022 4:10 pm
- Forum: Science & Technology of the Future
- Topic: When can I realistically expect to start augmenting myself?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 18530
Re: When can I realistically expect to start augmenting myself?
Enhancements will slowly evolve out of prosthetics for the disabled, including mental augmentation via technologies like Neuralink. While the 'fit' and the 'normal' will harbor distaste and aversion towards the idea of enhancement, It is the suffering and the damaged, such as the war veterans that w...
- Sat May 07, 2022 5:19 pm
- Forum: Science & Technology of the Future
- Topic: Cloning Extinct Species
- Replies: 21
- Views: 42219
Re: Cloning Extinct Species
After Jurassic Park came out, scientists were quick to dismiss the idea of cloning extinct animals as nonsense, repeating the same thing over and over again. Thus, no dinosaurs will ever walk the Earth again, since there is no DNA left behind. Their myopic prediction is based on the results from PCR...
- Wed May 04, 2022 5:24 pm
- Forum: Science & Technology of the Future
- Topic: Home-made biostatic time-machine project
- Replies: 13
- Views: 15161
Re: Home-made biostatic time-machine project
It is a dream of mine to build an autonomous biostatic capsule that may give an individual a shot at the future. Currently it is at the theoretical and preliminary level of planning. Real work will follow when the construction begins, which may take a few years, depending on personal factors. I will...
- Sun Apr 17, 2022 10:13 pm
- Forum: Science & Technology of the Future
- Topic: Home-made biostatic time-machine project
- Replies: 13
- Views: 15161
Re: Home-made biostatic time-machine project
Thanks! I am glad I could stir up some thoughts. There are some general arguments to provide introduction to the project, as I am in the process of writing a book-length treatment of those issues. In some ways, the time-boat is meant to be a speculative answer to the most 'conservative' possible vie...
- Sat Apr 16, 2022 11:05 pm
- Forum: Science & Technology of the Future
- Topic: Home-made biostatic time-machine project
- Replies: 13
- Views: 15161
Re: Home-made biostatic time-machine project
Yes, it is true that it is not enough. Right now, and for me personally, it is an amusing concept to explore and develop. Biostasis has attracted few supporters so far, but this may change in the next few decades if some interesting theoretical proposals are turned into practice. I don't see that ha...
- Fri Apr 15, 2022 1:01 pm
- Forum: Science & Technology of the Future
- Topic: Home-made biostatic time-machine project
- Replies: 13
- Views: 15161
Re: Home-made biostatic time-machine project
The capsule is designed to be incompressible - it can't be crushed. It is protected from mechanic impacts by a thick, composite shell and filled in totality with an inert fluid to counteract hydrostatic pressure (see schematic drawings). At the bottom of the ocean, there is very little visibility, i...
- Thu Apr 07, 2022 10:14 pm
- Forum: Science & Technology of the Future
- Topic: Home-made biostatic time-machine project
- Replies: 13
- Views: 15161
Home-made biostatic time-machine project
Hi everyone, Biostasis (cryonics, brain-preservation, etc.) has been a subject of rising interest among futurists and transhumanists. However, as currently practiced, it is expensive and often locally unavailable. There are two cryonic organizations in the US, one in Russia, and that is all as far a...