Posted on 05/16/2016 7:07:18 PM PDT by BenLurkin
"The idea of suspended animation for interstellar human spaceflight has often been posited as a promising far-term solution for long-duration spaceflight," said Dr John Bradford, CEO of the firm.
The cryosleep system works by chilling humans and artificially inducing a state of hypothermia so astronauts can hibernate for up to two weeks.
A similar technique is already used to cool the body of someone who has suffered a cardiac arrest in a bid to avoid brain damage.
This would allow just one space man or woman to maintain the ship, meaning the spacecraft could be much smaller and travel more efficiently through space.
SpaceWorks hopes its hibernation chamber will be used during voyages to Mars.
"Medical progress is quickly advancing our ability to induce deep sleep states with significantly reduced metabolic rates for humans over extended periods of time," it wrote.
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“I can’t let you do that, Dave.”
OK. Yet bears and other animals are able to hibernate without being frozen. Perhaps we should pursue that path instead...
Pretty good for a planet on which it’s rare for Joe Citizen to get eight hours a night.
SpaceWorks hopes its hibernation chamber will be used during voyages to Mars.yeah, that'll happen.
The commercial space sector should be encouraged to bring down the cost of space travel, particularly by operating a space taxi service to the International Space Station, in his view.
I was going to recomend calling it the Botany Bay.
Can they test it on me? I could use a good week’s sleep!
Not a great upside unless you could halt aging. Otherwise you’re just shortening your life, in a sense.
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