[I want the USA back]

If hibernation had a survival value in primates, primates would be hibernating during the winter. They don’t.

Attempting to put a primate into hibernation runs into the very obvious fact that primates do not have a state of hibernation because it does not have a survival value for primates.

In order to test his, the “scientists” would need volunteers willing to be put into induced hibernation for several years. They would have to willingly accept the possibility that family members or friends could die during that period.

There will be some people willing to volunteer for this. I’m not.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

With fast food, social media, video games, etc. our culture is becoming more inured to instant gratification and those things which require short attention spans.

If and when we finally do develop the technologies to travel to the far reaches of space, will there be enough interest among Earthlings to care about such missions?

[Telepathic Intruder]

Hibernation is in fact a latent aspect of all primates, having evolved from rodent-like creatures who were able to burrow underground and hibernate for something like a year, which is what allowed them to escape the fate of the dinosaurs when the meteor wiped them out instead of us (since we are also primates). I know that was an overlong sentence, sorry.

[ro_dreaming]

If hibernation had a survival value in primates, primates would be hibernating during the winter. They don’t.

I’ve recently read that bears and such don’t hibernate because of the cold, but due to the scarcity of food during winters.

[WalkerinSC]

Pretty sure in China, the experiment volunteers you.