By 2050, there will be at least one person cryonically frozen in space.
Created by Grognor on 2012-04-08; known on 2051-01-01
- Grognor estimated 22% on 2012-04-08
- Ben Doherty estimated 10% and said “with commercial space flight, it is now ‘only money’ but ther probably won’t be the infrastructure for keeping the body anywhere useful. They might just flick it out into an orbit somewhere though.” on 2012-04-09
- Jayson Virissimo said “Does this mean someone will be frozen in space or a frozen person will be stored in space?” on 2012-04-09
- Isaac estimated 25% on 2012-04-09
- Grognor said “stored in space, not frozen there” on 2012-04-09
- Jayson Virissimo estimated 20% on 2012-04-09
- RobertLumley estimated 15% on 2012-04-09
- gwern said “hm. curious suggestion. space actually presents a lot of issues – increased cosmic radiation, uneven irradiation/heating, long-term orbits, orbital debris… this refers to planned corpses right? not dead astronauts?” on 2012-04-09
- Jayson Virissimo said “Yeah, but it is safe from the riff raff and has lower average temps.” on 2012-04-09
- Grognor said “I’m thinking in terms of Alcor/CI deliberately storing some of their customers in space. Actually, put that way, it seems my percentage was too high. It seems like if you could solve the problems, low maintenance makes it kind of likely-ish” on 2012-04-09
- RandomThinker estimated 15% and said “Too expensive. Pool is small. Assuming life expectancy of 70, that person is aged 32 now.” on 2012-04-11
- Ken estimated 2% and said “Can’t see the cost of going to space going down fast enough to matter” on 2012-04-11
- Oscar_Cunningham estimated 1% on 2012-04-20
- JoshuaZ estimated 1% on 2012-04-25
- themusicgod1 estimated 47% on 2016-10-10