Cryogenics - Another step towards intergalactic space travel?

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[From fUSION Anomaly]

The problem with space travel is not really the extremly large distanceper se but that they take too long to traverse. So, if you cannot finda short cut the only remaing option is to extend endurance. One possible way to do this would be through hibernation. The assumption is that a person in hierbation does not get ored from watching stars passing by an that their lifespan would possibly be very much extended.

"It may seem fantastic, but the fact that in aqueous solution, [the] water component can be slowly supercooled to the glassy state and warmed back without the crystallization implies that, in principle, if the suitable cyroprotectant is created, cells in plants and living matter could withstand a large supercooling and survive," Bogdan explained. In present cyropreservation, the cells being preserved are often damaged due to freezing of water either on cooling or subsequent warming to room temperature."Damage of the cells occurs due to the extra-cellular and intra-cellular ice formation which leads to dehydration and separation into the ice and concentrated unfrozen solution. If we could, by slow cooling/warming, supercool and then warm the cells without the crystallization of water then the cells would be undamaged."

Slow-frozen people? Latest research supports possibility of cyropreservation | Science Blog

I wouldn't mind staying in hibrnation all winter and waking up a couple of months every year for summer and perhaps for a week of skiing.