Storing dead people at -196°C

Camera: Martin Bäbler

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[TomScottGo]

I realise that I said "freezing" in the introduction, and then get corrected later on in the video. I didn't notice until I got to the edit, so it had to stay in!

[waywardmind]

I like that the CEO specifies that it's a research procedure, not a medical procedure.

[abouttime]

the idea of a trust fund for your own dead corpse where generations of people will work to preserve it is very pharaoh-like

[hedleyt]

Imagine waking up in 500 years and dying again 2 days later because you still have cancer...

[gary]

Never thought we'd see a home freezer tour from Tom but here we are.

[bionicbison]

Tom straight up showed us where he hid the bodies and expected us not to notice

[rosuav]

Tom, you've shown us a lot of really cool places in this series, but -196°C is definitely one of the coolest...

[MrWapadar]

This is the epitome of "So you're telling me there's a chance."

[fakepng]

As a person who has never been frozen at -196°C, I agree.

[LalanDesai]

Imagine someone who was once inside that freezer watching this video after 500 years.

[cryosphereuploads]

Benjamin Franklin is known to have written a letter in 1773 to Jacques Dubourg, a French physicist and a fellow inventor, in which he muses on the concept of being preserved. Here is the relevant passage from that letter:

"I wish it were possible... to invent a method of embalming drowned persons, in such a manner that they might be recalled to life at any period, however distant; for having a very ardent desire to see and observe the state of America a hundred years hence, I should prefer to an ordinary death, being immersed with a few friends in a cask of Madeira, until that time, then to be recalled to life by the solar warmth of my dear country! But... in all probability, we live in a century too little advanced, and too near the infancy of science, to see such an art brought in our time to its perfection."

[thecomedypilot]

"Ok, one more video before bed"

*The video:*

[LimitedWard]

Imagine being one major recession away from getting thrown out like a freezer burnt chicken.

[Immadeus]

Tom is really trying to make the most existential crisis inducing videos before he takes his break.

[trainsgochoochoo]

Tom in a thousand years:
This is the pod where I was frozen and now I'm going to be a delivery boy.

[hansofaxalia]

wastelander in year 2504: “hey boss look! The boys and I found a bunch of preserved bodies frozen in some tube, gonna be eating good tonight!”

[Blah]

But when I freeze a dead body in my fridge, I go to jail. This isn't fair

[alexrogers]

Feel like at the very least this will leave some extremely well preserved modern mummies for the future

[tom.wassell]

What frustrates me the most, is unless you're in that tank - you'll likely never get to know if it works.

[laka]

I'd feel weird waking up knowing that my family and friends of today could potentially have been dead for hundreds of years. On the other hand this would allow me to know what happened to them as oppose to not knowing at all if there's no afterlife.