Frozen human brain tissue works perfectly when thawed 18 months later - eviltoast
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    6 months ago

    If I remember correctly the issue has to do with the water in your bodies you can only cool water so fast. If I am recalling correctly you couldn’t even do it with absolute zero temperatures as the water takes to much time to lose energy.

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      6 months ago

      Well, no. Reductionism still holds. If you could magically make the water everywhere inside super cold, it would behave locally just like water in a smaller creature. Unfortunately, it seems impossible to do that. Even pumping coolant through the circulatory system, which is a thing I know at least happens in some related procedures.

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        6 months ago

        Its a very complex problem. Even if you pump coolant it will either prevent cells from getting oxygen or clog both of which are bad.

        My point previously was that water doesn’t conduct heat well. (0.6065 W/(m·K))

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          Yeah, it’s a doozy of an engineering problem. It’s like trying to build a lever out of sand. There’s just no way to tackle it straight.