English Learning for Curious Minds | A More Interesting Way To Learn English [From The Vault 🔐] Cryonics | Freezing People in Time
Mar 5, 2026
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Russian Warehouse Holding Hundreds Of Cryonics Patients
- Around two hours north of Moscow 94 people and 61 pets are stored in liquid nitrogen at −196°C as cryonics patients.
- Their bodies hang drained and frozen in a warehouse run by Cryorus, paid for by fees between $12,000 and $36,000 according to the episode.
How A 12-Year-Old Sci-Fi Fan Sparked Modern Cryonics
- Robert Ettinger read the 1931 sci-fi story The Jameson Satellite and believed frozen corpses could be revived by future technology.
- He became a physics professor and published The Prospect of Immortality in 1962 to promote cryonics.
Vitrification Prevents Ice Crystal Damage
- Cryonics aims to stop decay while avoiding ice crystal damage by cooling within a short postmortem window and using vitrification.
- Vitrification replaces blood with cryoprotectant fluid to form a glass-like solid instead of ice.
