09/09/11

Technology tries to make humans become immortal

Technology tries to make humans become immortal

In 1967, a British secret agent "frozen" while waiting for the future in which rival riser length in the ice to return to threaten the world. That time arrived in 1997. Secret agent was brought back after preserved in ice for 30 years to save the world from destruction.



Perhaps you recognize the scenario above one in the film "Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery" (1997). The science that inspired the film's story actually exists. Science is called cryogenics, the science of learning about what happens to materials at very low temperatures. Krionika, which is a technique used to preserve the human body at very low temperatures in the hope that one day be resurrected, is dikembangakn today.
The idea behind krionika is if someone is "dead" due to her illness, she can be "frozen" and then revived in the future when medical technology was able to cure the disease. Someone is preserved in such a way is said to be in a state of suspension krionika.

Stages for the suspensions undergo krionika:

1. Become a member of a facility krionika and pay membership fees (about $ 400 per year).

2. Declared "legally dead".

3. Emergency response team from the facility come to you, your body is stabilized by supplying oxygen through the blood to your brain in sufficient quantities to maintain minimal function of the brain until the time comes for your suspension was transferred to the facility.

4. Your body will be wrapped in ice and injected heparin (a type of anticoagulant / anti-clotting) to prevent your blood clot on his way to krionika facilities. A group of medical teams waiting for the arrival of your body at the facility.

5. Once you arrive at the cryogenics facility, "freezing" the real start soon. Cryogenics facility can not simply put their patients into a container of liquid nitrogen because it will cause the water contained frozen body cells. Krionika team must remove water from the cells of your body first and replace it with a chemical compound called glycerol-based cryoprotectant (a kind of compound antipembekuan the human body).


6. The next step is to enter your body which is then placed into a large metal tank containing liquid nitrogen at a temperature of about-196oC. Your body is stored with the head down position.


7. Because the costs are very expensive, scientists provide an economical way to preserve your brain only. In the hope that one day technology to find a way to clone your body that are not preserved.

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