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#1 2022-10-12 09:10:44

tahanson43206
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Hibernation

For SpaceNut ... we did not have a topic for hibernation

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg … -hibernati

The article at the link above seems to point toward the possibility humans may have inherited the capability of hibernating (to some extent) from ancient precursors in the family tree.

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#2 2022-10-12 09:11:43

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Re: Hibernation

Here is a snippet from the article cited in Post #1:

The idea that ancient humans could hibernate may seem far-fetched, but mounting evidence suggests that many non-hibernating mammals retain an ability to enter reduced-energy states, including through dormant brain-signaling pathways that slow metabolism. “The distribution of hibernating species on the tree of mammals makes the likely conclusion that the common ancestor of all mammals was a hibernator,” says Sandy Martin at the University of Colorado. “It’s possible we all have the genetic hardware.”

It remains to be seen whether any underlying circuitry can be fired up enough to bestow us with some of hibernation’s protective properties. But the potential spoils are too great not to try.

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#3 2022-10-12 09:44:30

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Re: Hibernation

Tahanson, this should be an interesting discussion, you often see it feature in scifi books and movies. I also see scifi visuals of Hibernation in social media clips, trailers for video game. The virtual video game world is as big as the movie and music industry with an improvement in the visuals and sound and story of video games it has become a subject for the speculative fiction and entertainment for Millennials and Generation Z. I remember some form of the Hibernation topic has been discussed before on newmars but maybe not a dedicated topic there was 'People Transport' for Mars/Jupiter and discussion of Animated Suspension and Cryonics, there was discussion of Death and Mortality and DNA Genetic Engineering, and how to travel to Large asteroids, Galliliean moons, Titan, Triton, the sleep that Bees and Bears go through in winter and speculated journeys in a far future to some Exoplanet.

The science of 'cloning' and robot mothers to raise a clone on a far off world was another idea discussed which was a different path to hibernation or 'Suspended Animation  Chamber' or some other freeze device.

It is said 1,500 people had made arrangements for cryopreservation of recent dead corpses in a hope to come back.

Some believe nanorobotics might start making the folklore stories of magic of Necromancy become real.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25717141/

It might have implications for Law, Morality, Neuroethics, Medical Ethics.

A 2013 article from a Writer, Blogger & Journalist

says 250 people have undergone cryopreservation

Cryonics and the Definition of ‘Death’

https://www.samwoolfe.com/2013/06/cryon … death.html

Cryonics, which is usually confused with cryogenics, is the preservation of humans and animals using low temperatures. It is used on humans and animals which cannot be kept alive using modern medicine and the aim is that resuscitation would be possible at some future time.

Preserving people and animals with cryonics – also called cryopreservation – cannot be reversed with the technology we currently have. In other words, we are not able to resuscitate someone if they have been cryopreserved.


I rarely take part in discussion of Mars Law or Constitution threads and I will not push any religion or religious reasons or moral faith on people, but bringing the dead back to life might be one of the times I will make a Moral or Ethical Objection.


Some people in news media believe rich people are freezing themselves because they do not want to accept mortality or fear death, Cryonics by news is regarded with skepticism within the mainstream scientific community and generally viewed as a pseudoscience.
https://web.archive.org/web/20190717153 … story.html

It would be interesting if science found a method to reactivate some old human DNA with hibernation properties.

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#4 2022-10-12 13:58:09

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Re: Hibernation

The new scientists article re post #1

quotes Sandy Martin
https://medschool.cuanschutz.edu/cell-a … ndy-martin

I also found a link to 'Sandra L Martin' perhaps the same person writing papers

Mammalian hibernation: a naturally reversible model for insulin resistance in man?
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18537093/ 

the new scientist article states

Mounting evidence suggests that humans may have the biological hardware to benefit from some aspects of hibernation. Switching on these mechanisms could treat cardiac arrest, boost longevity and help people travel further into space

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#5 2022-10-17 07:35:53

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Re: Hibernation

Fat, inactive and healthy, hibernating bears clues to treating diabetes in humans?

Hibernating bears’ ability to regulate insulin narrowed down to eight proteins

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/964800

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