I probably wouldn't do it. I like the current time. I think just freezing myself for the hell of it would seem like throwing away everything I slacked off for. I'd rather have it be by accident, like Fry, if I wanted it at all.

Damn computers....

I would freeze myself if it were possible to like in Futurama but currently the closest they have got is waiting until your dead, pumping your corpse full a special anti-freeze and then freezing you.

Then they have the cheek to say that they'll thaw you out when they have "found a cure/way!"

With each passing day I lean closer to "yes".  It couldn't be any worse than this.

I'm like Archie - I tend to oscillate from one to the other. During my school years (i.e. up to 18) I would almost certainly have said yes, because I absolutely hated school.

But university on the other hand has been the best time of my life (so good I decided to stick around an extra year  ). So at the moment I'd probably say no.

No way man. Not unless I could take all my friends along with me. The possibilty of a better future wouldn't be enough to make me want to abandon what I've got going now.

I'd like to be frozen in an funny position. Nekkid too so the people from the future can admire me in all my glory. On the block of ice/cryogenic capsule there will be a bronze plaque with my last words on it:
"Hey look everybody I'm farting in this liquid cryo-fluid. You can see the bubbles freezing! "

Damn right I would!
Think about it, you could buy loads of stuff then freeze your ass (and if there's time, the rest of your body too) and get away with not paying your bills and stuff!

You could also see if Futurama is remade in 5D Brain-O-Vision in the future and if it isn't, you could introduce it to people and they'd tell you to shut up and get out of your house!!
Then you'd make it in the history books as the first nerd to pimp a 1000 year old sci-fi cartoon.

well: I think I wouldnt unless I did something really important that has an effect on future life, but If I dont then its like all there past 15 years were a waste because all i learnt would be practically useless and all i did the same.

I like the idea of staying where I am.  I wouldn't want to risk waking up in 1000 years to find out the work week has been extended to 7 days.

I dont see why not. It costs way too much and would amke it hard for my friends and family.

He didn't fall in the cryogenics tube on purpose. At the time Fry fell in by what he thought was an 'accident'.

Because Im a Nerd I feel I need to quibble over this title. Cryonics is the specific technical term for freezing people so they can be resurected.

Cyrogenics is the science of freezing any old junk. Its just a term that seems to have stuck.

That being said I would most definately do it.
Although I was thinking about it recently and I realised just how much culture shock there would be. People dont realise how much culture can shape a person. There are fundamentals to being human but culture can override all that.

Things we did felt and though would be looked upon as bizzare. And also thought to be wrong since they are in the future so they "know better" I imagine the experience as being how I'd treat someone from the middle ages. Just because an Idea is from a differnt time doesnt mean its bad.

And Ripley should never have been ressurected. Trust Joss Wheedon to keep at the dead horse

 

Originally posted by Tweek:
there is no guarantee that the future would be more advanced then we are now, some disaster might set civilisation back.

Yep, its called President Bush and the FOX network.   


gotta stop laughing at my own jokes...


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Hmm. At first thought, given the chance to be frozen for a thousand years would be a no-brainer for me. I'd naturally say yes in a heartbeat. But then after 5 seconds I'll realize that this is a big risk. After all, what happens if there's a nuclear war and make tube gets fried, or it survives and I walk right into fallout? Or perhaps the human race has survived, but it has retrogressed back to primitive ways, or even worse to a dystopia of toil and sweat. The chances of me dying before even getting there are great, so as Ben said, it's a fancy way of suicide. But I think I would still risk it.

I would if by then they would have resolve my ISP problems.. not mention to my work problems

i would freeze myself if opportunity given
 its not that i hate my life now or anything, its just that i think all the time about how awesome its gonna be 100yrs from now.
  ill just do it right before i die so if it doesnt work who cares.

In fact it's entirely inevitable that English will be unrecognizable in a thousand years.  An issue Futurama wisely avoids.

 

Originally posted by canned eggs:
In fact it's entirely inevitable that English will be unrecognizable in a thousand years.  An issue Futurama wisely avoids.

There could still be English, it may just be a completely different langauge. I remember seeing a book with Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales in it, the pages on the right were modern English, but the pages on the left were the way he originally wrote it back in the 1300s, and it was almost completely unrecognizeable. English in the future may just be "Shizzle fo nizzle wizzle bizzle dizzle sizzle mizzle" for all we know.

And in response to me saying Fry got frozen by accident, he didn't know it was happening. I'd rather have it that way. A couple years ago I'd have loved to done it, but things are going up right now.

holy crap, i never put language into consideration until a couple seconds ago! thats weird and i agree in 1000 yrs that were not going to be speaking anything close to what were speaking now.