How Human Hibernation Could Become Reality

The science of human hibernation and 'torpor' may soon catch up with science fiction, not only facilitating space travel but potentially helping treat cancer.
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[@MooneLightEntertainment]

I love that Bloomberg is now doing more science contents. Keep it up.

[@myotiswii]

I have pulled out a guy 34 minutes after he went underwater and he survived (idk if he had brain damage tho, I am just the salvage guy). It happend to other people I know too, especially in cold water. His body was cold like a dead body, and we had to warm it up using pcr. We do that with every body we find unless it has clear signs of death (if it has clearly been in the water for a few days or more). Its pretty rare after more then 30 min, but some people just start having heartbeat again and suvive the whole thing. A few years ago we got a guy with like 25 minutes who didnt even have the slightest bit of brain damage and came to thank is a few weeks later.

[@chrisjlee2013]

Few days or more? Bro you meant after 1 hour or more right? No way a person will still be alive

[@myotiswii]

@@chrisjlee2013 Yeah, while that would be realistic, our protocol just wants to make really really really sure. After a few hours the person still looks fresh, and then we would bring them up to normal body temperature and let a doctor check for signs of death. It slightly sucks for us, but since really dead looking drowned have gotten back before, we still do it. Honestly after the whole effort of the search, we might as well. It is also normally either you find them after maximum one hour or after a couple days anyway, because search stopps after a bit more then an hour, and they need a couple days to start floating.

[@business]

Would you hibernate if you could it safely? How long?

[@dad_jokes_4ever226]

Yes . Forever .

[@winterkitten]

After a heartbreaking event in life / for about an year?

[@tanmaysingh267]

After failing a test for a week

[@leoperez2566]

Long enough to see our star die.

[@Felix9lives]

I'll do it for 7 mos. if you sign me up for a mission to Mars!:))

[@ashtrayy6969]

hibernation + metaverse= sword art online lol

[@edmondgreen7970]

the only problem is the brain needs so much engery. that means more blood flow. that leads to needing things like the liver to be awake. that leads to others needing to be awake. soon you're just awake. I love the train of thought you're on though and think with some fine tuneing it'll happen.

[@KC-kj8du]

Thank you, Bloomberg. This is an exciting subject, not another brain-dead clickbait.

[@fitztastico]

I'd love to hibernate to skip winter in Ohio

[@vinayakgupta6105]

Lol same in my region

[@onyx9954]

I’d hibernate through the entirety of Ohio

[@HONDO504]

Boston bad rn

[@alastairhewitt380]

@@onyx9954 😂😂😂😂😂

[@joeblack4436]

Fascinating. Especially the bit about the intense brain neuroplasticity. Of course reckless human testing is out of the questions, but imagine they manage to induce this one day as part of a life saving effort on somebody, and then they emerge as a genius afterwards.

[@edmondgreen7970]

you really don't think they wouldn't test this on humans? really??

[@joeblack4436]

@@edmondgreen7970 They will eventually. But there's zero rush. Before then there's a whole number of checkpoints to pass wit R&D

[@ADB-zf5zr]

100 percent LARP

[@eunailee9898]

Don't find this fascinating at all.

[@yourdailydoseofreality3219]

@@joeblack4436 How is there no rush??? Aren’t we all dying or I am missing something?

[@tonyadastra]

Imagine waking up tomorrow realizing a century has already passed

[@wadafik]

If the world is in better state than it is now, then great. But if it isn't, I'm gonna hit snooze.

[@Philip02K]

For deep space travel it would be acceptable. Most people who would be glad to go, would be people without families or sending entire families. For deep space 🚀 exploration and colonial efforts to reach new world's this technology as well as A.I has to mature

[@SilkCrown]

Instead of people having to work toward financial independence or early retirement, people could hibernate while their investments grow.

[@md.mohaiminulislam9618]

Sad world

[@HappyHusbandnWife]

Their investments grow ? Or get robbed legally, like what they are doing NOW

[@oqlapsldim]

@@RedLemon69 he never said everyone should hibernate at the same time. Based on your logic the world should fall apart because many people have the weekends off from work. The same thing would apply here, there would still be enough people in society working to keep it going fine

[@fitztastico]

New series of the Walking Dead: Ten subjects in a hibernation study wake up to find the world has zombiefied

[@paulhunter6742]

In Bill Shatner's SF novels, TekWars, the process of Topia or hibernation was used as method to keep criminals incarcerated. There was risk of sort of psychosis where memory if being under topia long periods slowly caused mental deteriorate. And some people had sudden body temperature drops after revival.

[@LDacic]

Are studies done on Transcendental Meditation in any way related to the quest for hibernation?

[@tonyadastra]

Student in 2100: I'm going to class tomorrow in torpor mode

[@alphasuperior100]

These people are so smart to come up with ideas of why ancient man needed hibernation, etc.

[@wildflowerpersimmon2226]

now im upset people throw away their hamsters that are in torpor. how many poor hamters actually got buried alive? :( i hope my sister didnt do that by accident...

[@abigautam1085]

Informative

[@abelcain945]

A means to power. Profound.

[@avananand1614]

It's not possible until and unless we have a nuclear reactor which is capable of self sustaining for 200-400 years . Because we cannot have constant supply of electricity which we have seen in few decades of events which have occurred globally.

[@624radicalham]

Well we just invented fusion ...

[@Italianjedi7]

This is cool but will torpor feel like a minute had passed or will we experience time moving? Also if we age in torpor; it defeats the point for space travel

[@Snowflake_tv]

Wow... AWESOME!

[@user-il5hf7vp9k]

3:47 ^^ fuzzy ball

[@KGTiberius]

❓ Cryogenics and memory implications? Has the effect been studied in higher mammals?

[@ericv9610]

But you are still ageing during hibernation, biological clock slowed only 4-6% according to research. For Big animal like bear and human, hibernation costs same amount of energy. We might need more aggressive method for space flight and time travel: cryonicsleep.

[@Philip02K]

For exploration for humanity and it's colonization efforts to find suitsble world's for us long sleep for deep space exploration will be needed

[@btrollerror2632]

interesting

[@anandrajyadhuvanshi6978]

kumkaran from RAMAYANA was one of the first example of hybernation in human.

[@aqbukhari]

Thats fake

[@anandrajyadhuvanshi6978]

@@aqbukhari you are fake

[@TheGoddon]

Hybernashun

[@LandonShipman-iDzynes]

Synthetic TIME Travel to the future!

[@bubuphilip]

is it just me or do they make it sound like humans and dinosaurs coexisted 2:50.

[@awkward6198]

They’re referring to a common prehistoric ancestor

[@thehonorablejiveturkeyspoo6370]

Can I be a lab rat for this research

[@-yea_bro-]

Я бы тоже не отказался от бытия крысой в этом эксперементе

[@samutsakon]

I nearly started hibernating watching this fantasy video

[@unknownchannel3141]

Cryonics

[@theodord.3586]

Great posting in the middle of war!

[@ADB-zf5zr]

OMFG Dinosaurs were around at the same time as early Humans :D :D :D :D: D: D:

[@dumitrulangham1721]

Flinstone is base on a true event 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@ElPaume1]

I would hibernate until I die because that's precisely what I want

[@mikedoran5529]

Everything slows down when you hibernate, you could hibernate theoretically for 200 years.

[@JohnSmith-bm6zg]

The Matrix?

[@edmondgreen7970]

wouldn't be a bad idea if you could control it and if you could wake up when you wanted. more like Ready Player One

[@kanondegeminis8747]

LET ME ANSWER THE QUESTION, YES IT IS POSSIBLE BECUASE IS THE SAME THING AS PEACHES IN A CAN, THERE ARE CHEMICALS WHICH MAINTAIN THE PEACHES ALIVE, WE JUST DON HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY BUT ITS SOMEWHERE IN THE UNIVERSE

[@StuartHollingsead]

Even humingbirds use torpor

[@ianmoone2463]

I wanna hibernate now until Russian-Ukraine crises ends.

[@jaridkeen123]

Its not a Crisis its Russo-Ukrainian War

[@ianmoone2463]

@@jaridkeen123 ok, I wanna hibernate even more.

[@Yogaforallworld]

Scientist must learn YOGA, SAMADHI : Yes, It is Hybernation .!

[@yourdailydoseofreality3219]

How long can you stay in samadhi?

[@randomlifts]

Till then, a low calorie diet?

[@user-ts1yw6ji2o]

Humans : *doing hibernation* Bears from any communist country : Our☭Hibernation ?

[@AlexRadic5]

this would be perfect when going to mars, will it happen???

[@neranjaneekanagalingam7868]

Poor amen

[@adtiamzon3663]

Fascinating research: Synthetic is the word

[@AvinashKumarMCA]

Interesting topic but mundane presentation.😒

[@deepdude4719]

All the milluonaires and billionaires that I personally know dream to get this for themselves. They truly want this.

[@edmondgreen7970]

of course they do. many poor people do as well. it's a step toward living forever.

[@mwarnas]

The narrator sounds artificial, like GLADOS before the malfunction.

[@zacharyc494]

One thing I’d love about hibernation is I get to sleep

[@user-cw2py6wh8l]

When you wake up from hibernation, your soul is gone.

[@adzizi]

Wake me up when Covid-19 ends

[@kristensorensen2219]

What a wild idea!! Just as rediculous as living on Mars!!🤣

[@kazykamakaze131]

Not ridiculous at all. Its part of advancement. Only natural we colonize nearby planet, just like we did when we developed seafaring ships. Only people who can't imagine say things like this is ridiculous. If you don't want this then live your life and let others live theirs.

[@vn6191]

研究也要有底线....不然乱七八糟研究一通出来...人类很快就毁了

[@-yea_bro-]

Хочу в гибернацию. На столетие, или два.

[@arkscrew]

We hibernate every night😅

[@philippinesunfiltered421]

🤔🤔🤔

[@thekurdishgirl6538]

l want freeze my body

[@zmacb]

This doesn't make sense. man and dinosaurs is like a 14 million year gap. how was we being hunted. Modern man was only about 200k years ago.

[@AnarchyStax]

I believe he means "Our ancestors," as in early primates, not early humans.

[@yourdailydoseofreality3219]

He speaks of early mammals - our evolutionary ancestors.

[@khaledabdul2055]

How to buy ransomware

[@fromheretothere6074]

Humans existed in the same era as dinosaurs, ok :)))))))))))

[@H-lv2ls]

يرجل أنا طعامي لحد الحين ما حطيته بحافظه تبغى تحط ادمي بحافظه. م سلمت من الشراميط الي عندي تجيني أنت 😂🖕

[@saibabak]

3:01 Our ancestors used to hunt at night as dinosaurs were less active. Wow!!! Didn’t expect this kind of misinformation from Bloomberg.

[@ali_p_q7920]

That is correct, though. By "our ancestors" they simply mean "early mammals".

[@Joel_Goldstein]

That's what i was thinking as well... I don't think they vetted this expert too well on the science bit.

[@zjeerinho]

What the heck, I was almost like: did humans and dinosaurs live together lol

[@yourdailydoseofreality3219]

@@Joel_Goldstein The expert is correct. He talks about early mammals, who are our ancestors.

[@mgetommy]

Would use this when my wife is yabbering, am I rite fellas ?