Crynogenics
Discovering Cryogenics
Brandon Ryan
Honors English 102
M,W,F 10:00-10:50
3/30/13
Myth and urban legends have been around as far as man mankind can remember. An legend can be described as an entertaining story or piece of information of uncertain source that is circulated as though true. In the legend of Walt Disney death it’s said that they used cryogenics to preserve his head. Walt Disney was diagnose with terminal lung cancer and was going to have to face death a young age. So he wanted to preserve his head so that later in life when there was a cure for cancer they could bring him back to live and cure him to do this cryogenics was his only option. Cryogenics was a new form of science that has just come about and people were very skeptic on, being since it was such an outrageous thought at the time. However, no one knows to this day whether if it true or not.
Cryogenics refers to the branches of physics and engineering that study very low temperatures, how to produce them, and how materials behave at those temperatures. Cryogenics is all about temperatures below -150 degrees Celcuis. One of the most amazing applications of cryogenic processing is cryonics is where the human body is exposed to cryogenic treatment in order to preserve it after death. In the United States of America, there are, currently, two organizations that offer cryogenic treatment for human bodies: The Cryonics Institute in Clinton Township, Michigan and Alcor in Scottsdale, Arizona. Once death sets in, the patient’s bodies are preserved in chemicals designed to theoretically protect cellular structure, before being lowered into steel tubes of liquid nitrogen, called dewars. Here they will be kept in ‘cold storage’ at negative 196 degrees celcuis in the hope that someday in the future they may be brought back to life. There are currently 147 people in cryogenic suspension, with another 1,000 members signed up for the deep freeze.
In 1940, pioneer biologist Basil
Brandon Ryan
Honors English 102
M,W,F 10:00-10:50
3/30/13
Myth and urban legends have been around as far as man mankind can remember. An legend can be described as an entertaining story or piece of information of uncertain source that is circulated as though true. In the legend of Walt Disney death it’s said that they used cryogenics to preserve his head. Walt Disney was diagnose with terminal lung cancer and was going to have to face death a young age. So he wanted to preserve his head so that later in life when there was a cure for cancer they could bring him back to live and cure him to do this cryogenics was his only option. Cryogenics was a new form of science that has just come about and people were very skeptic on, being since it was such an outrageous thought at the time. However, no one knows to this day whether if it true or not.
Cryogenics refers to the branches of physics and engineering that study very low temperatures, how to produce them, and how materials behave at those temperatures. Cryogenics is all about temperatures below -150 degrees Celcuis. One of the most amazing applications of cryogenic processing is cryonics is where the human body is exposed to cryogenic treatment in order to preserve it after death. In the United States of America, there are, currently, two organizations that offer cryogenic treatment for human bodies: The Cryonics Institute in Clinton Township, Michigan and Alcor in Scottsdale, Arizona. Once death sets in, the patient’s bodies are preserved in chemicals designed to theoretically protect cellular structure, before being lowered into steel tubes of liquid nitrogen, called dewars. Here they will be kept in ‘cold storage’ at negative 196 degrees celcuis in the hope that someday in the future they may be brought back to life. There are currently 147 people in cryogenic suspension, with another 1,000 members signed up for the deep freeze.
In 1940, pioneer biologist Basil
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