Ch6-06
Othosmops on Sept. 30, 2024
Panel 1:
Some minutes later …
GISELLE: Hmm, well, zis one looks familiar.
BRUNO: That's right. The sight of it immediately makes me nauseous.
IVAN: That's why we're not lingering here any longer, but taking the elevator down one floor.
Panel 2:
IVAN: Here: Your most important location on the journey to Mars.
BRUNO: The Cryo-Chambers!
Panel 3:
GISELLE: Ice-cold to Mars. Cooled down to deaz level.
I zink zet's creepy!
VILIS: But that's the only way - unless you want to use up all our supplies and fill our ship with your biological excretions.
BRUNO: All I can say is: cryo-travel is safer than exposing yourself to the risk of breaking your leg or getting progressive zero-g brain softening every day.
GISELLE: I won't believe it until I've survived it!
plymayer at 5:50PM, Oct. 2, 2024
Not sure I'd like it either. Does seem practical.
jerrie at 9:44AM, Sept. 30, 2024
Let ME stay awake! Dont freeze me! it might end up being fatal!
Othosmops at 12:01AM, Oct. 1, 2024
It would, however, be a very gentle, "fatal" ending that you wouldn't notice at all. There are advantages to this.
bravo1102 at 3:56AM, Sept. 30, 2024
You don't freeze some one without putting them to sleep first. You can do a lot with modern anesthesia. Lost count of all the times I've been out.
Othosmops at 12:02AM, Oct. 1, 2024
Sleep (or unconsciousness) is not the problem, waking up is. Will everything be restored, will I wake up as a lobotomized idiot, perhaps with various parts still frozen off, or not at all?
bravo1102 at 1:06AM, Sept. 30, 2024
You really want to be awake for that long trip? Put me to sleep and wake me when I get there.
Othosmops at 2:22AM, Sept. 30, 2024
"Sleep" is not the precise word for this state. When we sleep, for example, there are no problems with the blood-brain barrier.