I thought it had been pretty well established that any revived corpsicles will discover that their heirs sued and won all of their money centuries earlier, and they are destined to be slaves for whoever eventually purchased their heads and paid to grow them bodies.
Larry Niven tells us that those who have themselves frozen without making proper financial provisions will eventually be harvested for their organs, so watch out.
That was on a Futurama episode- Fry ends up with 4.3 billion dollars from an account where he left 93 cents 1000 years ago because of compound interest.
I prefer the magic of compound inflation- you may have 5 billion when you wake up, but the procedure to revive you cost 15 billion.
Rich beyond my wildest dream of avarice...IN TEH FU7UR3!!1!
Posted by Chopper | Link to this comment | 01-24-06 7:41 AM
I thought it had been pretty well established that any revived corpsicles will discover that their heirs sued and won all of their money centuries earlier, and they are destined to be slaves for whoever eventually purchased their heads and paid to grow them bodies.
Posted by Shamhat | Link to this comment | 01-24-06 8:53 AM
I thought these folks had figured out a way to keep ice crystals from punching through cell walls... high pressure? slow cooling? antifreeze?
Clearly, I am just making things up.
Posted by tom | Link to this comment | 01-24-06 9:14 AM
tom,
I read the same thing, somewhere. After all, there's just no point otherwise (as noted in OP).
Posted by TJ | Link to this comment | 01-24-06 10:31 AM
Larry Niven tells us that those who have themselves frozen without making proper financial provisions will eventually be harvested for their organs, so watch out.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 01-24-06 11:51 AM
That was on a Futurama episode- Fry ends up with 4.3 billion dollars from an account where he left 93 cents 1000 years ago because of compound interest.
I prefer the magic of compound inflation- you may have 5 billion when you wake up, but the procedure to revive you cost 15 billion.
Posted by SP | Link to this comment | 01-24-06 2:22 PM