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[–] [email protected] 186 points 6 months ago (46 children)

You know I love the idea of cryostasis, and the idea of reanimating people after death is great.

But why the fuck would future humans bother bringing all these people back, even if they could? Even if they have a utopian society free of scarcity and inequality, they would be bringing back mostly rich people who lived in a super different and bad time and have literally nothing positive to contribute to the utopian future, since they were a large part of the problems of today in the first place. Plus the vast majority of them are almost certainly elitist assholes who nobody in a utopia would want to be around.

Maybe it would be a humanitarian thing, but if these people are dead and frozen there’s no real imperative to do this to end suffering or something. Or I guess maybe bringing them back to try and figure out what the hell their damage is that they felt ruining everything was a better option than working toward the betterment of all.. but they’d only need a few brains in vats for that, no bodies, so sucks to suck, cryofolks.

If future humans don’t have a utopian society, the only real use for people from so long ago that I can come up with would be research subjects or slaves. And frankly there are easier ways to go about getting those..

So I see no possible future where people who cryopreserve get brought back en masse. Even if it’s entirely possible to surmount the technical hurdles.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Lmao, remember that revived 80's douchbag business man on star trek TNG?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

He actually appeared ~~again in a later episode~~ in a couple TNG novelizations.

He managed to adapt and fit in to Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism, but eventually was called on to use his 1900s business prowess in ~~negotiations~~ becoming Earth's Ambassador to Ferenginar, and then eventually was named the Secretary of Commerce for at least two different Earth Presidents.

*edit, I lied. I'm sorry for misleading you all, you gave me your trust and I squandered it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

I mean, he has the skillset. Honestly probably startled the shit out of the first negotiation.

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