There's also the issue of radiation damage; when you're in cryostasis, cells can't repair themselves / make new ones so after a hundred years or so you need to be thawed to heal yourself.
Quote from: Lampyridae on 01/26/2009 10:52 pmThere's also the issue of radiation damage; when you're in cryostasis, cells can't repair themselves / make new ones so after a hundred years or so you need to be thawed to heal yourself.Oddly enough seeds seem to handle the free radical damage from normal background radiation just fine... Might be related to the fact they are packed with anti oxidants (The B vitamins and vitamin E). Odd little fact, in the early 1900's the industrialized world switched away from localy ground stone mills that milled wheat fresh to large industrial steel mills that would strip the bran and germ (Fiber, B vitamins, vitamin E) out of the flour to make it shelf stable. Since then out heart disease, cancer rates, diabetes rates, chrons rates have sky rocketed ... Off topic tin hat alert I know, I did notice several positives in my health when we switched to milling our own flour.