A Visit to a New Type of Cryonics Research Facility



Tom Scott is back out in the road finding weird places to tell us about. Tomorrow Bio is a new cryonics lab in Switzerland. While they store their dead clients at very low temperatures (-196°C), they will tell you that they aren't freezing them. The liquids in the body are replaced with antifreeze, but not the kind you put in your radiator, and the word they use is "vitrify." The dictionary tells us the process of vitrification uses heat and fusion, so they must be talking about something different, although it's not fully explained.

Will this technique work? Will these bodies ever be resuscitated? Most likely not, but the company frames it as a research project instead of a promise. You can't assign numbers to the odds of success in a project like this like you can in a lottery, but like the lottery, your odds of success rise ever so slightly if you buy a ticket.


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