But what if you used cyro for short periods of time?
Like say for example, instead of sleeping you go into cyro for eight hours?
I know that sounds really dumb, but it’s something I was wondering about.
If you went into cyro for eight hours every night, then you would be in cyro for 240 hours for a 30 day month, 248 for a 31 day month, and 224/232 hours in February.
So in a year, you would have accumulated around 2920 hours in cyro. That’s about 121 days (I’m just using whole numbers here).
So in three years, this number would be 363 days, or just short of one year. So for every three years that pass, you only age about two.
Do you find that useful? Would that even work? Can cyro ever fully replace sleep? I’m just trying to see if this would work at all, or if there are some things that I am missing.
So I am posing the question to you. Could cyro replace sleep and extend an individual’s life span?
I think though, that the sleep processes might not function in cryo.
Pretty much your cells are slowed to a rate of almost being frozen in place.
They would not be able to do the repairs that we all need during our sleep cycle.
I also could see your idea working as well in the confines of Halo’s sci-fi universe.
> I see what you’re talking about.
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> I think though, that the sleep processes might not function in cryo.
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> Pretty much your cells are slowed to a rate of almost being frozen in place.
> They would not be able to do the repairs that we all need during our sleep cycle.
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> I also could see your idea working as well in the confines of Halo’s sci-fi universe.
Exactly. Sleep is the most important part of your daily routines for your body, especially the brains. While you sleep, damaged cells are repaired and pretty much every process in your body is geared towards repairing and recovering your body from everything it went through when you were awake.
The idea of cryo sleep is that it stops these processes, no more can your “damaged” body be repaired. So technically, you would stop aging overnight, but spending all your nights in cryo sleep is technically equal to never sleeping. In the end, after about five or so nights spend in cryo sleep, you would feel very tired and unable to complete any tasks. Continue even further and you’re dead. Sleep deprivation is a very dangerous thing.
Yeah, I think you guys here got it right on but, I think that some people use cryo sleep when they go into slipspace sometimes so they dont have to put up with its effects, and they also use it for long voyages through space as well.
Yea its a cool thought but lets just look at the games. In Halo CE and in Halo4 trailer you emerge from cryo in a VERY alert state almost like snapping out of a day dream vs coming out of a full sleep cycle. So although its cool I don’t think it would give you the rest your body needs. If you wanted to extend your life why not just spend your weekends in cryo, age only 5 days outa 7
> Yea its a cool thought but lets just look at the games. In Halo CE and in Halo4 trailer you emerge from cryo in a VERY alert state almost like snapping out of a day dream vs coming out of a full sleep cycle. So although its cool I don’t think it would give you the rest your body needs. If you wanted to extend your life why not just spend your weekends in cryo, age only 5 days outa 7
Why waste the most precious time in the week? I’d be in cryo everyday but the weekend.
Keep in mind, i’m pretty sure you get injected with stims as you’re being woken from Cryo, to speed the process along.
Also, he wasn’t so much “alert” as “awake” in Halo 1, but he was well and truly alert in the Halo 4 teaser because the situation required him to get moving fast. Adrenaline’s good at waking you the hell up :P.
Thanks for the input guys. I wasn’t really too sure if cryo could even replace sleep but it seems like it can’t. It was just a question I asked out of curiosity.
> Keep in mind, i’m pretty sure you get injected with stims as you’re being woken from Cryo, to speed the process along.
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> Also, he wasn’t so much “alert” as “awake” in Halo 1, but he was well and truly alert in the Halo 4 teaser because the situation required him to get moving fast. Adrenaline’s good at waking you the hell up :P.
Plus trailers are not canon. He awakes amidst explosions in the teaser, but in the GI article it seems pretty quiet when he awakes.
but, I think that some people use cryo sleep when they go into slipspace sometimes so they dont have to put up with its effects, and they also use it for long voyages through space as well.
I’d be in cryo everyday but the weekend.