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3 unusual facts about cryonics


Douglas Fargo

In "Family Reunion" Fargo discovers his grandfather was cryonically frozen in 1957 and is thawed out into the present.

Neil R. Jones

He also pioneered cyborg and robotic characters, and is credited with inspiring the modern idea of Cryonics.

Spencer Smythe

Alistair Smythe eventually discovers that his father is alive with Spider-Man's help and escapes with his cryonically preserved body.


Billy Werner

The band released A New Set of Lungs, their first EP, in 2002, and then released their critically acclaimed record, Cryonics, the Fair Trades & Farewells EP, and their latest record, Risk Revival, all on Level Plane records, except for Risk Revival released on Equal Vision records.

Fred and Linda Chamberlain

Mensa wrote in its newsletter that, second to the man credited with the original idea for cryonics, Robert Ettinger, the Chamberlains have contributed more than anyone to the field of cryonics.

Judith Merkle Riley

Her father, Theodore Charles Merkle, ran Project Pluto, and her brother Ralph is a pioneer in public key cryptography, and more recently a researcher and speaker on molecular nanotechnology and cryonics.

Neil R. Jones

One young science fiction fan who read The Jameson Satellite and drew inspiration from the idea of cryonics was Robert Ettinger, who became known as the father of cryonics.


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