yes LN2 is cheap-ish (about price of milk) but it’s not free. gains you’re talking about only happen when comically large dewars are used, these would have to be custom made for them - meaning nonstandard and not cheap

ah yes “just” 1nm precision scanning. even scanning at resolution of six single carbon-carbon bonds won’t help you after cell walls and everything that was inside were shredded by ice crystals formed, as i think there’s not really suitable cryoprotectant involved, if it’s even developed for human-size tissues. i don’t think it’s a thing, and also freezing rate required would be likely impossible just because of typical human size

as it stands today, moore’s law hit a wall, brain simulation is fantasy tech, and it’ll remain so for considerable time, i’d even say probably forever (humans will have more pressing issues to deal with). copy is not original and maybe it’ll be reassuring to other people, but these other people also are dead by that point so it’s useless. the rest are futurologist noises coming from people who don’t want to admit that they made a religion out of misinterpreted scifi

500 years in the future? mate, would you consider

Early attempts at cryonic preservation were made in the 1960s and early 1970s; most relied on family members to pay for the preservation and ended in failure, with all but one of the corpses cryopreserved before 1973 being thawed and disposed of.[14]

not even single one frozen today will remain so within 70, 100 years, nevermind 500

funeral home doesn’t have recurring expenses per corpse for infinite time

it’s not a gamble, it’s more of a shared belief propagated by people who took scifi way too seriously

power outages at these facilities already happened, but it’s a smaller problem in grand scheme of things. facility of this type promises to keep human meatsicle at 77K effectively forever (because magic tech to revive dead is not coming), for a single payment. this means they’ll simply run out of power/liquid nitrogen money at some point and will have to shut down, and allow everything to thaw

Smaller payloads are often custom made, it’s not a stretch to make a bigger one also especially considering that it’s a thing that already happened previously. I’ve seen video of Ukrainians melting TNT out of mortar shells (it can be done with hot water) to put it in lighter, custom made drone payloads, surely there’s a supply of TM-62s or loose explosives to use in this way

otoh sounds like a good thing, because it suggests that 155mm projectile supply is adequate

i think it’s done because that’s what they had on hand. engineer would recognize that shell is built to survive getting shot out of barrel, while drone dropped something doesn’t have such constraint. this would allow for lighter shell in the same volume, or bigger and more destructive package with the same mass

or maybe some of shells were defective, idk

techbros graced everyone else with disruptive, innovative methods of money laundering

I read a lot of “back in my day, there weren’t smartphones” comments whenever the post talks about technology and smartphones, and I feel so left out.

reminder that not everyone is a westerner. my home village only had internet (adsl) like in 2008 or so

It’s also a reason why there’s Bill Clinton statue in Prishtinë

you’re joking, but there are people like Peter Thiel who throw money into transhumanist nonsense specifically because he thinks he’ll live forever thanks to that. cryonics, buckets of supplements, “enhanced games” as a non-FDA testing ground for immortality elixir for new emperor, and a couple of other things that i don’t remember right now, all because he’s so scared of dying

they also tend to learn language and integrate more easily, because, you know, they aren’t far right lunatics