What was the sci-fi author who wrote the series (was it 'Known Space'?) that had the 'Slavers'.
Extinct for a long, long time but there were artifacts in the form of storage boxes that could preserve anything & I believe there was even a story concerning something that was stil alive!

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On Friday, February 5, 2021, 10:52:30 AM MST, xxxxxx@gmail.com <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:


Let's add a few:

Rich folks investing in fairly safe, modest return situations and then napping for 20 years or 40 years to come out with a nice nest egg (a bit of a risk, but maybe not so much). Or speculating into precious metals or real estate and 'timing out' to let value accumulate.

Shipping key operatives (various corps and governments) around so they just go from op to op with minimal downtime and keep sharp. Also means they have longer total time in service if you don't need constant op tempo.

'Break glass in case of emergency' on planets - first responders, replacement political and military leaders, whomever you might need if things go south suddenly or a serious incident happens to threaten a colonies viability. Frozen watch isn't just for Navy ships.

Now, this next one would assume that if we can store a person without damage, we can do the same with less complex organics: Wine and spirits being kept in a wine cellar (after the normal aging) - the product won't go off and you'd be able to enjoy the wines your grandfather did.... and you could charge big money in restaurants that could pull out old vintages.

Seed banks could use cryo to keep their seed stock viable for generations. Virus banks (so as to have a virus around if one needs it to build new vaccines or to weaponize if one is a government of bad intent) as well.

The simple one: Time capsuling with high fidelity. Random crap you leave for descendants or just whoever finds the thing.

Storing fauna from other planets (such as LV-426). Not always a good idea if they wake up.

Transfer of any perishable substances like meds or other biologics that need shipped to someplace. In fact, there may be a whole biological suspension containers in the shipping industry - have their own battery (for the expected durations) - sort of a super freezer.

Storing Pfizer vaccines.

That's all I got....



On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 4:09 PM Kurt Feltenberger <xxxxxx@thepaw.org> wrote:
I seem to remember reading an article about low berths in either the
original TAS or maybe MTJ about how professional athletes and performers
used low berths as a way to "extend their shelf life" by going into them
between seasons and jobs.  This, the article suggested, allowed a
professional athlete to have almost twice the effective career length as
he would have had otherwise, being in the low berth for about half a
year at a stretch.  Performers had a somewhat longer window as they
would only be "thawed" for a few months to do the production and then go
back under until something else of value came along.  Given the way we
can do deep fakes, and extrapolating that and green screen technology,
I'm not sure there will even be live performers for vid shows, but
that's another thread entirely.

What really kicked off this thought exercise was something I'm currently
writing.  One of the characters has two puppies that he's going to show
in the puppy class at the dog show, and I started wondering how a low
berth would be able to extend a show dog's career.  Once they win their
Championship title, the next is Grand Champion and beyond that it's all
ribbons for the "such a good dog!" wall.  It takes a year, maybe two or
more depending on how often the dog is shown and how many dogs are in
each show.  Sometimes, once a dog becomes a Champion, the handler will
retire it and only show the dog in certain shows.

This would work with just about any type of competition that used an
animal; horse races, poni races, whatever.  It would allow the effective
career to be extended to several times that of a normal lifetime, while
also allowing the animal to be steadily bred.

Beyond this, I could also see certain governments using the frozen watch
concept writ large; they want a large military, but rather than have
five million people under arms, they put three million in dispersed
bunkers on extended "tours" of duty and only raise them when they're needed.

Anyway, I'm curious how others might use the low berth in an unexpected
manner.

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Kurt Feltenberger
xxxxxx@thepaw.org/xxxxxx@yahoo.com
“Before today, I was scared to live, after today, I'm scared I'm not living enough." - Me

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