Artificial torpor

[james_davis_nicoll]

Apparently they've induced hibernation in animals that don't normally hiberate.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4469793.stm

Comments

Re: AAAGGGGHHHHH!!!!!

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

There's no part of Canada that will kill you dead as quickly as any place in the system off Earth. If you can settle Mars, Manitoba should be easy.

Re: AAAGGGGHHHHH!!!!!

[liveavatar.livejournal.com]

You're paying for the prestige address. I mean, which is more hip, a cryo-condo in Manitoba or a Sattlemeier disk house in Amazonis Planitia?
"Dahling, all the best people are moving to Tharsis."

Okay, getting serious for just a moment: the thing about settling any part of Mars, even the dodgy part, is that it's making history. People will pay with time, money, elbow grease, and family ties for the privilege of settling there. Not only that, they'll know they're in for long-term hardship and therefore won't expect much from their surroundings. But for a lot of the hardy pioneers, the wilds of Manitoba might be simultaneously too near and too far.

I'm already distracting myself from other work by posting here, or I'd look up what people expect from life in Siberia these days.

Re: AAAGGGGHHHHH!!!!!

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

'm already distracting myself from other work by posting here, or I'd look up what people expect from life in Siberia these days.

A ticket to any place warm, is my impression.