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There *is* no big deal going on there, AFAIK. People have been coping with existential dread for millennia, and at this point it would be weird to expect otherwise.
My points mainly involve the fact that historically, cryo-preservation doesn’t work as intended, however much improved it might be at this point. Also, there’s the inevitable subtext that in a civilisation racing towards collapse, the idea that you’re going to miraculously defy all odds, somehow coming back to live happier days someplace seems borderline-hilarious to me.
More probable as I see it is building yourself a rocket ship and settling on luna, where you’ll enjoy feasts of moon-cheese for the rest of your days. 🙂
Yeah I get it, nicely put too.
I’m much less a doomer myself and we’re potentially on the cusp of super longevity and more (yay bunker cheeze after the nuclear war for centuries 😉).
For the record, I don’t claim to be a doomer in the slightest, just someone who seeks to understand the trajectories of late-stage capitalism and global climate change. But yeah, as you say, science is always coming up with exciting new breakthroughs and such.
Btw, are you the major Moebius appreciator from a couple years ago?
Yeah, Luna colony sounds great until you run across the Nazi stronghold on one your cheese walks.
In which case “schipelblorp!” seems like an unusally-apt exclamation in such cases? :D