Inspired by a reddit thread… Given that vacuum is a pretty effective dehydrator, would it make sense to vacuum-mummify a body first before freezing it for cryopreservation?
Which points out that your blood wouldn’t boil only while your heart is beating.
It also says “During this time, water vapor will form rapidly in the soft tissues and somewhat less rapidly in the venous blood. This evolution of water vapor will cause marked swelling of the body to perhaps twice its normal volume unless it is restrained by a pressure suit.” Of course if the body is in a pressure suit there isn’t much dehydration going on.
Inspired by a reddit thread… Given that vacuum is a pretty effective dehydrator, would it make sense to vacuum-mummify a body first before freezing it for cryopreservation?
Wouldn’t the body liquids boil destroying all kinds of fine structures..?
http://www.geoffreylandis.com/vacuum.html
Which points out that your blood wouldn’t boil only while your heart is beating.
It also says “During this time, water vapor will form rapidly in the soft tissues and somewhat less rapidly in the venous blood. This evolution of water vapor will cause marked swelling of the body to perhaps twice its normal volume unless it is restrained by a pressure suit.” Of course if the body is in a pressure suit there isn’t much dehydration going on.
So you get even more denaturation and membrane distortion (and possibly rupture)?