Today I caught 5 of those little insects that fly around the
light bulbs, and I kept them in a small cylinder, filled it with
water, and kept it in the freezer for an hour. Then, I took the
cylinder out and I saw that the insects were frozen solid in a
block of ice. I let the ice melt for 5 minutes and retrieved the
bodies. The insects were motionless. They didnt move for another 5
minutes. Then suddenly, their feelers and legs started waving about
in the air, and within 10 minutes, each insect was as alive and
healthy as it were before I froze them. This is really incredible!
I’ve always thought that suspended animation only occured in simple
micro-organisms. I had NEVER thought this
would happen to a complex life form such as an insectoid. If humans
had exoskeletons, we could survive centuries, frozen in time, in
ice. Then we would be thawed in the future and it’ll be as if we
were awaken from a deep sleep, only to continue life after it has
been stopped, or suspended, for hundreds of years. This branch of
science, known as Cryonics, may be possible after all, but only if
humans had thicker skin, and organs which spread out all over the
body instead of in specific places in the body…
