Would it be a good idea to shoot cryogenically frozen people out into space in the hope aliens will find them?

Question

I am quite serious in this question.

Hundreds of humans (having died) lie in a cryogenically frozen state in the hope that one day they will be revived. Why not have some program where people can opt to die, and then are launched into space in come capsule or tube so they can careen through the cosmos for centuries or even eons or even longer?

Imagine waking up in a million years, having been revived by some alien super intelligence?

Would you sign up for this?

Answer 1

Great idea.  You can pay for the rockets.

Answer 2

Here are some things to consider - at the moment, it still costs millions to put something the weight of a human into space. The remains of people have been sent into space as ashes, but the cost of a cryogenically frozen body would be in the millions per body. And the likelihood of being found by an alien civilisation is close to zero (much as I wish it wasn't), and those odds don't get any better after a few eons of drifting. The capsule will either vanish into nowhere, or be pulled by gravity into an object and be destroyed. Maybe in a century or two, when we've met the Vulcans and built the Enterprise, we'll have more options. (I am quite serious in this answer).

Answer 3

Given the size of the universe and the size of the human body I don't think they would ever be found.  If you think of it that way then it would be really use just launching our waste into space.

Answer 4

sure if you wake up millions of years later in an unkown planet, with weird people staring at you it would be great. but when nothing picks you up because no intelligent life forms are in a 100 light year vacinity, i think it would suck to wake up and die instantly.

i would personally rather rot in the ground like we have done for centuries, but thats just me.

Answer 5

No. I think it is a waste of resources. I would rather my biological heirs take possession of my wealth and continue my line with the advantages it will bring them.

And, in my opinion, one day those bodies in the cryogenic tubes will be dragged out and buried by people who will laugh at the dead for being so arrogant. Or else the power that keeps them cold will fail and their bodies will rot and stink until evaporation turns them into dust.

But let's suppose that what you imagine happens. Cryogenically frozen people are sent into space and are found many centuries later by aliens who revive them. Competitive struggle is the law of life throughout this universe; it is as constant as the law of gravity. Those aliens aren't going to be "nice" to the revived humans. Instead, they will use them to determine the location of Earth - a wonderful prize for an interstellar race to find. And when they arrive here to conquer us, they will already have developed virus weapons that will wipe us out, by studying the DNA of the revived humans.

Answer 6

why not ???? there'd be nothing to lose!!!!bet it would cost a fortune though....if the casket crashed in to another planet do you think the rotting corpse could create life on another planet???? .....give you something to think about....

Answer 7

deep space radiation would be your major problem... its going to reek havock with your frozen body over the period of meny meny years!

Answer 8

with my luck i would land on a pre-historic planet

Answer 9

I wouldn't sign up for it. Space is vast, the chances of being found (even if the power source keeping you frozen didn't die out, or you didn't get sucked into somethings gravity well) would be next to nothing. You'd be better off staying on Earth and hoping some benevolent alien race discovers Earth. Of course since our physical makeups would be completely different from an alien race, they may not even be able to help.

Answer 10

I can't think of anything worse... Other than spending time considering this topic that is

Answer 11

nah i wouldnt take the chance..well, not yet