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View Poll Results: You are cryogenically frozen. When would you like to be revived?
10 years 2 7.69%
100 years 9 34.62%
1,000 years 8 30.77%
10,000 years 2 7.69%
100,000 years 0 0%
1,000,000 years 1 3.85%
10,000,000 years 0 0%
100,000,000 years 2 7.69%
I like polls 2 7.69%
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Old 02-25-2010, 08:24 AM
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DMM of the Irregular Webcomic includes a poll that updates weekly. This week's is interesting, and I wanted to hear from the AO on it. Assume the choices given are the only options. The last choice is for those who don't want to vote at all, not to be able to create a write-in.

Please provide a reason for your vote.

ETA: Pretend "Resuscitated" is spelled correctly.
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Can I be resuscitated and refrozen every 10 years or so until I find myself in a decade that I like?
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10 years--greatest probability Mrs Browncoat will still be alive.
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When will we finally have flying cars and moon colonies?
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If I'm going to be cryogenically frozen, might as well make it 1000 years. If it was 10 years, it would suck, because I would have missed so much and feel like I should be able to adapt back into society, but feel out of place. Not to mention that I would still be my age and all my friends 10 years older. If it was 100 years, it would be weird, because not enough will have changed, but enough that I likely would be out of place. After 1000 years, it would be like entering a whole new world, and maybe a decendant is filthy rich.
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Please provide a reason for your vote.
I voted 1,000.

Because it's the same choice I voted the first time I answered the poll this morning, over on the IWC site.
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The risk reward for 10 years isn't there. 10 years of advances and interest on my checking account don't mean that much. But there is still the chance the world is destroyed.

1000 years you are rich as hell and the advances in pr0n will be amazing
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