A small Texas town will soon play host to a real life Wayward Pines when it becomes home to 50,000 cryogenically frozen bodies that scientists hope to thaw out hundreds of years in the future.
Comfort, Texas, will be the home of Timeship Village, a disaster-proof complex storing frozen bodies and biological material that is capable of surviving terror attacks and rising sea levels, says TimeShip.org.
"DNA, tissue samples, and cryopreserved patients will be housed in Timeship, and their safety and security against all threats, both natural and human-made, will have to be maintained for hundreds of years."
Designed by architect Stephen Valentine, the new Mecca of cryogenics is set to become the largest center of research and cryopreservation in the world.
The landmark Timeship Building will be located at the center of a town surrounded by a massive plot of land that's encircled by high walls and guarded by a tall city gate. Eventually, the cryogenic complex will be completed with housing dormitories, libraries, research laboratories, conference space, its own power supply, and an agriculture center, says TimeShip.org.
"We're taking people to the future!"
Cryonics is the science of freezing people who are sick and dying with the hope that they will be able to be revived, or thawed out, in the future and their ailments cured.
There is currently no way to reverse the cryogenic freezing process and revive those already frozen, but earlier this year, scientists were able to revive the brain of a cryonically frozen rabbit, which they claim gives hope of a breakthrough in the future.
Valentine hopes his Timeship Village will help pioneer life extension research and enable him to grant those preserved by the cryogenic freezing process eternal life free from health defects.
