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Timeship aims to store people at such low temperatures that their bodies are preserved for a future civilisation to reanimate them.
Based on a 800-acre plot of land just outside the small town of Comfort, Texas.
"will allow people to travel to another time in the future” - Stephen Valentine, director and principal architect.
Given a multimillion-dollar budget from anonymous donors to develop a ‘Mecca’ for cryonics and life extension.
It will also store biological samples such as organs, stem cells, embryos, and DNA of threatened species.
Site will also house the world’s largest life extension research centre, the Stasis Foundation Research Park.
The entire facility will be off-grid and located with low risk of natural disasters.
Design is an epic spaceship-castle hybrid, with thick, low, circular walls surrounding a central tomb-like chamber.
“wrong to dismiss the idea of whole-body freezing” - Prof Brian Grout, chairman of the Society for Low-Temperature Biology.
