cryo sleep
Ice-cold suspended animation
Cryo sleep is a science fiction concept: suspended animation achieved by freezing a person's body to preserve it during long space voyages or into the distant future.
The sleeper ages little or not at all while frozen, waking when thawed: The colonists spent three centuries in cryo sleep before reaching the new planet.
Sometimes shortened to cryosleep.
- hibernationProlonged winter dormancy
- suspended animationHalted vital functions, reversible
- stasisState of inactivity
- deep freezeIntense prolonged cold
- frozenSolidified by extreme cold
pod · chamber · ice · preservation · life support · vital signs · awakening · spacecraft · interstellar · long haul · dormant · capsule · revival · wake up call · thaw · cold · vitals · dreamless
- space travelspaceship, starship, spacecraft, astronaut, rocket
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- space explorationrockets, Saturn V, satellites, mission, Falcon Heavy
- Space Ageastronaut, cosmonaut, rocket, satellite, spacecraft
cryo sleepwakefulness
State of being conscious
alertness · vigilance · lucidity · sentience · wide awake
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