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ag987654321 t1_ixl3lm2 wrote

Wasn’t there a Tom Scott episode where he talked to the inventor of the microwave oven (or prototype) that he used to revive frozen hamsters… apparently the largest creature you can freeze and revive relatively reliably..

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i-lurk-you-longtime t1_ixlql7i wrote

Yep! I watched it recently and I was so unbelievably sleep deprived that I actually thought I had imagined that until now lol. Especially because it sounds kind of ridiculous! But it's definitely there in his videos!

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pbmadman t1_ixmnh48 wrote

Yep, my takeaway was anything smaller than a hamster you can just toss in the freezer and later revive in a microwave and anything bigger you can’t. So single cells or small groups of cells seems pretty trivial.

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ObviouslyHatesSuarez t1_ixmw6kd wrote

When one is thawing a hamster in a microwave (hypothetically) what power level would be best to use for a safe thaw?

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