Re: FOX orders "Virtuality" backdoor pilot

In article <M9WdnTykad-LSZ7VnZ2dnUVZ_q-jnZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, PV
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> wrote:

> "Obveeus" <Obveeus@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
> >"~consul" <consul@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >> More recently, Stargate: Atlantis had a ****p of Ancients travelling
back 
> >> from some other place placed >in hibernation and living out lives in
a 
> >> simulation for nearly 10K years.
> >
> >What did the space travelers in 2001 Space Odyssey and in 'Alien' do
while 
> >in hibernation? 
> 
> We never saw anyone wake up from cold sleep in 2001 and talk about it,
so
> no ideas there. It's quite clear in the case of "Aliens", though, that 
> there's no sense of time passing while in hibernation. Ripley slept for
57
> years between "alien" and "aliens", yet other than some groggyness that
> passed in a couple days at most, she was unchanged by the experience. *

The Japanese comic '2001 Nights' had a short story which had an
interesting take on this. Every person who woke from hibernation was
crying, because while asleep their soul was taking the same trip it
would take in death and they were snatched back just as all the truths
in the universe were going to be reviled. They never had any memory of
it, naturally.

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