Maybe.But at least cryonics and life-extension invalidates the 'who cares, I won't be around for it' attitude...

Not to mention the rest of the Universe, which you'd now have time for...

Actually, he was fortunate to have found two women who were supportive of the idea of cryonics:

Um, you always have the option to end your life, whether after 100 or 1000 years...

Would you say that if I simply bought a car for the same price, or more?

Death doesn't always have a nice hard dividing line. (as demonstrated by those people who fall through ice, 'drown' but ate still recoverable as much as an hour later, due to the cold...and they're not even frozen themselves. Consider the scene in 'The Abyss' that took advantage of this phenomenon.)

Yeah? When Picard ran across a capsule with cryopreserved Earth humans, he was first inclined to leave them there, even though they had the technology to revive them, spouting some philosophical drivel about how people 'today' don't fear the inevitability of death (yet he doesn't hesitate to raise those shields, if he…

No one said anything about 'conscious.' (Though there was an interesting Niven short story; 'Wait it Out' that's related to that)

The same (likely nano)technology that would repair the freezing damage.

This explains it very nicely:

"Man Who Vowed to Live Forever Died Over the Weekend"

Why not?

Ah, okay. I missed it because I didn't quite understand that entire line when it was spoken. Thanks.

There was indeed an Avengers post-credits 'teaser-trailer' here in Rochester, NY today (Saturday)...

Really? I kept thinking; "This would be a good time for a discreet Indy reference..." but I don't recall actually hearing one...

Hear, hear!

Sisko was the First Officer there. A Vulcan was in command, and (IIRC) died in that engagement.

I tried to not let that trip my trigger, so I'll just say...Howard's right.

beefmalone, if you're referring to the James Webb Space Telescope, that is (was?) intended to operate at the first Earth-Sun Lagrange point. The Shuttle could never get there to service it.

"What we need is a spaceship - an exploration and science-oriented class of vehicles designed not for one specific mission, but to travel from Earth orbit to a location, do science, and then come back, refuel, restock and do it again. "