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Inside Grandpa Bredo's House....Circa 1999
Have you ever wondered what was inside
Grandpa's shed?
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Welcome to a short guided tour of the environment of Grandpa
Bredo. DTI is the company charged with maintaining the environment of a
cryogenically frozen body, in order that it might be Re-Animated at some
future time when it will be possible to repair damage to the physical body
using nano-technology. Our client, Trygve Bauge, is very concerned that
something might happen to his Grandfather and ruin his chances of Re-Animation.
If we make a mistake, we run the risk of depriving Grandpa Bredo of this
chance at life......essentially "killing" him. Although unusual, we take
our job and responsibility very seriously here at DTI. |
| The first and last sight we see is the picture of Grandpa
Bredo we have to remind us that we are taking care of someone's "life".
Underneath his picture is the evergreen bough we put up for the christmas
season last year, along with two glasses we keep around for toasting Grandpa.
(Of course, the drink of choice is Old Grand Dad over (dry) ice.....;-)
The two sawhorses are for weight, to keep the lid flat and tight.
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Here's the freezer box with it's top 12 inches of insulation (in 7 layers!)
removed. There is one last tight fitting piece of insulation left to remove.......
The entire freezer box is lined with a special heat reflective bubble
plastic insulation.
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| The insides of the freezer box are seen in this image.......
It is filled with cardboard boxes that hold the dry ice. There is as much
packing placed around everything as can be gotten into the freezer box.
The packing keeps the air flow down as much as possible. Airflow sublimes
the CO2 faster than temperature. |
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The white mass seen in both images is the burial shroud and
pillow that are traditional in Norway. In the second image, you can see
the actual casket with the thermometer on top to monitor the temperature
at that point. It usually hovers around -60F. The wide black band is a strap
of metal used to reinforce the aluminum casket. Note the chain wrapped around
the casket. It was used to lower the casket into the box and is left there
to facilitate the eventual removal of the casket. |
The final task is to load the ice. we remove all the old pieces
and place them into one or two of the boxes, then load the new 60 pound
blocks into all the other empty boxes. Sometimes there are 15-20 pieces
ranging from 5-35 pounds.
After packing in the ice, we very carefully re-pack all the insulation in
it's numerous layers. The object is to try and get as good a seal as possible
around the edges. We even re-use several of the KFOX Radio banners that
were left behind as flexible edge seal fins and plastic liners between the
layers of insulation.
We close everything up and seal everything out......and we shut the door
on Grandpa Bredo's Shed until the next time. Three weeks later........ |
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