There’s nothing more frustrating than sitting in a car on a long cross-country road trip that can last for days. Sure, the adrenaline is pumping at first because you’re excited for the adventure — you spend the first hour or two pumped, listening to your favorite happy-go-lucky music. Once that initial period of glee subsides, though, it becomes an impatient wait until you reach your destination. The stasis pods from the “Alien” franchise would be the perfect solution to a long wait like that.
The stasis pods cryogenically freeze the occupants, slowing down the aging process and keeping them perfectly preserved until they reach their destination. While those in the movies might have traveled for several lightyears, they wake up feeling like it had only been a few minutes — like waking up from a good night’s sleep. Not only would this little contraption make extended trips more bearable, but the stasis pods could also be used for people who want to see the future.
Like a time capsule or the cryopods from “Demolition Man,” freeze somebody and keep them frozen for hundreds of years. Then, wake them up in the future. At the very least, it’s a good invention for when humanity finally achieves interstellar travel. Astronauts could survive a trip to the Andromeda galaxy, which is over 2.5 billion light years away from Earth.
