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Could We Go Into Torpor?
Could we one day put ourselves into a state of hibernation and wake up in a different time zone feeling pretty good? That would be greatwbe fantastic. Researchers like matteo are intrigued by stories of people entering a sort of state of torpor, including one published in 18 hundred about an entire village in russia that would sleep through the winter. So it will all depend on how easy and risky technology would be. But why put a limit to our hope?
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