Cryogenic News of the Week:
Was Walt Disney Cryogenically Frozen? NASA Thinks We Could Be Martians, A Nobel Prize for Finding Argon

October 2, 2015

cryogenic links of the week - Walt Disney Cryogenics

The Walt Disney Cryogenic Myth Unveiled 9/14/2015

There is nothing in the PBS profile about Walt Disney being cryogenically frozen. "One of his animators thought it would be funny to spread the rumor," Director Sarah Colt said. "It took hold because people didn't want him to die." read more via Orlando Sentinel

cryogenic links of the week - water on Mars

NASA: We Might Be Martians, Or At Least Purify Mars' Water for Future (Homecoming) Manned Missions 9/30/2015

The discovery of liquid water on Mars raises the possibility that that water could be purified to create rocket fuel, which is often made out of liquid hydrogen or liquid oxygen. "Mars is looking more and more like a potential habitat for extant life that could be transferred from Earth. Some people say we're Martians. It could go either way." read more via Vice.com

cryogenic links of the week - noble gasses nobel prize

A Nobel Prize for Noble Gases 10/1/2015

William Ramsay isolated helium in 1898, and identified three more "noble" gases: neon, krypton, and xenon. The sluggish behavior of one previously unknown gas, argon, in the atmosphere won him the first Nobel prize awarded to a British scientist. read more via Newsworks

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