In science fiction masterpieces like "Alien", we often see the crew of the spaceship through dormancy technology, interstellar travel for hundreds of years, in this dormant state, human metabolism almost completely stopped, we can go to a certain time in the future to thaw, in the "Three-Body" Chapter North Sea, logic through this technology to go hundreds of years later, leading the earthlings against the Trisolaran.
This technology is not to make people immortal, but to give us the right to choose the time period of survival, if you have an incurable disease you can choose technology to sleep in a better era of medical technology, but it is also possible that you travel to a worse world, which is similar to you will travel to an unknown time and space, facing unknown risks, but even so, we are still eager for this, because people are always full of fantasies about the future, "hope" is the fourth major survival factor after "water, air, sunshine".
But this world is so absurd, human beings desperately pursue but can not do things, some animals easily do it, the lamp moth caterpillar is a caterpillar living in Antarctica, its life can go through decades of dormancy, in the fourteenth year of life to complete the cocoon into a butterfly, become the longest-lived moth in history.
We often say that there is no ice in the middle of summer, we are talking about caterpillars, their lifespan is extremely short, it is difficult to survive to winter.
Ordinary moths from caterpillars to butterflies, the entire life time is short of a few weeks, the length is not more than a year, but the life of the lamp moth caterpillar can run through 14 years, which lives more than ten or twenty times that of the same type of organism, if compared with humans, it is Pengzu who has lived for 800 years.
The lamp moth caterpillar lets us know: summer worms can speak ice.
Every spring, the lamp moth caterpillars wake up from the frozen state, they begin to collect food, desperately eat to accumulate energy, in preparation for casting cocoon butterflies, but the Antarctic spring is too short, the lamp moth caterpillars can not store the energy needed to transform the butterflies, so when winter comes, they will hide under the rocks, but the Antarctic winter is too cold, the rocks can only let them shelter from the wind and rain, but the cold will go deep underground.
Soon, the heart of the lamp moth caterpillar will stop beating, the blood and internal organs will be completely frozen, after four months of darkness, the Antarctic ice and snow will slowly melt, and when the next spring, the lamp moth caterpillar will wake up in hibernation, it will continue its last unfinished business, desperately eating, desperately growing, but even so its reserves are still insufficient, when winter comes, it is frozen again.
So the cycle goes on and on, when it reaches the age of 14, it finally completes the accumulation, in this spring it will spit out filaments to weave a cocoon for itself, complete the metamorphosis in it, it finally becomes a winged moth, but it has only a few days left, these days it will desperately find a partner, complete the lifelong event, this is the life of the lamp moth caterpillar.
They are the hardy creatures in the world, they can survive in minus 70 degrees Celsius, and although their lives span 14 years, they spend most of their time frozen, and if they are counted together, they do not live much longer than other caterpillars.
For the lamp moth caterpillar, whether it is a caterpillar that has lived for 14 years, or counted as the caterpillar's 14 times of life is more appropriate, the caterpillar probably does not have the ability to remember for a long time, perhaps they can not remember what happened in the previous life, they just act by instinct, each time thawing, it becomes a brand new lamp moth caterpillar, with the same body through 14 reincarnations.
Are you a person in the mirror?
If human beings have similar abilities, can hibernate through to the future, wake up to the world to undergo earth-shaking changes, last night's relatives and friends are absent, the world is strange, in addition to the vague memories in the brain, in the real world, can not find any traces, the essence of human beings is memory, experience bred by the whole set of behavioral logic and the role they play, when the two essential changes, then you or you?