It should be a sort of hybridal process between hibernation and suspended
animation, since they don't age, but beards grow.
And remember how the girl died...



--- In pota@yahoogroups.com, "James" <JamesA1102@...> wrote:
>
>
> Here's a question. Were the astronauts in POTA really in Suspended
> Animation or were they in some kind of induced medical coma?
>
> I ask this because they continues to age as shown by their growing
> beards. If they were in Suspended Animation shouldn't that not have
> happened?
>
>
> --- In pota@yahoogroups.com, "Terry Hoknes" <hoknescards@> wrote:
> >
> > Good question
> > i'm not sure if the concept ever happened in
> > Star Trek or Doctor Who or Lost In Space back in the 60s
> >
> > It would seem to me that maybe that was the only way they could
> comprehend a way for humans to make a long journey - not sure what other
> options there could be
> >
> > An off-topic question would be what else did POTA do that was
> innovative for a sci-fi movie that had not been done with other 60s
> sci-fi films?
> >
> > I think we should work on a 60's index of sci-fi movies
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > POTA and 2001 came out at about the same time, and both relied upon
> the technique of deep sleep to accomplish long space travels. I saw them
> both at a drive-in back then. I can't remember films using hibernation
> before that, but then, I was about 8 years old. Does anyone know when
> hibernation debuted as a sci-fi film phenomenon?
> > FF
> >
>