Ephera

I believe, these posts just mirror what’s posted to the Far Side webpage, and there it happens that this comic from 1986 got posted again yesterday: https://www.thefarside.com/2024/10/28/4

Mothman?

Yep, that’s the fun part of this whole cryogenic thing. In order for your body to make it into the 25th century or whatever, it needs to be continuously frozen for multiple centuries.
No defects, no prolonged power outages, no human errors, no your great-great-great-grandchildren deciding they don’t want to pay for keeping a guy frozen they never met.

And even if your frozen body somehow makes it to the 25th century and they actually have the technology to restore your freeze-damaged body, you still need whoever’s alive then, to care to actually do that thing…

The German word is beautiful, by the way: Gaumenzäpfchen

“Gaumen” is the roof of the mouth (palate).

And a “Zäpfchen” is a small “Zapfen”, which is a thing that protrudes from something, e.g. an icicle is an “Eiszapfen” and a pine cone is a “Tannenzapfen”.

It’s like someone took the sentence in the picture and made a word out of it. 🙃