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"The whole problem of energy sources is going to be solved by little solutions, not by some big new piece of technology that does everything. We got into this crisis by believing that we had one big piece of technology that would do everything (oil)."
- Gregory Benford

Cold-Rest  
  Lowering body temperature and metabolic levels, as in hibernation; also called reduced temperature somnolence.  

In Methuselah's Children, one hundred thousand people steal a space ship with room for only about one-fifth as many. To save space (and reduce boredom during a long voyage) many of them opt for the hibernation state of cold-rest.

The ship slipped back into the same monotonous routine that had obtained during the weary years of the first jump. Most of the Members went into cold-rest; the others tended them, tended the ship, tended the hydroponds. Among the somnolents was Slayton Ford; cold-rest was a common last resort therapy for functional psychoses.
Technovelgy from Methuselah's Children, by Robert Heinlein.
Published by Astounding Science-Fiction in 1941
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See also cold-sleep from the same novel; cold-sleep is also mentioned in Between Planets.

The term "cold-rest" is used more frequently in the story than "cold-sleep".

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