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 | | From: | John Smith | | Subject: | Re: where can i sign up to get my body frozen when im dead | | Date: | Tue, 14 Dec 2004 16:52:25 GMT |
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 | For cryonics, start here:
http://www.alcor.org/
You'll get all the info. you need. Also you might want to read "Engines
of Creation" by Eric Drexler to get an idea about how cryonics could
even be possible as a method of life extension.
kris wrote:
> For in fact i have my sources in cryogenics. thank you and they have
> tests that have came back from animals that they have died from being
> frozen after 20 minutes.
> Joann Evans wrote:
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>>kris wrote:
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>>>yes but they haven't found a way to keep ur brain from emploding
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> yet.
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>>>and that would be a problem if u were crofroze now. they will find
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>>>way in the next 30 to 40 years on how to keep the brain from
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> emploding
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>> I believe the word you want is 'implode.'
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>> And where, exactly, were you told that this happens to the brain?
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>> A *slight* shrinkage is a normal, expected, carefully monitored
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> part
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>>of the suspension procedure, but that's as far as it gets...
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>> You know what to remove, to reply....
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| | From: | Paul Antonik Wakfer | | Subject: | Re: where can i sign up to get my body frozen when im dead | | Date: | Tue, 14 Dec 2004 18:38:28 -0500 |
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| John Smith wrote:
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> Also you might want to read "Engines
> of Creation" by Eric Drexler to get an idea about how cryonics could
> even be possible as a method of life extension.
First, as far as its cryonics ideas go, "Engines of Creation" is way out
of date. IMO, the book probably did more harm than good for cryonics,
because it attracted far too many people who are simply content to do
nothing to advance the science of cryopreservation and to instead wait
for Nanotechnology to solve all problems.
Second, nanotechnology is not a necessary condition for cryopreservation
to become a fully reversible medical procedure. Current vitrification
methods are approaching that goal more closely all the time. I fully
expect that reversible whole body cryopreservation will be perfected as
a standard medical procedure long before nanomedicine is ready to
restore anyone currently cryopreserved.
--Paul Wakfer
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