From: spike66 (spike66@attglobal.net)
Date: Sun Mar 10 2002 - 20:49:59 MST
John Clark wrote:
><fortean1@mindspring.com> Wrote:
>
> > As is well-known, merely "freezing" a body doesn't prevent it from
> > decaying.
>
>That's true, +32 degrees Fahrenheit where water freezes is not nearly good
>enough, but liquid nitrogen a substance at -321 degrees Fahrenheit and
>cheaper than milk will prevent decay just fine, provided the time is less than 10 billion years or so. John K Clark jonkc@att.net
>
Of course the decay of the carbon 14 in the DNA would be
nearly unaffected by the temperature, so there may still be
some decay over a relatively short time frame.
Should cryonics become popular, I plan to start a business
where I grow vegetables in a special hermetic greenhouse
that has as its only source of carbon dioxide the combustion
products of coal. By devouring only such vagetables over
a period of time, a prole might cleanse her body of all
potentially damaging 6kyr halflife elements. I might also
collect deuterium free water from a separation plant, and
use this to water the vegetables. Then I sell these specially
grown veggies to the proletariat at enormous profits.
Furthermore, I would get a warm feeling inside, knowing
that I am doing a good deed as a technogaian, helping
serve the earth goddess by burning coal, thus retrieving
carbon that is otherwise lost to the carbon cycle and placing
it back into circulation, for technogaia's living creatures
to thrive upon.
We could even come up with cutesy product names
for vegetables made up entirely of stable isotopes,
such as spike's vege-stables. spike
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