From: Greg Burch (gregburch@gregburch.net)
Date: Thu Jul 11 2002 - 05:24:19 MDT
> -----Original Message-----
> [mailto:owner-extropians@extropy.org] On Behalf Of spike66
>
> One of the oddball things the daughter of Ted Williams
> mentioned is that the corpses are stored head down. Why do
> they do that? Couldnt they put Williams in there head up, if
> his moronic daughter has a problem with it?
>
> spike
There's actually a very good reason: So that any temporary failure in
the liquid nitrogen "topping off" regimen will result in thawing of the
feet first, and the head last. It does have the unfortunate effect of
running counter to our billions-of-years evolved preference for having
things be "right-side-up".
Greg Burch
Vice-President, Extropy Institute
http://www.gregburch.net
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