From: Gina Miller (nanogirl@halcyon.com)
Date: Fri Jul 12 2002 - 00:07:43 MDT
You have a point, but if the levels are low enough the warming would start at the top and I would prefer that be my feet. I would rather the uninitiated be disturbed and feel more secure in the risks not being directed to my brain, the most important part of my body, what makes me who I am. In fact, I think that those who are disturbed, will be no matter what position we are in.
Gina Miller
spike wrote: ...oddball things the daughter of Ted Williams mentioned is that the corpses are stored head down. Why do they do that? spike
Greg Burch wrote:There's actually a very good reason: So that any temporary failure inthe liquid nitrogen "topping off" regimen will result in thawing of thefeet first, and the head last. It does have the unfortunate effect ofrunning counter to our billions-of-years evolved preference for havingthings be "right-side-up".Greg BurchVice-President, Extropy Institutehttp://www.gregburch.net
OK, but after thinking this over I disagree with the logic of it.
Imagine a dewar filled with LN2. Terrorist attack, local nuke,
(fill in appropriate disaster), no one around to refill dewar, LN2
begins to boil off. As long as *any* LN2 is present anywhere
in that dewar, the corpsicles remain frozen hard, in a mostly
gaseous chemically neutral nitrogen environment at not much
above LN2 temps. The returning corpsicle-rescuers might find
safely and solidly frozen patients poking half outta the liquid.
Since it seems to disturb the uninitiated for whatever wacky reason,
I would propose that Alcor drop the upsidedown thing. spike
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