From: Rafal Smigrodzki (rms2g@virginia.edu)
Date: Wed Aug 28 2002 - 11:03:18 MDT
Terry W. Colvin wrote:
And once the information is lost, even developing a thawing process that is
100% efficient and looses no information at all, you'll still have a badly
damaged brain. Remember that your brain will be frozen after you die, and
unlike other tissues which can survive for significant periods (hours or
more) with no oxigen, brain damage becomes irreversible after a couple of
minutes.
### Utterly false. As a practicing neurologist I can assure you that a
couple of minutes (or even a couple of hours) of anoxia is not sufficient to
irreversibly destroy brain tissue (want refs?)
Rafal
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