From: den Otter (neosapient@geocities.com)
Date: Wed May 26 1999 - 17:36:17 MDT
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> From: Technotranscendence <neptune@mars.superlink.net>
> At 12:56 PM 5/26/99 -0700, Eugene Leitl <eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de>
> wrote:
> > > notarized and I'm set. Folks at the office were joking about getting
> > > me a special spacesuit with a built-in guillotine and a liquid
> > > nitrogen bottle. Nice to know they care...
> >
> >Stanislav Lem covered that ground with built-in guillotine
> >vitrificators in his diglators (crawl-in walking machine)
> >in Fiasko.
>
> Actually, there was no guillotine in them. It was whole body.
> At least, this was how it was in the English translation.
>
> But the concept should not be taken as a joke.
No, in fact it might be a good thing to see if something like a
(semi-)automatic perfusion/cooling machine couldn't be made
already (within reasonable price limits). It would certainly
help a lot if the initial phases of a cryotransport were simplified
so that all you had to to is place the deceased in a capsule,
and push a couple of buttons. The washout might require
some extra human assistence (plugging in the tubes etc.),
but external cooling (and perhaps internal as well, using the
cryovent cooling/oxigenating system) could be easily automated.
Saves everybody a lot of trouble, and looks really neat (the
capsule, I mean).
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