Re: Backup Body Scans!

From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Thu Apr 26 2001 - 10:26:41 MDT


torsdagen den 26 april 2001 17:55 Brent Allsop wrote:
> Eugene Leitl <Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de> and Anders Sandberg
> <asa@nada.kth.se> weren't to impressed with Dr Marks proposals.
>
> I didn't say it was an alternative already, just that it could
> become an alternative some day. Our ability to scan at ever
> increasing resolutions is increasing just like computer power and
> everything else isn't it?

Not as far as I know. There are some rather hard physical limits to the
resolution of NMR (heating of tissue due to shifting fields, signal-to-noise
ratio vs scan time).

> I didn't get the impression that Dr Marks
> was attempting to sell land on mars, but merely proposing that it
> might be possible for us to attempt to go to Mars.

Sure, but the site sounded like he was trying.



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