From: john grigg (starman125@hotmail.com)
Date: Thu Feb 17 2000 - 18:14:29 MST
Spud wrote:
Tell ya what, when scientists are hitting the news with humans volunteers
being revived (before death!) fromcryo-sleep/preservation--the world will
beat a path to Alcor's door. Good luck and success!- -
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It sure will!!! BUT, the technology to do this is a LONG way off,
especially considering how little money is spent on it. Even the cryonics
organizations out there, having relatively minor resources, don't see
research for this goal as practical.
I wish the pentagon would allocate a good fifty million to try to achieve
this so mortally wounded troops could be saved. But again, they see this
technology as just too far off to bother researching. Of course the cost,
skills needed to do it and the nature of the equipment would make
implementing this out in the field extremely hard.
Robert Ettinger stated recently that if this technology were perfected you
would see extremely well-funded startups spring up that would leave Alcor
and CI in the dust. This would be one case of people not minding being
beaten by the competition.
For now, the realistic goal is to simply improve the currently nonreversible
methods of cryonic suspension, as to cause as little damage to brain
structure as possible.
sincerely,
John Grigg
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