From: Spike Jones (spike66@ibm.net)
Date: Mon Aug 24 1998 - 19:41:42 MDT
> spike wrote: >my post regarding transplantation of
> >one's head onto the body of a chimp might be taken as
> >a malicious chambers-like hoax, but it was not intended...
> >
> Hara Ra wrote: The requirements to have the chimp ready, the OR ready, etc,
>
> problems re tissue rejection, hormones, etc, are much more than those for
> having a transport team standby and the equipment set up for immediate
> cooling upon pronounciation of death...
hara, ive refined this a little in my mind. the chimp connection would only
be for a day or two, while the mind recovers from the shock of the operation
and prepares for the next (the freezing part). seems like a person starting
the cooling process would be better off with a young and healthy simian
body than with an old sick human one. in that short span, tissue rejection,
hormones, etc are not an issue, i dont think (?). (dammit jim, im a rocket
scientist,
not a doctor...{8^D) im now convinced a baboon body might be a better
idea too. they are less cute than chimps, and more plentyful, so the animal
rights
people might be less likely to protest.
wasnt there an aids guy who took a baboon transplant of bone marrow?
did he die? spike
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