From: Spike Jones (spike66@ibm.net)
Date: Sun Nov 08 1998 - 10:15:09 MST
> Peter Passaro wrote: For those of you interested in cryogenics,
> a very interesting article from New Scientist.
>
> http://www.newscientist.co.uk/cgi-bin/pageserver.cgi?/ns/981107/nretina.html
for those who are up to speed on cryonics, a question please:
our tissues are mostly carbon and carbon has an isotope (C14)
with half life about 6kyr. when C14 undergoes beta decay, the
remainder is a nitrogen atom. looks like the dna chain would
be broken there. would the cell then be dead? dependent
on a nanobot to find and repair the break? have there been
calculations done on this? spike
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