X-Message-Number: 10715 From: Subject: Impossibility References: <> Date: Sat, 07 Nov 1998 14:07:29 EST 1. I do not know who will prove revival possible/impossible. I do not know when this will happen. But eventually one or the other options will be proven (if civilization survives). 2. Some things really are impossible. Faster than light travel is one (and no-one would enjoy the development of an FTL starship more than me!). Getting work from a perpetual motion machine is another. Finding the last digit of pi is yet another. At one time, each of these seemed possible, but with further knowledge we know better. 3. Cryonics is definitely possible...people are frozen in liquid nitrogen even now. The question is whether they will ever wake up. If someone is cremated and their ashes scattered, revival is impossible. If someone stops breathing for 2 seconds, "revival" is definitely possible (I just held my breath for two seconds, so there!). Where are Dr. Bedford and the other "corpsicles" located on this spectrum? I don't know. Right now NOBODY _knows_. 4. My point was that research in cryo-biology is a good thing, even if our particular dream does not materialize. Other applications of that research may help people with other medical conditions than death...even if that only turns out to be frostbite! or Tom Mazanec to humans ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=10715