X-Message-Number: 13340 From: "John de Rivaz" <> References: <> Subject: sound bites Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 17:13:40 -0000 ----- Original Message ----- > > Message #13336 > Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 19:26:50 -0500 > From: Paul Wakfer <> > Subject: Re: CryoNet #13305 sound bites > References: <> > > > Message #13305 > > From: > > Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 21:18:02 EST > > Subject: sound bites (del) > > If you are buried, you are less likely to survive. > > Not necessarily. They may both be zero. To get a difference between survival after two events, you have to know the probability of survival of each. I think we all agree that the probability of survival after rotting is as near zero as you can hope to get. (but there are possibilities, e.g. religion, omega point, transfer of information through time by physics in a manner similar to time travel, and so on and so forth) Some people are saying that the probability of survival after cryopreservation by current methods is also as near zero as you can hope to get. (cryptography, backtracking misplaced atoms, inverse calculation of freezing process at atomic level, scanning and extracting information from remains etc) No one can say with absolute certainty that both are *exactly equal* to zero. Therefore we have two very small numbers that need subtracting in order to determine which is the best option. Subtracting two nearly equal measured or calculated quantities to get a result often results in a spurious conclusion. Maybe someone can put some figures in. Sincerely, John de Rivaz my homepage links to Longevity Report, Fractal Report, my singles club for people in Cornwall, music, Inventors' report, an autobio and various other projects: http://geocities.yahoo.com/longevityrpt Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=13340