X-Message-Number: 13340
From: "John de Rivaz" <>
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Subject: sound bites
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 17:13:40 -0000

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> Message #13336
> Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 19:26:50 -0500
> From: Paul Wakfer <>
> Subject: Re: CryoNet #13305 sound bites
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> > Message #13305
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> > Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 21:18:02 EST
> > Subject: sound bites
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> > 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

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