X-Message-Number: 1340
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 12:07:10 MST
From: "Richard Schroeppel" <>
Subject: CRYONICS Question:  How much ultrastructural damage?

I have a query for the technical people:  How much ultrastructural
damage occurs during suspension?  Mike Darwin suggests that, with
current techniques, all that's left is a jumble of cell bits.
(If true, this lends uncomfortable support to the hamburger criticism.)
If things are that bad, then a nano-technology jigsaw solver would seem
to be the only hope.  On the other hand, if the damage is "merely"
most neurons severed in a few places, but most synapses intact, then
a non-nanotechnology solution seems possible.

What's the story?  How bad are things?  Steve Harris?  Art Quaife?

Rich Schroeppel  

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