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Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2000 01:10:29 EDT
Subject: Re: CryoNet #14394 - #14397

RE: 14397

There is a free website for Bablefish ( a translator) through Altavista.com 
(just click "translate".)  It's fascinating to see how well (and sometimes 
how poorly) computer translation works.  Below is the auto translation of the 
German article. I hope no one finds it offensive -- the poor machine does 
very poorly guessing between "he" and "it".  Sounds it often like "The Awful 
German Language"  Mark Twain that wrote....

Cheers,

Alan

and 37 other Kryonauten of their Auferstehung awaits By Gundolf S. Freyermuth 

Unusual always was FM-2030. With eleven the diplomat son had already lived in 
17 countries. With the 1948er-Olympiade began it as basketball player and a 
ringer. In the fifties he operated as viersprachiger mediators for the UN. In 
the sixties it became as an author of three, from which criticism admits - " 
The Day OF Sacrifice " of celebrated novels, " The Beggar " and " Identity 
Card ". And in the seventies finally it began its fourth and most successful 
career. At that time it modified its names: From F. M. Esfandiary FM-2030. 
became whereby FM both for Future one, Future Marvel and Future modular be 
should - future human being, future miracle and future component system - and 
2030 for the year, in which the " chronic optimist " tapers, by numerous 
spare parts, its 100. Birthday to celebrate meant. Success as FM-2030 
adjusted immediately: The visionaere philosopher became one the most 
well-known US Futuristen. In its special books, among them " AR You a 
transhuman? " and ", he foresaw Telespheres " in and the eighties seventies 
developments, which are today our everyday life - the fall of the family 
exactly the same as in-Vitro-generations and interventions in the hereditary 
property or Teleerziehung and Teleshopping. Its sixth sense for the future 
let it become the highly paid Consultant for High Tech companies and the in 
demand Kolumnisten. In a crucial point however the ingenious Futurist was 
mistaken: It should its 100. Birthday do not experience. It was located so 
anyhow in the ring-back signals, which appeared in the middle of July in all 
large US newspapers. FM-2030 certainly meant, when he got sick incurably with 
cancer, the premature parting will be only temporary. He hoped for a 
medically more highly developed future. Why the 69-Jaehrige could be put on 
ice - directly beside professor Epstein, who I before not too longer 
(It takes only 40 sentences at a time)
 directly beside professor Epstein, who I met before not too long time in the 
same situation. The thermometer showed 42 degrees on that summer day. In the 
shadow. But it did not give. Phoenix, which is town with millions of 
inhabitants in the desert of Arizona, from smooth concrete blocks and steeply 
burning sun made, and in the air park, only funkelnagelneue flat buildings 
were trade area to which and between them bald-sheared lawns, on which 
sprinkler surrten. In the headquarters of the non-profit Alcor donation it 
was clinically cold against it. Of distance vogue in ice air certainly a 
sweet smell of rotting, against which the air conditioning system fought in 
vain. That, if already not Stephen Bridges verdruecktes smile, should have 
warned me. " I would like ", said the Alcor boss, that he had hardly vibrated 
my hand, " that you professor Epstein to know learn. " " the professor is 
historian, an uncommonly interesting shape ", said he schwaermerisch, while 
he tutored me into the rear area of the building. There the operating room is 
accommodated, and there is also the high hall, in which Alcors " patients " 
rest. " already as a child professor Mussolini met. With eleven it fled 
before the Nazis to New York. Quite alone. And as a student it sold an 
insurance policy to Einstein! " Behind the door, which leads to the operating 
room, absorbed voices and metallic rattling were to be heard. The suessliche 
smell strengthened. " we are still with the cleaning ", avowed Stephen Bridge 
and stopped before a chest-high cooling crate. It was as long as a child 
coffin. Automatically I whispered. " you can talk calmly loud ", said Bridge, 
with the hand about the reddish Schnauzer driving, which stuck properly under 
its nose, " our patients disturb yourselves that not. " Then it folded so 
casual-significantly, as if draw it a rabbit up from the cylinder, the crate, 
and there, on stocks from steaming dry ice, professor Epstein was situated - 
naked and curved like an embryo and s  

 so waechsern and tiny, as death makes us all. Its body in the transparent 
plastic bag was not the first dead one, which I saw. But it was first, which 
one had pumped full anti-freezes and like a bottle Wodka on ice had put. The 
corpse smell was betaeubend. " the professor came the day before yesterday 
from the east coast ", chatted to Stephen Bridge ungeruehrt. " we fetched, 
naturally it from the airport with the outpatient clinic. " This hurry, with 
which Bridge and its troop proceeded, may appear exaggerated to some, because 
the 66-jaehrige historical professor had been finally explained many hours 
before of New Yorker physician for dead. But in the eyes of the people of 
Alcor was and is entseelt Anatol Epstein by no means irrevocablly. For it it 
lives only in limbo - temporarily deanimiert. Untot. " we must only ensure 
that our bodies are stored after our death in appropriate cooling resting, 
until a time came, in which the science us help can ", are called it in the 
cold treatment cult book " The Prospect OF Immortality ": " which always 
kills us today, is it the age or an illness, and even if the freezing 
techniques should be still very primitive at present our death, sooner or 
later our friends become in the future of the function to have grown to 
animate and heal us again. " With these sets by program of the American 
physics professor and Science Fiction fan Robert T. W. Ettinger 1964 began a 
movement, whose trailer calls itself after " kryos ", the Greek word for 
cold, Kryoniker. First humans, who made professor Ettingers with idea Ernst, 
were a California physician Dr. James Bedford. On 12 January 1967 it died at 
cancer. Its family buried it not, but followed its desire and " suspended " 
it. Suspension is called temporary removal " according to Duden ". Their 
kryonische version takes place, after previous cooling of the patient, in a 
bath from liquid nitrogen. The white container, in Dr. Bedfor 

today in Alcors lobby drove, is the first two decades of its suspension. It 
is not dissimilar to a propane gas tank. " we arrange the patients now 
standing on the heading ", say Stephen Bridge. " case a leakage to occur 
should, would be first the feet without cooling. And on those we can omit 
rather as on our heading. " Until the kryonischen amateur handicraftsmen came 
to such insights, required it however some research and the development of a 
halfway professional infrastructure. Their foundation set Fred Chamberlain, a 
space travel engineer, when it in the middle of the sixties Ettingers book 
into the hands fell. " its ideas appeared to me so reasonably that I was 
safe, possibly someone already soon the necessary techniques will develop ", 
say Chamberlain. " I was too busy to care for me drum. " Engineer helped, " 
marine ones " - and " Voyager" space probes to build. When however 1970 its 
nut/mother died and also its father was ailing, it dawned him that the time 
pushed and advanced nobody kryonische practice. 1972 created Fred Chamberlain 
therefore also a few Gleichgesinnten in the California Riverside the donation 
Alcor. Fred Chamberlain sketched geraetschaften for the freezing of 
kryonautischer patients, as they - technically improved - are still used. 
1976 came it then to Alcors of first suspension, in which Chamberlain 
participated also personally: " it was my father, he wanted not to die, 
nobody wants to die. I was guilty to it that. " A quarter century offers 
later a half dozen to organizations suspensions. Market leader is further 
Alcor, which moved to 1994 from Riverside in the earthquake-proof Phoenix. 
The donation counts approximately 600 members, 39 suspended of it. By the 
majority the Kryoniker comes of to the technical intelligence of the American 
west. Centers of the freezing friends form also Australia and Great Britain, 
where Alcor maintains a Dependance. Central Europe however remains to 
kryonischer underdevelopment completely in the stage. In interpret   
In the German-speaking countries so far no hand was fully pioneers, who would 
be ready to go into the eternal ice. Would be comparatively cheap the life 
without purge date to have. In order to cover the costs, die-indignant must 
conclude only a life insurance to favour of the donation - over 50,000 to 
145,000 dollar, dependent on the selected procedure and on the height of the 
foreign addition. Then one puts a will, which surrenders Alcor the own body 
as complete body donation. " under kryonischen criteria optimally ", Stephen 
Bridge means, " would be a slow cancer. " With that the patient could drag 
itself still to Phoenix. If preliminary warning exists, Alcor sends also a 
NOT team, which provides locally for temporary preparation. With their the 
blood of the patient is replaced by Viaspan, a solution, which is used 
otherwise for the preservation of parts of the body for transplant ions. 
Usual organ donations such as hearts and kidneys keep themselves fresh in 
their 18 to 24 hours. Who dies however too early and far from Alcors High 
Tech OI, geht's like professor Epstein: As soon as - alleged - dying is 
official, he or she is put on normal dry ice and shipped as soon as possible 
by airplane after Phoenix. Here its takes care of the suspension team around 
Fred Chamberlains Mrs. Linda. A physician, it can be also times a 
veterinarian, opens the thorax, creates a heart bypass and cuts the 
connections to the lung. A more effective blutkreislauf is established so 
directly of heart to the brain, and antifreeze on Glycerol base troepfelt 
into the veins. The perfusion resembles a burr migration. On the one hand a 
high saturation of the brain with the means is desirable, in order to keep 
small when freezing fabric damage. On the other hand the danger of a 
poisoning of the cells exists. By a looking hole, which the surgeon bores 
into the head, the team observes the dewatering, to between head cover and 
brain a gap of two, three Zent 

Perfusion resembles a burr migration. On the one hand a high saturation of 
the brain with the means is desirable, in order to keep small when freezing 
fabric damage. On the other hand the danger of a poisoning of the cells 
exists. By a looking hole, which the surgeon bores into the head, the team 
observes the dewatering, to between head cover and brain a gap of two, three 
centimeters gapes. If the patient decided to the complete body version, then 
one sews him now the chest again too. Its body is wound into a plastic 
tarpaulin and plugged into the dry ice box, in which I found professor 
Epstein. The cooling on minus 97 degrees takes two days. Afterwards the 
patient comes with minus 196 degrees into a nitrogen bath. Kryoniker denial 
even most convinced however not the enormous freezing damage, which develops 
with the present procedure. Many want to keep therefore the quantity of in 
need of repair humanity small. Contrary to professor Epstein FM-2030 saved 
for instance the storage of the ill body. It concerned to it like most alone 
the preservation of the brain; the new body to the old heading is to be 
after-cloned that once or completely again designed. In such - cheaper - 
cases of " Neuropraeservation " the team at the end of the perfusion 
separates the head between the fifth and sixth back eddy and packs it into a 
type Spaghettitopf, while the remainder body becomes as special refuse 
entsorgt. Derek Ryan, roundish final twenties, sawed off so once the heading 
of an acquaintance, with whose friend he lived together later. If the 
predecessor returns to the life, Derek says, it with it about it will speak: 
" I would like to tell it, how strangely affectionately it felt. I came it by 
it much more near. " The scene could play well in a Hollywoodfilm over horror 
relations crates, and anywhere Kryonik is not also more popular than in the 
popular culture. Frozen all places: of the Science Fiction classical author " 
2001 - odyssey in space " and unz   

2001 - Odyssey in space " and innumerable " star Trek" consequences over 
best-sellers like " Chiller ", " host " to Myers Comedy hit " Austin Powers 
". Fewer amused the school medicine reacts. It regards the concept of the 
kryonischen time machine as Scharlatanerie, a futuristic version of cash 
geldschneiderei. The Alcorianer sets several arguments to these reproaches 
against. Not the smallest reads: Alcor may not make a gain as donation, and 
the salaries of the established ones are closely because of the poverty 
boundary. The reproach of the Scharlatanerie would remain. To the 
preservation method it does not refer expressly. Because that the people mass 
actually against-floats with minus 196 degrees Celsius the far future without 
further cell expiry, is official state of research of cryobiology and 
Kryogenik. And those apply, in contrast to the disputed Kryonik, as accurate 
sciences. Their recent progress sounds besides hardly fewer fantastisch than 
the kryonische utopia. Thus skin and eye cornea/callosity are frozen by 
routine. And long live humans among us, who were already times frozen - as 
embryos. Despite intensive efforts did not succeed however so far to cool 
complete organs so deeply that they would be functional after thawing out. " 
the faith, Kryonik can animate someone again, which was frozen ", determined 
therefore Arthur C Rowe, once director of the kryobiologischen institute for 
red cross in New York, " is as quite the same as the idea to make from a 
Hamburg one again a cow. " ", many people try, at our expense to be amusing 
", say Stephen Bridge, when we are located in the hall with the patient 
Dewars, to scarcely three meters high isolating containers, which resemble 
high-grade steel thermos bottles on wheels. " for us however the suspended 
ones are not faceless dead ones. Those are our fathers and mothers, daughters 
and sons. " Into the coolingshining Stickstoffsarkophagen the 
completebody-suspended float and also a few their domestic animals. The 
Spaghettitoepfe with 

The Spaghettitoepfe with the heads of the Neuropraeservierten rests in 
smaller chests. Hope on all not too far revival wakes the nano-technology, 
the cell repair atom for atom with the Kryonikern apart from the progress of 
the genetic engineering in particular promises. FM-2030 foresaw also the day 
of its reon purchasing as post office-biological organism. one means the 
today's Spoetter with Alcor, at the end exactly the same few right is kept 
like their kleinmuetigen colleagues, who before 100 years still airplanes for 
physically not possibly explained. " to die is nothing natural. Older exactly 
the same an illness is such as cancer ", says final sixties franc 
Chamberlain. " to these diseases, need we are welfarable the Kryonik - to 
transport around us into a better future. " And Stephen Bridge asks gently: " 
slowly does time that you meet the necessary arrangements for your surviving, 
become not true? " " in cases of, Neuropraeservation ' separates the team the 
head between the fifth and sixth back eddy and packs it into a type 
Spaghettitopf, during the remainder bodies as special refuse entsorgt 
becomes. "

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