X-Message-Number: 17851 From: Subject: Prize Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2001 18:56:28 +0000 Hi everyone, I am considering setting up a prize of $1 million to the group or individual that achieves the first reversible cyropreservation. I would like comments from the cryonics community on the following: 1. Has this been done already? 2. I would like to see it done on a human which would result in more publicity, but to start, perhaps that would be setting the bar too high. Reversible cryopreservation on a dog would be a good demonstration. 3. What criteria would be a good idea? How cold and how long? I think goal should be to show that cryonics works, and not necessarily to acheive Perhaps the dog could be trained to do 5 tricks (play dead, roll-over etc.) and would have to remember them to win the prize. While I personally will not be able to fund a $1 million prize for many years, I might want to set up the fund and open it up for contributions earlier. What do you think? Robert Moore Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=17851