X-Message-Number: 19207
From: "John de Rivaz" <>
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Subject: Re: Information about Cases
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 12:06:14 +0100

> Message #19195
> Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2002 05:40:09 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Charles Platt <>
> Subject: Information about Cases
>
>
> Personally I believe that as much information as possible should be
> collected and published. <del>
> There is an obvious comparison, here, between the US and Soviet space
> programs in the 1960s. The US program was fully revealed, including all
> errors and disasters. The Soviets only announced their successes. History
> suggests that the US did not suffer from its policy in the long term.

I wonder how good an analaogy this is.

Most people can understand the very broad concepts of rockets, wheras
medicine is a great deal more complicated. The sociology of the desired
"quick response" is also complicated and usually most reports would not give
enough of the details for the casual reader to have a true understand of
each situation.

Also with space flights they have a beginning, middle and ending and success
or failure is clear. With cryonics, there are the oft discussed
imponderables the truth of which will not be known for decades or more
likely centuries before revivals are attempted, if indeed they ever are.

If the sole purpose of NASA's Voyager was to take a plaque into space to be
found by aliens, then this may be comparable to cryonics. There are
similarities

1. are there any intelligent aliens there to observe it.
2. would they in fact ever find it and reply
3. it can't possibly happen for a very long time

compare to

1. is the concept of preserving people at the point of death for reanimation
practical at all?
2. are any of the cryonics processes being used or have been used
appropriate?
3. reanimation can't possibly happen for a very long time.

But space missions require the return of data after a known finite time,
usually a few years or a decade at the most. The plaque but of Voyager was
just an add-on.

--
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