X-Message-Number: 1991
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 93 13:10:35 CST
From: Brian Wowk <>
Subject: CRYONICS Safety


Mark Kaminsky:
 
> Cheaper and better - quite likely, but it's not clear that it's safer.
> What happens if there is a breach in the wall of the room?  Earthquakes
> can occur just about anywhere as can a run-away LN2 truck.  Having to
> repair the wall or somehow transfer dozens of patients somewhere
> (where? I don't know) is not my idea of a pleasant Sunday afternoon.
 
        How do you breach foam walls 2 meters thick?  Even if you did 
(with a rocket launcher perhaps) you just fill the breach with foam 
blocks and fiber glass pink.  Any breach of any shape (even a crack 
transecting the entire room) can also be permanently repaired by blowing 
in form-fitting urea formaldehyde (or equivalent) foam insulation.
 
                                                --- Brian Wowk
 
P.S. If your patient care vault is accessible to "run-away" trucks, you 
are going to get serious damage no matter what storage modality you use.  
In fact, you will get *more* damage by knocking over LN2 and patient-
filled dewars like dominos.

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