X-Message-Number: 21215 Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 11:40:42 -0600 Subject: Re: ESPN: Friend details gruesome visit to cryogenics lab From: Brian A Stewart <> I find it difficult to imagine that Ted Williams, or anyone else for that matter, would care whether or not he was suspended individually or with others. In fact, I think that other people in the containers would help stabilize the temperature (although, I suppose, such an effect would be minor). I have never seen the Alcor (nor C.I.) facilities, so I really can't comment on their condition. I suspect any shortcomings are a reflection of the lack of profitability of cryonics, rather than a lack of professionalism. I am kind of curious about the comment about the tables not being steel topped-- although, IIRC, the ones in operating theaters at the University Hospital here in Madison, WI aren't steel topped, either. I seem to recall that they have some sort of a synthetic topping, one which doesn't absorb body fluids and gets washed down after an operation. Aren't the dewars essentially steel canisters? How could the visitors determine the liquid nitrogen levels? What basis would they have to determine whether or not they were "dangerously low"? To be honest, I find the whole idea of death gruesome in and of itself, and so far cryonics seems to be the most promising method to recover from it! Brian Brian A. Stewart-- Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.A. "To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but morally treasonable to the American public." - Theodore Roosevelt ________________________________________________________________ Sign Up for Juno Platinum Internet Access Today Only $9.95 per month! Visit www.juno.com Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=21215