X-Message-Number: 24172
Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 10:23:30 -0400
From: Thomas Donaldson <>
Subject: CryoNet #24160 - #24164

For Mike Price!

Good message --- no matter what the Cryonet evaluation system says
(I have problems with that CES, but that's a whole different question).
Glad you saw fit to post it --- even though the drugs you discuss fail
my primary test for an antiaging drug (in A GUIDE TO ANTIAGING DRUGS).
Some of them I plan to put in my Appendix 2, "Drugs Waiting in the
Wings", for an Update I am (too slowly) getting together. Acetyl
carnitine is already discussed ther, so I can hardly add it. As for
the "modern" work with similar genes, etc, it gives us a reason to
do a lifespan test with healthy mice or rats, but still remains
weaker than such a test. Ideally, of course, we want a test on
human beings, but we'll all have died of aging if we sit around
waiting for such a test.

And yes, those who want to discuss how our brain works and differs
or does not differ from computers (present, hoped for, future, 
speculated about computers), I'm back after my absence producing the
next (now the present) issue of PERIASTRON. I hope that those of you
who subscribe will find it interesting. The main article comes from
papers of G Fahy and B Wowk, and discusses (guess what?) vitrification.
And I have an editorial which gives my opinion about vitrification,
which may offend lots of cryonicists or maybe not.

                 Best wishes and long long life to all,

                       Thomas Donaldson

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