X-Message-Number: 26351 Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 02:01:56 -0400 From: Subject: $60 a Barrel Oil - So Far a Moot Issue Mark Plus keeps worrying about non-North America cryonicists being shut down from cryotransport from other countries, due to a fuel shortage disabling the airplanes. If we are to believe the President of CI, and I think there is good reason to, it doesn't matter. 24 to 48 hours delay on normal airline schedules is already too short anyway. Or are there adequate cryoperfusion facilities closer by some non-North American countries? Here is the article and a relevant excerpt: http://www.cryonics.org/immortalist/may05/news.htm "Currently our plan is for CI Members in the United States to be packed in water-ice and shipped to Michigan for vitrification solution perfusion. We could do the same for overseas patients if we were confident that we had an organ preservation blood substitute that could be perfused into the patient before shipment and would retain tissue viability for 48 hours. Dr. Pichugin has thus far failed in his efforts to find an organ preservation solution that is much better than control for 24 hours or that maintains *any* viability for 48 hours." Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=26351