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Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 02:01:56 -0400
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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."

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