X-Message-Number: 26785
Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 07:52:09 -0700 (PDT)
From: cryo neer <>
Subject: A cryoneer is a prospective cryonaut.

Andrew Clifford made some useful comments about
terminology yesterday.
http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/dsp.cgi?msg=26773

Dispite Andrews unwillingness to go along with
 cryoneer , I point out that the following definitions
that are true not by my edict but rather by the nature
of the English language itself. A  cryonaut  is one
who is currently  cryopreserved. He's the one DOING
the cryonic travel, thus the suffix  naut , from the
Latin or Greek meaning something close to  travel .
Andrew can't possible be a cryonaut while alive, by
definition, regardless of his unwillingness to accept
that. His example of the  astronaut  who doesn't
travel to space is weak since a grounded astronaut is
a  prospective astronaut , the  prospective  being
dropped merely for convenience. In this way, Andrew is
a  prospective cryonaut . If we were to push the
semantics, we would call  astronauts who don't go into
space   astroNOTs . In fact, this nomenclature is
already being used widely. Similarly, a person who
died without being preserved would be a  cryoNOT . 

The cryoneer, on the other hand, is the guy like you
or me who is alive and fully signed up and fully
funded. THAT is a specific assigned definition to be
sure but the  eer  suffix is a shortened version of
 er  to describe a person in action as Andrew himself
points out. The terms  mountainEER , and  canyonEER 
are in use widely to this effect, providing linquistic
precedents for  cryonEER . (Check Google hits yourself
and you'll see). A canyoneer is one who takes action
going through canyons. A mountaineer is one who takes
action climbing mountains. Similarly, a cryoneer is
one who takes action in cryonics-- that action, most
critically,  being to fully sign up and to be fully
funded. Without the full funding part, a cryonic
preservation cannot take place. The full funding is
the fulcrum around which everything else depends.
Thus, it's fitting to place full funding as the action
point that uniquely defines the cryoneer.

Cryoneer Counter
http://www.webspawner.com/users/cryoneer



		
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