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 ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=26785