X-Message-Number: 27261
Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 09:31:00 -0400
From: Thomas Donaldson <>
Subject: I hope this makes my problem clear

Hi to everyone, once more:

Perhaps I didn't make my message as clear as it should have been, so
here I go again:

The main problem with cryonics storage facilities far away from 
cities is NOT any problem with the site or the physical facilities
at such a site. The main problem comes from the simple facts that

1. Nobody wants to live far away from anyone else indefinitely

2. Any cryonics storage site requires that there be people watching
   there for 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

It may even be that some people will happily take up 1), though
so far as I know no one has shown serious interest in doing so
AND has been a cryonicist. If any of the 3 people so far proposing
this scheme in one or another form would also be happy to manage
such a site themselves, that would be good (and surprise me too).

Why does a cryonics storage site need someone there constantly?
Think of nuclear reactors, intercontinental missile sites, and
any other setting in which if something went wrong and wasn't
immediately fixed, we'd have a VERY large problem. I will point
out that in such sites, a lot of thought has gone into the problem
of fixing it up so nothing can go wrong --- but someone is there
because of the possibility that something was forgotten or simply
not imagined when all the protections were put there. And if anything
a cryonics storage site needs a level of protection similar to
that of a nuclear reactor. 

That's why nobody is really interested in places far away from
everyone.

           Best wishes and long long life for all,

                Thomas Donaldson

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