X-Message-Number: 33332
From: "John de Rivaz" <>
Subject: expensive projects
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 11:08:31 -0000


Every so often people inside and outside of cryonics come up with grand schemes 
costing millions of dollars that they claim will revolutionise cryonics.


I wonder whether there has ever been anything this financially grand within 
cryonics that has advanced it and actually been paid for like this. 


I suspect that most advances have either been funded from fortuitous bequests, 
or the people proposing them have not asked for pay, but have just gone ahead 
and done it.


Many expensive things are not expensive because they represent wealth (eg buying
premises or some big machine) but are expensive because they require lots of 
people to do little things, but which when combined produces the recommended 
result. Computer networks are being designed to produce these results, such as


http://www.astronomywa.net.au/whats-happening/news/news-archive/64-space-exploration/101-take-a-trip-to-the-galaxy-zoo

where lots of volunteers each add tiny effort to create a large result. If 
people were paid to do this as full time work, then that project may well cost 
millions of dollars.


I am not suggesting that this astronomy project maps directly to any of the 
cryonics projects proposed, but I observe that shouting for money is not  
working now and suggest that it will not work in the future.

--
Sincerely, John de Rivaz:  http://John.deRivaz.com for websites including
Cryonics Europe, Longevity Report, The Venturists, Porthtowan, Alec Harley
Reeves - inventor, Arthur Bowker - potter, de Rivaz genealogy,  Nomad .. and
more

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