X-Message-Number: 3465 Date: Sat, 10 Dec 1994 19:15:28 -0800 From: Tim Freeman <> Subject: SCI.CRYONICS Re:New data on Genes and Frozen Animals From: >ONE CAN INFER FROM THE METABOLIC RATE OF FROZEN FROGS THAT THESE ANIMALS >CAN LAST LONGER THAN TWO HUNDRED YEARS IN A FROZEN STATE. Non-sequitur. A piece of dead cow has a metabolic rate of zero, and it will be inedible after being frozen for a decade or less. Frogs frozen near 0 degrees C for a mere one hundred years would die from rotting, not from hunger, so the metabolic rate doesn't let you conclude anything about whether they would survive. Tim Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=3465