X-Message-Number: 4490
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 1995 15:53:30 -0400 (EDT)
From: Charles Platt <>
Subject: Research

Ten days ago, Mike Darwin posted here the results of research evaluating 
the damage caused by perfusion/freezing protocol of the type used by 
BioPreservation and Alcor Foundation. This research was both exciting and 
practical. It showed that, although some freezing damage still occurs, 
under optimum conditions it is less severe than many of us feared, and 
there is real hope of repair and resuscitation in the future. 

This news has caused barely a ripple of interest here. Meanwhile, posts 
about uploading and other half-baked techno-fantasies continue as 
vigorously as ever.

As someone who has written science fiction, I am certainly interested in 
speculation--provided we see it for what it is. I see absolutely no point 
in pursuing speculation as if it has immediate practical value; and this 
means that I see very little point in CryoNet as it now functions. 

The unwillingness of cryonicists to fund serious research, or even think
about serious research, is to me the biggest and most irritating paradox
in this strange little backwater. 

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