X-Message-Number: 5393 From: (George Watson) Newsgroups: sci.cryonics Subject: Radiation preservation Date: Sun, 10 Dec 1995 12:33:35 GMT Message-ID: <4ae9il$> I am curious about what aspects of radiation preservation could be used to store a body or a head (brain ) for reanimation. Could you seal someone in say a block of plexiglass and then irradiate them to prevent parasitic decay? Obviously you would not stop chemical decomposition but perhaps the lack of parasitic structural decay would be enough to retain the physical structure of the brain and THAT would be enough to match the neuron circuits and allow reconstruction. Is enough of the personality stored in the physical structure of nueron circuits such that preservation of electrical and chemical potentials is not needed for reconstruction? Obviously DNA damage would be too much to allow anything other than using the body as a physical model from which to form another. No reanimation of the irradiated body would be directly possible without huge advances in DNA repair. Any thoughts welcome. -- George Watson The opinions expressed here are those of the fingers of George Watson only; not those of George Watson himself. Please reply via this newsgroup. No Email unless requested, Thanks. Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=5393