X-Message-Number: 5696 Date: 02 Feb 96 07:32:26 EST From: DOLINOFF <> Subject: Cryonics and S.F. In the message #5690, Keith F. LYNCH writes : > Are there any cryonicists who *aren't* SF readers ? < At least, a second. I find nothing common between Mr Robert ETTINGER's Movement and SF, the latter beeing for me only a poor amusement making you only to waste your time. But it is also true that I find questionable the credibility in the success of the cryogenic suspensions made till now whithout a multiple cannulation nor by the reanimation team itself in the hospital, on the very table on which the patient just ceased to breathe. In demonstrating that the (very little) heart of a rat can beat again after having been immersed in LN2 for 5 minutes, the PRETORIA team has shown that a little biological organ can survive freezing. But it remains that it will be necessary to find for each human organ and tissue the appropriate program of decreasing in temperature and increasing of the cryoprotectant concentration. And it remains questionable if a technique allowing all the cells of so heavy an organ that the human liver to follow the necessary program will ever exist. Good luck and long life ! Anatole Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=5696