X-Message-Number: 6672
Date: Sat, 3 Aug 1996 17:02:56 -0700
From:  (Carol Shaw)
Subject: Alcor North CA Meeting Sunday Aug. 11 - Prometheus Project

The next Alcor Northern California cryonics meeting will be held on Sunday,
August 11. Our guest speaker will be Paul Wakfer, who will talk about the
Prometheus Project at 4:00 PM followed by a potluck supper and socializing.
For those who have received the new Alcor wallet card, but haven't signed
it yet, bring your card with you to have your signature witnessed.

Paul Wakfer's summary of the Prometheus Project:

The Prometheus Project is an exciting new idea to raise $1,000,000 per
year for 10 years for the purpose of doing the scientific research necessary
to convincingly demonstrate and publish in peer reviewed journals fully
reversible brain cryopreservation. The full reversibility is to include the
recovery of as much memory and other mental capacities as would be expected
from a currently elective, similarly traumatic, medical operation. The money
is being raised in the form of pledges which are to be turned into legally
binding share purchase agreements with a for-profit corporation which will be
formed to execute the project when $1M per year of pledgers have approved the
scientific and business plans which will be formulated during the next year.
Not a cent of pledge money is *due* before that time. After only 6 weeks of
effort on the Internet, over $210,000 per year for all 10 years has been
pledged by more that 40 participants.


Meeting Date:          Sunday, August 11, 1996

Time:                  4:00 PM

Location:              Ralph Merkle and Carol Shaw's home
                       1134 Pimento Ave.
                       Sunnyvale, CA  94087  USA

Ralph & Carol's Phone: 408-730-5224

Bring:                 Food and/or drink if staying for the potluck

Directions:            Take Highway 85 between Highways 280 and 101. (Note:
to get to 85 when going north on 101 from San Jose, take 237 to the
southwest). Exit from Highway 85 going east on Fremont Ave. Go a couple of
blocks and turn left (north) on Mary at the traffic light. Take the first
right on Ticonderoga. Take the first left on Pimento. 1134 Pimento is the
yellow house on the right near the end of the street.


Alcor Northern California is an informal group of local cryonicists.
Meetings are held on the second Sunday of each month at various locations
in the San Francisco Bay Area. Anyone interested in cryonics is welcome to
attend. For future meeting announcements and links to more information on
cryonics see:

http://www.carol.com/alcornorth.shtml

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Carol Shaw
E-mail:     
Web:        http://www.portal.com/~carols


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