X-Message-Number: 6751
From:  (Thomas Donaldson)
Subject: Re: David Cosenza's message
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 1996 23:08:53 -0700 (PDT)

To David Cosenza:

Not all those who pledged to Prometheus did so because they hope that money
will result. I pledged because Prometheus looked like it would support 
research into brain vitrification, I have followed work on vitrification for
years, and thought for years that it would solve many of our problems. And
I have even criticised both here and in the Prometheus-forum the notion that
we have a chance of making lots of money from this effort.

We do not. What we do have a chance of doing is markedly improving our
prospects of surviving suspension. That alone is well worth the money spent on
it.

I do not claim that I am alone, either. I've just been more vocal than many.

And because I know very well that a substantial number of people on Cryonet
may not have much familiarity with GF's research on vitrification and its
prospects, I have offered to send them an article by Greg Fahy on the latest
state of his research, published in the open press. I did this because I
think that the worth of Prometheus simply cannot be evaluated on general 
philosophical terms, nor on commercial terms either. If you want to evaluate
it, you should have some familiarity with the technology and methods it
proposes to develop. 

And naturally, if you have no such familiarity it's going to seem an odd,
unmotivated song & dance going by in the distance. I assume that you do not
simply wish to sit by and watch that song & dance but wish to understand 
what's going on.

I am happy to send you, if you cannot get it for yourself, the article in
question --- though ideally I'd like to you to find it for yourself. The
article is:

Greg Fahy, "Organ Cryopreservation", in RM Klatz (ed) ADVANCES IN ANTIAGING
MEDICINE, VOL I, pp. 249-255.

What I send (if you need it) will be a photocopy of the article from a copy
of the book which I own. I will naturally expect reimbursement for my costs
in photocopying and sending it to you. 

			Long long life,

				Thomas Donaldson
				


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