X-Message-Number: 6894
From:  (Randy Smith)
Subject: Re: research, PPP
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 12:05:25 GMT

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>Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 17:06:07 -0400
>Subject: SCI. CRYONICS research, PPP

>Now, attention please all Prometheus Project (PP) pledgers:

>Your pledges to PP will not require cash until 1998. Probably most
>of you could begin those annual payments now, if PP were ready to
>go. For most of you, the motive is mainly to improve the chances of
>survival for yourselves and your families. So why not consider
>making a donation equal to your annual pledge NOW for a project
>that is READY to go with very promising NEW technology? (You might
>think of it as the Prometheus Precursor Project, PPP.) Maybe give
>half to IS and half to Alcor. That will HELP PP, since PP will then
>be ready to launch, in 1998, from a much higher base of
>information.

On the face of it, this sounds like a splendid idea, Bob. I've pledged
to Prometheus because I want the best freeezing protocol possible.

The only problem is, Bob,  that I might want to sign up with Cryocare
or ACS and in a previous post you mentioned that  Alcor & CI would
want to sell rights to use this protocol to other cryo orgs. 

Now, what if I donate to this research and it turns out to be the
perfect freezing protocol and that I've also signed up with Cryocare. 

Now, in that case, based on what I've read in the past on
sci.cryonics, Cryonet and the archives of same, it wouldn't surprise
me one bit if  Alcor/CI decided to either not sell the rights to
Cryocare or decided to make the price rather steep for that company
(or all other companies).

What I'm talking about, Bob, is the  seemingly substantial personal
animus felt toward  Cryocare by the board members of Alcor, and, quite
possibly, by you as well.

Quite simply, what I'm talking about is a lack of trust.

Randy Smith


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