X-Message-Number: 707 Date: 08 Apr 92 02:06:28 EDT From: Thomas Donaldson <> Subject: Re: cryonics: #699 This news makes me feel very mixed. I've been in the Riverside facility, which suffers very badly from crowding. That seems to me to be the one major reason to think about moving. If no one can work there without tripping over something (figuratively) the desire for a new facility will obviously grow stronger and stronger. But Arizona? As Michael says, we don't know even whether Alcor will be welcomed; and the idea of putting down MONEY for such a move, when Alcor is in its present financial state, makes me worry a lot. Furthermore although there ARE cryonicists in Arizona, right now there are a whole lot less of them than in Southern California. Wouldn't it perhaps be a good idea to try to stick with the members, rather than going far away from them? Sure, Arizona offers the possibility of suspending lots of cacti, but I didn't think that was what cryonics was about. Finally, as a side comment, as everyone knows Asimov has opposed immortalism at every opportunity. Not only that, but his books on science follow at all times the "establishment" line, and so lose a lot of interest to anyone who follows science developments independently. (A lot of the interest comes from wondering what we'll find just around the bend ...). But I digress. I will be phoning Alcor South tomorrow. Thomas Donaldson Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=707