X-Message-Number: 7760
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 22:11:03 -0800
From: Paul Wakfer <>
Subject: Prometheus Project News

More Pledges

     Two more pledges have been received which put the pledge total
over the $360K mark to $360,400 per year. The first was received from
Ralph Merkle who I had been encouraging both to join several other
nanotechnologist pledgers and to place his prestigious name among the
list of Project supporters. Ralph wrote:

>Provided "a certain cryobiologist" is involved in some central way,
>I'll pledge $1,000/year for 10 years.

     The second pledge was made by Jay Prime Positive, who wrote:

>Ok, your "if, if, if,... " language on the web site, and your
>SHOUTING of
>
>IT IS NOT SCIENTIFICALLY PROVEN, AND THEREFORE MAY BE FALSE, THAT
>ANYONE CURRENTLY BEING CRYOPRESERVED *CAN EVER* BE RESTORED WITH
>THEIR MEMORY, IDENTITY, AND FULL MENTAL ATTRIBUTES INTACT.
>
>have convinced me that I should pledge support.  My resources are 
>currently limited so I can not offer more than $500 per year.  This
>is equivalent to 5% of my annual income, a rate which I will keep up
>as my income increases.

Jay Prime does:     Freelance programming, design, and instruction in
                    C/C++, Java, HTML for Dos and Windows(3.x, 95)

with address:       email: , 
                    voice mail: 1 206 858 3406, 1 310 535 3308

I urge everyone to give Jay Prime some more business (so that his pledge
can be increased, why else? :-). Unless he can increase his pledge to
$1000 soon, we will need to find someone to match the pledge and join
him to make the $1000 per year minimum. I am confident that one or both
of these will happen. That's why I'm adding his pledge to the total
already.

21CM and Prometheus

     Obviously, the great news from 21CM gives the Prometheus
Project's goals a large boost and a chance to be accomplished even
sooner than originally planned. However, as Brian Wowk has now made
clear, whole-body human vitrification is still a long way from
demonstrably reversible brain cryopreservation, let alone perfected
suspended animation. Much more research needs to be done, and much
more money needs to be pledged, raised and spent on that research.
Discussions are currently underway concerning how 21CM and the
Prometheus Project can work together on this Project and the results
of these discussions will be announced as soon as possible. In the
meantime, let's keep those pledges coming in. The chances of the
Prometheus Project's successful accomplishment never looked brighter.


-- Paul --

Paul Wakfer
email: phone:909-481-9620 pager:800-805-2870

HELP TO ACHIEVE - PERFECTED SUSPENDED ANIMATION WITHIN 20 YEARS!

Check out the Prometheus Project web site at URL:
http://www.prometheus-project.org/prometheus/


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