X-Message-Number: 8452
From:  (Thomas Donaldson)
Subject: Re: CryoNet #8448 - #8449
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 15:11:45 -0700 (PDT)

Hi again!

To Kevin Spoering: the original cryoprotectants were found by testing 
animals that already resisted cold. Glycerol, in particular. However their
effect is much more complex than simply giving a nonresistant animal the
drug; moreover, for long term preservation (not just a season, but for
hundreds of years) we'll need much lower temperature, no matter what we
do (short of storing ourselves in a computer). No natural treatment for 
multicelled animals such as mammals allows them to survive such temperatures.

			Long long life,

				Thomas Donaldson

PS: If you're seriously interested in it you might check out cryoprotection
and cryonics on the net.

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