X-Message-Number: 8474
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 08:21:56 +0100
From:  (Thomas D. Shapard)
Subject: Re: CryoNet #8471 - #8473

>Message #8471
>From: Anders Sandberg <>
>Newsgroups: sci.cryonics
>Subject: Re: An analogy
>Date: 18 Aug 1997 18:49:00 +0200
>Message-ID: <>
>References: <> <>
>
>Bob Whitaker <>:
>>John de Rivaz wrote:
>>>

>>>I would add to this that leaving it to the last minute is analagous to hoping

>>>that life extension technology may make the use of cryonics redundant, ie the
>>>subject lives until an age where life can be extended a bit, and then during
>>>this "bit" it can be extended further and so on.
>>
>>   This is very important, and we need a term for it.
>
>What about the "Breakeven point" or "Life expectancy breakeven",
>in analogy to the fusion term for the point where energy added
>equals energy gained from fusion.
>

 I call it "Catching the Wave".  Maybe becasue I'm from CA and too surf
influence, but it seems apt to me.  It means living long enough so that the
wave of medical technology comes up behind you, extending your life still
more, carring a bit farther into the future, where still improved
technology takes you all the way in to indefinite lifespan.

Tom Shapard <>

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