X-Message-Number: 13831 Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2000 10:22:56 -0400 From: Thomas Donaldson <> Subject: re: vitrification + bacterial computers Hi everyone! Some comments: 1. It's very good that Alcor is thinking seriously about using vitrificati 1. It's very good that Alcor is thinking seriously about using vitrific- ation even before it's been proven to work. Independently I decided to write an editorial on just that subject for the upcoming PERIASTRON. However I personally would prefer that the price of such suspensions be worked out before it is given as simple the price of a whole body suspension. It may be more, it may be less, but identifying it with that of a whole body seems to me rather unthinking. Moreover, if we really want to talk about price, the whole slew of possibilities by which Alcor originally worked out its prices should be gone through again. 2. To Kennita Watson: I too do not subscribe to the New York Times in any form at all. However if you write me I can give you some other sources, and I also have been discussing this possibility in PERIASTRON. The 1 January 2000 issue of PERIASTRON discusses DNA computers based on an article in NATURE. If your closest University does not subscribe to NATURE, it does not deserve to call itself a university. I will add that some good public libraries subscribe to NATURE also; and if you're willing to send $3.00 I can send you a copy of the issue of PERIASTRON which does this. Yes, I know that bacteria are not the same as DNA. But the basic principle has got to be the same. And computers working this way may even show up all over; they have advantages which other forms of parallel computer lack (individual processors are far smaller). Best and long long life to all, Thomas Donaldson Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=13831