X-Message-Number: 14457
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 23:22:40 +0100
From: Corbally <>
Subject: Suspended Animation?

All,

Found this on the Beeb site;

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/in_depth/sci_tech/2000/festival_of_science/
newsid_920000/920778.stm

>Humans might one day be able to enter a state
>              of "suspended animation" by studying the
>              secrets of the echidna, one of the oldest
>              surviving mammals in the world. 
>

Sounds interesting, and Dr Rismiller says this;

>If we could naturally lower metabolism, then it
>              would be of great benefit for medical purposes
>              and secondly looking at space travel and
>              things like that. 
>

....although she mentions it in the context of surgery, not cryonics.

All the same, might prove useful.


James...


 
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