X-Message-Number: 1744 Date: Sun, 14 Feb 93 00:49:31 CST From: Brian Wowk <> Subject: CRYONICS Marketing Kevin Q. Brown: >> Finally, all this hype would be a lot more successful if we actually >> had a product to sell. We need all the good research we can get so >> that "The Prospect of Immortality" becomes the reality of revival >> to an unbounded future. Keith Henson: > As I have mentioned before, reviving a frozen mammal would be an > amazing marketing coup for cryonics. Unfortunately, the physics of > the process may be against us. I suspect (though I would be delighted > to be proved wrong) that there is nothing short of nanotechnology > which would revive a mammal frozen to LN2. Even if we could, it would > be of relatively little advantage to those we are freezing today > because they have so many other problems. Like the jump into space, > the bypass through nanotechnology may be the *shortcut*. I agree with Keith that reversible suspended animation of whole bodies probably cannot be done without nanotechnology. I believe, however, that Keith's reply is missing some important discussion. As I and others have said time and time again, the area toward which we must direct our efforts is the *brain*. In contrast to the whole body problem, reversible preservation of the brain appears to be a much easier problem to crack (no pun intended). With six or seven figure resources, we could probably sovle it in a few years. Such an achievement would raise a lot of eyebrows in the medical community, and I think would qualify as a "marketing coup." It would enhance our credibility enormously. --- Brian Wowk Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=1744