X-Message-Number: 1947
Newsgroups: sci.cryonics
From:  (Gregory Bloom)
Subject: Radiation
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Date: Fri, 12 Mar 93 03:43:46 GMT

Is there likely to be much accumulated molecular damage from radiation?
I living tissue, enzymes continuously repair thimine dimers which can
be formed by gamma radation.  Is the accumulated damage from a couple
centuries of cosmic-ray exposure likely to be a significant problem?
If so, do the cryonics organizations take any precautions such as
moving their patients underground for better shielding?

Gregory Bloom


[ Should Ralph Merkle's Nov. 30, 1991 message #558 be reposted to
  sci.cryonics to reply to this? - KQB ]

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