X-Message-Number: 21215
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 11:40:42 -0600
Subject: Re: ESPN: Friend details gruesome visit to cryogenics lab
From: Brian A Stewart <>

I find it difficult to imagine that Ted Williams, or anyone else for that
matter, would care whether or not he was suspended individually or with
others.  In fact, I think that other people in the containers would help
stabilize the temperature (although, I suppose, such an effect would be
minor).

I have never seen the Alcor (nor C.I.) facilities, so I really can't
comment on their condition.  I suspect any shortcomings are a reflection
of the lack of profitability of cryonics, rather than a lack of
professionalism.  I am kind of curious about the comment about the tables
not being steel topped-- although, IIRC, the ones in operating theaters
at the University Hospital here in Madison, WI aren't steel topped,
either.  I seem to recall that they have some sort of a synthetic
topping, one which doesn't absorb body fluids and gets washed down after
an operation.

Aren't the dewars essentially steel canisters?  How could the visitors
determine the liquid nitrogen levels?  What basis would they have to
determine whether or not they were "dangerously low"?  

To be honest, I find the whole idea of death gruesome in and of itself,
and so far cryonics seems to be the most promising method to recover from
it!


Brian

Brian A. Stewart-- Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.A.
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we
are to stand by the President right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and
servile, but morally treasonable to the American public."
                            - Theodore Roosevelt

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