X-Message-Number: 25720
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 07:02:55 -0500
From: Thomas Donaldson <>
Subject: CryoNet #25715 - #25719

For David Verbecke:

I don't know how easy it is to access particular web sites, but
if you can get a program like the WEB OF SCIENCE (which used
to be called when it was available only in book form SCIENCE
CITATION INDEX) then the first thing I would do would be to 
get into the WEB OF SCIENCE and look for references to myocarditis.

I would be very surprised if no university library in Belgium
or even in your closest large city does not have access to 
the WEB OF SCIENCE. 

Depending on whether the university library you use has web
access to the periodicals such a literature search will find,
you should even be able to get copies of the cited papers.
At a minimum you can get Web of Science to send you the results
of your literature search by email.

The trouble with using Google to do this is that it's likely to
give you a lot of irrelevant stuff. The people who put out
Google are talking about producing a scientific version, which
would help a lot. There are also some other sites that offer
something like Google only restricted to scientific/medical
papers and material only. SCIRUS is one.

And incidentally, my wife and I, when we were much more devoted
to one another than now, had the head of our pet cat suspended
by Alcor. This was because we liked the cat, not because we
thought cats had any idea of death. I would be careful, though,
in what I say about how animals feel and what they know about
death. Elephants seem to be affected, and I wouldn't be surprised
at all if apes are also affected. And just to add to the
complexity of this issue, most technologically primitive
peoples WHO HAVE NOT HAD CONTACT WITH CIVILIZATION (now a very
rare and probably absent condition) believed that all deaths
were the result of someone's sorcery --- not a totally 
unreasonable belief, since for a long time nobody lived
past the age of 40 --- and those who did were thought to be
sorcerors.

For Stephen Ritger:

Doesn't rhyme very well. And I will offend almost everyone on
Cryonet by pointing out that 1. any attempt at repair of shattered
people (or shattered Humpty Dumpty) will require more knowledge than
we now have about how people (or Humpty Dumpties) are put together
when well and how they break, and 2. restoring even blood vessels,
not to mention nerve connections, requires work at a scale larger
than nanoscale. Any device or system to make such repairs may well
have lots of nanoscale parts, but will have to be much larger than
nanoscale itself to do the job needed.

Nanotechnology will certainly HELP, but alone comes nowhere near a
complete solution.

           Best wishes and long long life for all,

               Thomas Donaldson

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