X-Message-Number: 26322
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 08:27:29 -0400
From: Thomas Donaldson <>
Subject: CryoNet #26311 - #26316

For Basie, the Umpteenth time:

The critical issue about cross-linking as a form of preservation is
that of just what gets cross-linked. I will note that normally
cross-linking, which accompanies aging, doesn't cross-link the proper
chemicals to be of any help at all in preservation. It's not clear
at all that cryonicists can use cross-linking as part of our system
to preserve ourselves.

To Jerry Lemler:

You are right to be glad that Ettinger could spread the idea of cryonics
so widely. At least one other person seems to have failed at this
and been forgotten (Evan Cooper), though he too wrote a book on it.
Cooper never got frozen; instead he sailed away and seems to have been
lost at sea (deliberately? I don't know). Others have had the idea 
but never wrote about it. To push almost any heretical idea (and by
now I think most cryonicists know just how heretical cryonics really
is) you need the idea, the right person, and the right circumstances
all combined. A law of nature but an unfortunate one. And Ettinger
still deserves congratulations, because he was the right person and
had the idea. 

                Best wishes and long long life to all,

                     Thomas Donaldson

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