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 Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=26322