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Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2009 00:42:44 +0100
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Subject: Re: #31316: Bart Kosko's 2009 Edge question essay

Quote: ... just over three decades later Kubrick opted for the old 
neural apocalypse when he could easily have afforded a first-class 
cryonic suspension in quite adequate facilities. End of quote.

What evidence can BART KOSKO offer? From my point of view, no 
sensational first-class cryonic suspension in an adequate facility has 
happened until now. Professional standby and vitrification make the 
difference in temporary suspension, but an adequate facility should 
represent the real first-class deal for longterm suspension as well. 
There will be a little explanation from a "marketing" point of view: CI 
and Alcor are a standard without a very attractive high-class, because 
there's no low-class for poor people either. Where's the low-class 
facility where poor people who have signed up for chemo suspension will 
receive storage of formaldehyde preserved brain sections? Nowhere! 
Therefore, there's no significant extreme of a low-class available which 
places vitrification at Alcor into the high-class section. Better raise 
Cryonics amongst a broad range of other products for longterm suspension 
before telling anyone about a high quality!

Actually, there are only CI and Alcor. Don't even think about putting 
Kriorus into the low quality category in connection with longterm 
storage. They use nearly the same dewars like their "competitors" and 
nothing of much lower quality. Want to make Cryonics cheaper? Alright,
lower its quality and higher its luxury!

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