X-Message-Number: 3385 Date: Wed, 2 Nov 1994 09:12:22 -0500 From: Ken Stone <> Subject: SCI.CRYONICS High Pressure Cryonics In reply to Ben Best: Firstly, this is the first posting that I've made to SCI.CRYONICS (my last post went only to CRYONICS digest). I don't mind expanding the forum, but I don't read the newsgroup, and I'm guessing that you left a few people wondering what/who you were referring to. Now, to your points: *I* didn't take it as self-evident that anybody would get smushed. I don't know if a high-gradient pressure change of the kind you advocate would be very damaging or not. I don't have the physics background to be able to decide the outcome of such an experiment a priori, and while you may have made an argument that it will work, that doesn't mean that I have to believe it, or refute it, or anything else. I leave that to others who are more qualified (or at least think they are :-) ). My point was that I believe that high-pressure cryonics should still be explored REGARDLESS of the feasibility of your approach. I believe this primarily because ice crystal structures are *different* under high pressure, not because of any differences in the temperatures at which crystals are formed. It may even turn out that conventional cryoprotectants aren't even necessary under the right conditions... ---Ken =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ken Stone - "Listen to what I say, not what I mean." =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=3385