X-Message-Number: 4726 Date: Sun, 6 Aug 1995 11:22:46 -0400 (EDT) From: Charles Platt <> Subject: Brain warming To Ralph Merkle: It's good news, Ralph, that my brain can be warmed so quickly merely by allowing hydrogen to react with fluorine (under, er, controlled conditions of course). I lack any chemical reference guides, but I vaguely remember that the product of this reaction, in the presence of water, produces hydrofluoric acid, which my old chem teacher used to use for cleaning especially dirty laboratory glassware, since it would dissolve just about anything. I assume you are planning to contain this somehow; in which case I have to ask, what are you going to contain it *in*? And how are you going to get it *out*? I imagine some sort of wake-up call to the little pellets that have done their heating job: "All right, all of you, head right on down to the jugular vein as quick as you can, there's a syringe waiting there to take you to your next destination." But--how do they FIND the jugular vein? And what happens if a couple dozen of the billions of these little critters somehow miss the instruction and get left behind? I always enjoy your ingenuity, Ralph, but it seems that in this case, in solving one problem, you have created a few others; and before anyone injects a hydrogen-fluorine cocktail into MY brain, I hope they take the trouble to make a copy of it first (the brain, I mean). ############################################################## Charles Platt / 1133 Broadway, room 1214 / New York / NY 10010 Phone 212 929 3983 email fax 212 807 6111 Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=4726