X-Message-Number: 659 Subject: CRYONICS - American Cryonics News 1/2 From: (Edgar W. Swank) Date: Wed, 26 Feb 92 14:15:19 PST AMERICAN CRYONICS NEWS (Reprinted from The Immortalist, February, 1992) - Part 1/2 {photos of building} A group of cryonics investors recently signed a purchase agreement on this building in Sunnyvale. This structure may become our future offices, suspension and long)term storage facility. ALAVIE Signs Purchase Agreement An investment group, known as ALAVIE, headed by ACS Governor Carmen Brewer recently signed a purchase agreement on the building shown above. It is the hope of Carmen and other members of the group that the building will become a cryonics facility, business, meeting, and research center. The building will also become the new home of the American Cryonics Society. The 37,700 square foot office/R&D building is located on a 2.2 acre lot in an industrial park in Sunnyvale, California near Ames Research Center. We have been told that present zoning allows another 10,000 square feet of space or separate building to be build on this lot. The three story building has about 9,000 square feet of preferred office space with a glassed-in facade, 19,000 square feet of floor space suitable for Research and Development and about 10,000 square feet of warehouse. Most of the ACS Governors and Trans Time Directors have toured the structure and were favorably impressed. Trans Time has been looking for a suitable building to house its facility for some time. Various co-ownership, lease, or other working relationships, are being explored whereby Trans Time would locate its suspension and long-term storage facilities in the building. It is expected that most of the space would be leased and later occupied by cryonics or bio-tech firms as the leases expire and as we need the space. The building is metal-frame which, we understand, is a form of construction that is highly rated for earthquake and hurricane safety. It has a heat-activated sprinkler system throughout. If we decide we wish an even stronger structure surrounding our patient capsules (cryostats) a super-reinforced wing or separate building could be added. The purchase agreement prohibits discussion of the terms of purchase until ALAVIE takes possession. We can say, however, that it is being bought under favorable terms which reflect current economic conditions. We will explore the possibility of suspension members earmarking funds in their suspension trusts to be invested in the building. Cryonicists also could invest now in the interest of providing a better facility. Arnie Johnson suggests Northern Facility ACS member Arnie Johnson wrote to us with more information on his proposal to construct cryonics facilities in the far north. He sent information on real estate listings for land on which a facility could bebuilt in Inuvik Northwest Territories, Canada. One of the primary benefits from such far-north storage is the fact that capsules could be embeddedin the permafrost to ensure that any accidental warming would not result in the patients being thawed. We have long held the view that the construction or purchase of suspension facilities need not be an either/or proposition. A variety of options should be available to our members. Anyone wishing to correspond with Arnie on this interesting proposal can write him at our Cupertino address. ACS Suspends Brain Several ACS volunteers recently assisted ACS Vice President, Jerry White, in the suspension of his mother's brain. Jerry and other family members made the decision to freeze the brain only because of a number of factors including some resistance to full body suspension by some family members. The perfusion was done at a local mortuary with assistance from funeral directors. A pathologist removed the brain. Many lessons were learned from this suspension, perhaps the most important of which is the relative ease in getting cooperation from professionals and family members for a brain donation as opposed to full body or head-only suspension. Jerry is planning a detailed report in a future edition of The Immortalist. Captain Alpert Says "Thanks" Just before shipping out to serve in the Gulf War, Marine Captain Dana Alpert enrolled as a suspension member of the American Cryonics Society. Because we didn't know when the war would begin and because we absolutely positively wanted Captain Alpert to have a medic-alert emblem with emergency suspension phone number to wearinto battle, ACS member Annie Yount loaned the Captain her medic alert necklace. The Marine recently returned the necklace with a thank-you letter which also authorized us to reveal his name. Prior to this we had kept his identity confidential upon his request. Since the war, Captain Alpert has served with French forces in the Caribbean and will soon ship out to Norway. The necklace is well-worn and badly pitted and looks, well, like its been through a war! Captain Alpert offered to replace the bracelet. "No way," says Annie. "What a great war souvenir! I'll wear it proudly, knowing it mighthave saved the life of a U.S. Marine." We're trying to get Annie to give it up so it may be framed and exhibited in the ACS office. We've got a place all picked out for it in the lobby of our new national headquarters building! [Continued] -- (Edgar W. Swank) SPECTROX SYSTEMS +1.408.252.1005 Silicon Valley, Ca Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=659