X-Message-Number: 6685
Date: 05 Aug 96 04:29:17 EDT
From: Paul Wakfer <>
Subject: Reply to Brian Shock

In Cryomsg #6674 Brian Shock wrote:
>The Project's ten-year deadline obviously derives from JFK's moonshot
>goal in the 1960's.

As the creator of the Prometheus Project (although not its name), I can state
categorically that I did not even think of the moon shot. Furthermore, I
believe that there is virtually no similarity between it and the Prometheus
Project and that any comparison is bordering on the ridiculous.

The 10 years came from a simply doubling (to be conservative) of estimates
which had been made (and published on the Internet) for the time that it
would take for a full bore effort to produce fully reversible brain
cryopreservation. I also extended the time to 10 years because I knew that
success in raising the required funding would require more than this "simple"
goal. It would also require at least a good chance to convincingly
demonstrate to the public at large that the restored brain was *alive* with
all its memories and mental faculties intact (at least as much as they would
be from a similarly traumatic currently standard medical procedure).

I welcome criticism because that's the only way in which I will learn to
modify the project pledge campaign to be more successful (as with the
alteration announced in cryomsg #6676, which has immediately resulted in an
additional $85K per year in pledges), but try as I may, I cannot find
anything in your criticism which I can apply to advance the Project.


-- Paul --

!!!!! REVERSIBLE BRAIN CRYOPRESERVATION *CAN* BE ACHIEVED IN 10 YEARS !!!!!

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