X-Message-Number: 6894 From: (Randy Smith) Subject: Re: research, PPP Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 12:05:25 GMT wrote: > ---- CryoNet Message Auto-Forwarded by <> ---- >From: >Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 17:06:07 -0400 >Subject: SCI. CRYONICS research, PPP >Now, attention please all Prometheus Project (PP) pledgers: >Your pledges to PP will not require cash until 1998. Probably most >of you could begin those annual payments now, if PP were ready to >go. For most of you, the motive is mainly to improve the chances of >survival for yourselves and your families. So why not consider >making a donation equal to your annual pledge NOW for a project >that is READY to go with very promising NEW technology? (You might >think of it as the Prometheus Precursor Project, PPP.) Maybe give >half to IS and half to Alcor. That will HELP PP, since PP will then >be ready to launch, in 1998, from a much higher base of >information. On the face of it, this sounds like a splendid idea, Bob. I've pledged to Prometheus because I want the best freeezing protocol possible. The only problem is, Bob, that I might want to sign up with Cryocare or ACS and in a previous post you mentioned that Alcor & CI would want to sell rights to use this protocol to other cryo orgs. Now, what if I donate to this research and it turns out to be the perfect freezing protocol and that I've also signed up with Cryocare. Now, in that case, based on what I've read in the past on sci.cryonics, Cryonet and the archives of same, it wouldn't surprise me one bit if Alcor/CI decided to either not sell the rights to Cryocare or decided to make the price rather steep for that company (or all other companies). What I'm talking about, Bob, is the seemingly substantial personal animus felt toward Cryocare by the board members of Alcor, and, quite possibly, by you as well. Quite simply, what I'm talking about is a lack of trust. Randy Smith Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=6894