X-Message-Number: 7338
From:  (Brian Wowk)
Newsgroups: sci.cryonics
Subject: Re: My Senior Paper - Cryonics - Input requested (quick!)
Date: 19 Dec 96 16:29:09 GMT
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In <>  (Endquote) writes:

>As one scientist comments: "Believing cryonics could reanimate
>somebody who has been frozen is like believing you can turn a
>hamburger back into a cow."

	This famous quote of Arthur Rowe (originated by Peter Mazur?)
more than anything illustrates the total absence of serious thought
given to this question by cryobiologists.  Not only is the 
analogy inappropriate (cryoprotected frozen tissue isn't damaged
anywhere near as bad as hamburger), but the technology for
turning hamburger back into cows has existed for years.  Furthermore,
the technology for doing so is highly suggestive of the kind of future
technology that might allow revival of cryonics patients. 

	So (to prove that the average sci.cryonics reader is
more imaginative than the average cryobiologist) can anyone guess
how to turn hamburger back into a cow with existing technology?

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 Brian Wowk          CryoCare Foundation               1-800-TOP-CARE
 President           Human Cryopreservation Services   
    http://www.cryocare.org/cryocare/
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