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 Message-ID: <> References: <> 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? *************************************************************************** Brian Wowk CryoCare Foundation 1-800-TOP-CARE President Human Cryopreservation Services http://www.cryocare.org/cryocare/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=7338