X-Message-Number: 8471
From: Anders Sandberg <>
Newsgroups: sci.cryonics
Subject: Re: An analogy
Date: 18 Aug 1997 18:49:00 +0200
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Bob Whitaker <>:
>John de Rivaz wrote:
>> 
>>I would add to this that leaving it to the last minute is analagous to hoping
>>that life extension technology may make the use of cryonics redundant, ie the
>>subject lives until an age where life can be extended a bit, and then during
>>this "bit" it can be extended further and so on.
>
>   This is very important, and we need a term for it.

What about the "Breakeven point" or "Life expectancy breakeven",
in analogy to the fusion term for the point where energy added
equals energy gained from fusion. 

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