X-Message-Number: 9161
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 19:03:11 -0800
From: Hara Ra <>
Subject: Flash Heating

From: "Joseph J. Strout" <>

>But to build a biological brain, out of proteins and lipids and water --
>this is a very different thing!  Objects have to be built gradually, so how
>exactly does half a cell maintain its shape?  You'd have to do build it
>frozen, perhaps, but then you have the problem (well known in this forum)
>of thawing it out without killing it.  The only way around it that anyone
>has proposed (AFAIK), is to have Nanomachines infiltrated throughout the
>entire thing, watching for ice crystals and repairing damage as fast as it
>happens, while hopefully not doing even more damage themselves.

One might build the brain at low temperatures and include small
inclusions made of say, diamondiod materials within which is
stored energy on a nano scale, say high energy reactants (ie,
thermite) or flywheels. Upon a signal, all such inclusions
release their thermal energy which brings the brain up to a
temperature warmer than freezing. This would happen in a few
microseconds. Once past freezing, the rest of the warmup is via
standard medical techniques.
The inclusions could be designed to leave the body gradually
after being used.

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