X-Message-Number: 9208 Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 06:25:25 -0800 From: Paul Wakfer <> Subject: Re: CryoNet #9203 - #9207 References: <> In Message #9207, on Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Charles Platt wrote: > [With reference to Allen Hardy] Will the Prometheus Project (for > which you serve as a lay attorney, as I understand it) also avoid paying > taxes using this cunning technique? Please, Charles. You know better than that. The Prometheus Project is merely an idea and a pledge campaign. It has no formal status as any kind of organization at all. What kind of organization will execute the Prometheus Project if it should ever be realized is still an open question which is a long way from yet needing a resolution since the pledge total is only at the $400K/yr level. > Should the people who have pledged > money to the Prometheus Project feel confident that your legal advice is > based on actual experience and case law? The Prometheus pledges are all *conditional* pledges. No money is collectable until science plans have been formulated, an organization has been formed to execute the science plans, scientists have committed themselves to the project, and pledgers with a total of $1million in pledges have accepted the plans, personnel and organization. The Prometheus Project is not a trivial task. Many things: scientists, plans, organization, personnel, are highly likely to change back and forth as we try to find a path through the impossible maze of difficulties which is interposed between those of us who earnestly desire it, and the successful conclusion of the Project. If this wasn't so then suspended animation would already be perfected, right? There is no need or purpose to feel either way, confident or unconfident about what has not yet transpired. The current hippocampal brain slice project (it will no longer be called the Prometheus Pilot Project) for which I will very soon be posting full details, will most likely be executed for expediency and better interface with the establishment university research institute where it is being conducted, by an already approved 501(c)(3) corporation called the Institute Of Neural Cryobiology (IONC). Final plans for that arrangement are being worked out even as the final touches are being put on the research proposal to be submitted to the university institute in early March. All pledgers will be informed of the final arrangements and if any wish to have their money back because of any changes in the situation they will be entirely welcome to request it. Charles, if you are not happy being a pledger for whatever reason, you are free to withdraw your pledge with my "blessing" at any time. The same holds for any other pledger. Please let me know and I will strike you from the list and reduce the pledge total accordingly. -- Paul -- Voice/Fax: 909-481-9620 Page: 800-805-2870 The Prometheus Project -- http://prometheus.morelife.org Perfected Suspended Animation for Patient Stabilization until Cures for Their Terminal Diseases are Available Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=9208