X-Message-Number: 9319
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 14:12:27 -0500
From: <> (Jeffrey Soreff)
Subject: y2k and cryonics

Has anyone been looking at y2k effects on Cryonics?  LN2 suppliers run
industrial plants, just like manufacturers and utility companies.
Modern industrial plants are loaded with embedded controllers, and it
turns out that many of them are date sensitive.  I've seen expected y2k
controller failure rates from 10% to 50% from a number of sources.  I
know that this sounds odd (why should something that looks at pressures
and voltages care about dates?), but there are often functions like
logging which are date sensitive.  For an example of how a leap year
date problem shut down 660 process control computers and caused a
million dollars of physical damage at Tiwai Point, see RISKS DIGEST 18.74
(Risks-Forum Digest  Tuesday 7 January 1997  Volume 18 : Issue 74).
Are cryonics organizations making contingency plans for LN2 supply
interruptions?
                                                   Best wishes,
                                                   -Jeffrey Soreff
standard disclaimer: I do not speak for my employer.

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