X-Message-Number: 9665
Date: Sat, 9 May 1998 09:04:17 -0700
From: Tim Freeman <>
Subject: Holes in the Mona Lisa; We are perceived as kooks

From: "Christopher M. Rasch" <>
>	Applying current cryonics techniques is like taking a micro-blowtorch
>to the brain at a million different points.

Could you be more specific here?  What is the distance between the
wounds compared to the size of other structures in the brain?  What
makes you think it is like a blowtorch rather than a crushing?  If
someone poked a bunch of holes in the Mona Lisa with a pencil, it
wouldn't be hard to get it back, so it matters which analogy you
choose.

>	Although there are a number of reasons why people don't sign up, I
>would argue that a principal reason is because we have been classified
>as largely benign "kooks" by most media, just like the UFOologists, New
>Age homeopaths, and astrologers. 

I agree completely with this.  Check out Yahoo's positioning of
Cryonics in its heirarchy.  It's under "Alternative Science", next to the
Flat Earth society and the perpetual motion machines.
-- 
Tim Freeman       
            http://www.infoscreen.com/resume.html
Web-centered Java, Perl, and C++ programming in Silicon Valley or offsite

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