Comments on: In Thy Orisons Be All My Sins Remembered*

By: John

John — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 18:08:27 +0000

I was believed that those who were in the capsules has been buried at the same oakwood cemetery. Isn´t true? if they are interred there why do you need a memorial monument maybe is enough with a plate. I, m sorry maybe I´m mistake and there is no one intered there. has just past 40 years since that, and nobody really should forget. This site is the exemple and there are more.

By: chronopause

chronopause — Fri, 18 May 2012 05:34:21 +0000

I just looked at the map at your link, and if my memory is correct, the facility was somewhere on Lassen Street not too far from the mausoleums. I’ve been there several times, the first time in 1974 when the mausoleums were under construction. The mausoleums sit on a rise and look down on the area where the CSC facility once was. If I recall correctly, the facility was on the right hand side of the road. In ’74 we climbed the hill in back of one of the mausoleums to see the two big perlite insulated cryogenic tanks that Nelson had purchased and which were to be used as “multiple (patient) storage units,”(MSUs). MSU was the jargon of the time for a single large vessel that would hold 10 or even 20 patients, the idea being to reduce storage costs by reducing the heat leak via the improved surface to volume ratio. At that time, MSUs were perceived to be the holy grail of efficiency in cryonics and the NEXT BIG STEP FORWARD. — Mike Darwin

By: chronopause

chronopause — Fri, 18 May 2012 05:14:21 +0000

I have no idea where the facility site was/is; I haven’t been there in over 30 years. Oakwood Cemetery is easy enough to locate using Google Maps, but beyond that, I haven’t the foggiest. I will inquire (if I can communicate effectively) with the author of the piece to see if he has the precise coordinates, which I presume would be a series of plot numbers in the cemetery. That would still require the cooperation of management. An alternative might possibly be to find someone in cryonics such as Mike Perry or Ken Blye who knows where the spot is and who could get GPS coordinates as well as generate a set of directions as to how to reach the site.

The original version of this article came to me in Russian and the machine translation to English was almost incomprehensible. I sent it to Danila Medvedev, who subsequently informed me that the Russian text, while original (not machine translated) was very poor Russian. Further inquiry resulted in a machine translated version (from Japanese to English????) which was usable, with much added editing. Communication has been abysmal and, had I not liked the ideas so much, I would not have put the considerable amount of time and trouble into making the article suitable for publication that I did. It’s a very strange and intricate idea, but I like it a lot. — Mike Darwin

By: Mark Plus

Mark Plus — Thu, 17 May 2012 22:05:09 +0000

It would help if you could point out the location on the map:

http://g.co/maps/kaqj7