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Induction of Hypothermia in the Cryonics Patient: Theory and Technique, Part 1
By Mike Darwin Understanding Hypothermia The Q10 Rule and Protective Hypothermia Hypothermia is widely understood to protect against ischemia by virtue of its ability to slow metabolic rate. In man, each 10oC decrement of temperature reduction (below 37oC) results in … Continue reading
Commercial Air Transport of the Cryopreservation Patient
By Mike Darwin Preparing the Patient for Shipment Closed chest cardiopulmonary support (CPS) will generally be discontinued either at the start of in-field cardiopulmonary bypass, or when the patient’s frontal sinus or tympanic temperature reaches ~ 15ºC. Due to hypothermia-induced … Continue reading
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The Armories of the Latter Day Laputas, Part 3
By Mike Darwin “When reason fails, the devil helps!” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky , Crime and Punishment The Entropy of Empire There are, no doubt, many reasons why men aspire to become the chief executive officers (CEOs) of nation-states turned empires, … Continue reading
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The Armories of the Latter Day Laputas – Part 2
By Mike Darwin Figure 11: Linda Chamberlain (and dog Terra) stands next to the emergency entry/egress site of the Titan 1 missile site near Yuba City, CA. We spent 2 days at Titan 1 Base # 1, which was attached … Continue reading
The Armories of the Latter Day Laputas – Part 1
Figure 1: A very special apple orchard in Pervomaysk, Ukraine. Laputa was the fictional floating city in Jonathan Swift’s 1726 bitingly satirical novel Gulliver’s Travels, whose inhabitants could maneuver about using magnetic levitation. Laptua was populated by a ruling class … Continue reading
Going, Going, Gone… Part 3
The Urgent Need for a Brain Centered Approach to Geroprotection for Cryonicists WHAT ABOUT THE SINGULARITY AND OUR IMMINENT RESCUE BY ADVANCES IN GERONTOLOGY? Figure 19: Putative technological timeline for the development of technologies now thought to be required to … Continue reading
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Going, Going, Gone… Part 2
The Urgent Need for a Brain Centered Approach to Geroprotection for Cryonicists By Mike Darwin SENIOR MOMENTS Interestingly, and perhaps somewhat hopefully, the decay of PP axons seems confined largely to two of the nine circuits in this system, as … Continue reading
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Going, Going, Gone…
The Urgent Need for a Brain Centered Approach to Geroprotection for Cryonicists Part I: A Survey of the Problem & a Proposed New Strategy By Mike Darwin 1964: Dying Then vs. Dying Now In 1964, the year The Prospect of … Continue reading
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A Visit to Alcor
“Are you interested in the whole body or the neuro? And would you like fries and a Coke with that?” By Mike Darwin Introduction A short while ago, I hosted 3 visitors from the Russian cryonics organization KrioRus. During … Continue reading
Cryonics, Nanotechnology and Transhumanism: Utopia Then and Now
Over the past few years there has been increasing friction between a subset of cryonicists, and people in the Transhumanist (TH) and Technological Singularity communities, most notably those who follow the capital N, Nanotechnology doctrine.[1, 2] Or perhaps more accurately, … Continue reading