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Cryonics Intelligence Test Responses

Introduction On 06 May, 2012 responses were solicited to what was termed The Cryonics Intelligence Test which was posted here on Chronosphere (see: http://wp.me/p1sGcr-vV). Two people responded to this public request to “take the test” and provide input on possible … Continue reading

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Much Less Than Half a Chance? Part 1

How to avoid autopsy and long ‘down-time’ (ischemia) better than ~85% of the time! By Mike Darwin It’s easy to concentrate on the biggest and most obvious reason that cryonics hasn’t attracted wider acceptance, principally the fact that it doesn’t … Continue reading

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When a Singularity Bites You in the Ass

 How to avoid autopsy and long ‘down-time’ (ischemia) ~85% of the time! By Mike Darwin   Foreplay It has taken me roughly 30 years to learn that having the technological capability to achieve some marvelous end is only a small … Continue reading

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Your Picture Won’t Be Hanging Here?

  Reception area of the Alcor Life Extension Foundation in Riverside, CA in April of 1987. The photos above the refreshments cart were of some of the patients in Alcor’s care at that time. Sometimes we get defeated by technology, … Continue reading

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Bon Voyage, Fred Chamberlain

By Mike Darwin Me and Mei Lei, settling down after dinner and a peek at the heart of the time machine, which was then kept in a shed in back of the the Chamberlains’ home in La Crescenta, in 1973. … Continue reading

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i Birth of a NeoInsurgent Cryonicst

By CryoX Illustrations by Mike Darwin This is a work of fiction  {or is it?} We Froze the First Fly. Great title. I could have written it. I should have written it. I’m an insect endocrinologist. This futon in the … Continue reading

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Three Strikes and You’re Out!

By Mike Darwin Left: Science Fiction writer Fred Pohl, with friend. Predicting the future is a tough business. It is an especially tough business when it is proposed  that the prediction be highly specific and technically accurate. Say, akin to … Continue reading

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THE EFFECTS OF CRYOPRESERVATION ON THE CAT, Part 3

IV. EFFECTS OF CRYOPRESERVATION ON THE HISTOLOGY OF SELECTED TISSUES (Left Ventricle and Cerebral Cortex) Left Ventricle Figure 43: The myofibrils of each cardiac muscle cell are branched and contain a single nucleus. The branches interlock with those of adjacent … Continue reading

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THE EFFECTS OF CRYOPRESERVATION ON THE CAT, Part 2

IV. EFFECTS OF CRYOPRESERVATION ON THE HISTOLOGY OF SELECTED TISSUES (Liver and Kidneys) Histology was evaluated in two animals each from the FIG and FIGP groups, and in one control animal.  Only brain histology was evaluated in the straight-frozen control … Continue reading

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THE EFFECTS OF CRYOPRESERVATION ON THE CAT, Part 1

by Michael Darwin, Jerry Leaf, Hugh L. Hixon I.    Introduction                                   II.   Materials and Methods III   Effects of Glycerolization IV.  Gross Effects of Cooling to and Rewarming From -196°C I. INTRODUCTION The  immediate  goal  of human cryopreservation  is  to  use  current … Continue reading

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