CryoNet #32379 - #32380

CryoNet - Fri 12 Feb 2010

    #32379: mark-roth-on-suspended-animation [Luca]
    #32380: Re: cryonics terminology [David Stodolsky]

Rate This Digest: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=32379%2D32380

Administrivia

To subscribe to CryoNet, send email to:
    [email protected]
with the subject line (not message _body_):
    subscribe
To unsubscribe, use the subject line:
    unsubscribe
To post a message to CryoNet, send your message to:
    [email protected]
from the same address to which you are aubscribed.


----------------------------------------------------------------------

Message #32379
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:37:29 +0100
From: Luca <[email protected]>
Subject: mark-roth-on-suspended-animation

Very interesting piece about suspended animation.
Roth is speaking about human trials.

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/02/mark-roth-on-mice-and-men/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+%28Wired%3A+Index+3+%28Top+Stories+2%29%29

Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=32379

----------------------------------------------------------------------

Message #32380
From: David Stodolsky <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: cryonics terminology
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:20:24 +0100
References: <[email protected]>

On 8 Feb 2010, at 11:00 AM, CryoNet wrote:

> cryonaut sounds like a good PR term, given that astronaut, or  
> cosmonaut refers to a person that is engaged in high adventure  
> travelling in a spacecraft

It is good PR, but it constricts us to a given technology. Someone  
could come up with a way to vitrify the human body at room  
temperature. (The more general term along this line would be 'time  
traveller', but that has other associations.) So, the term 'suspendee'  
strikes me as having a longer 'shelf life' than cryonaut. The term  
seems to have been in use since at least 1995:
X-Message-Number: 4703

Both terms yield about 9,000 hits on Google.


dss


David Stodolsky
[email protected]  Skype: davidstodolsky

Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=32380

----------------------------------------------------------------------

End of CryoNet Digest
*********************