Re: of plague dogs and cryonics



"...Dr. Lemler was willing to lead a tour of the Alcor complex,
including the entirely nondescript concrete room in which eight "big
foot" cylinders and two shorter ones are housed and monitored so their
inhabitants, bodies and heads immersed in liquid nitrogen, are assured
of an optimal chance for life after life."

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"The larger cylinders can accommodate up to five heads and four bodies,
which are stored upside down so that any leakage would first affect the
feet, nt the brain. The smaller cylinders can hold up to eight heads."

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For now, Dr. Lemler said, people prefer storing heads over bodies by a
ratio of about 2 to 1. He declined to provide specific numbers. One
reason, he acknowledged, is money. Heads cost less to maintain because
they require less space and fewer freezing compounds. But they also
provide all that might be necessary through future stem-cell growth
that would presumably restore the head to a fully healthy body."

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