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- From: tsf+@cs.cmu.edu (Timothy Freeman)
- Newsgroups: sci.cryonics,news.answers
- Subject: Cryonics FAQ 8: Communications
- Summary: This posting contains a list of Frequently Asked Questions
- and their answers about cryonics, the practice of carefully preserving
- very recently clinically and legally dead people in hopes that they can be
- revived in the future. It should be read
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- Date: 1 Jan 93 08:37:07 GMT
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- Section 8: Communications
-
- (You can fetch cryomsg "n" by sending mail to kqb@whscad1.att.com or
- to kevin.q.brown@att.com with the subject line "CRYOMSG n". The index
- to this FAQ list is cryomsg "0018.1".)
-
- 8-1. How can I get more information?
-
- Steve Bridge's "Introduction to Cryonics" gives a quick, three-page
- overview of cryonics. This overview is cryomsg 972.
-
- For a more detailed introduction, including a discussion of the
- scientific evidence that freezing injury may be repairable, read the
- booklet "Cryonics: Reaching for Tomorrow", which is available from the
- Alcor Life Extension Foundation (Question 6-4 has the address). The
- first copy is free. It also includes an extensive Question and Answer
- section.
-
- The books "Engines of Creation" and "Unbounding the Future", by
- K. Eric Drexler, et al. describe nanotechnology (also called
- molecular nanotechnology or molecular engineering). This is the
- kind of technology needed to revive anyone preserved with today's
- methods of cryonic suspension.
-
- The largest three suspension organizations each have newsletters. For
- contact information about on them, see the answer to Question 6-4.
-
- 8-2. What is a cryomsg? How do I fetch one?
-
- There has been a cryonics mailing list since July 1988.
- Cryomsg's are mostly the archived messages from this mailing list.
-
- To get a cryomsg, send mail to kqb@whscad1.att.com or to
- kevin.q.brown@att.com with the subject "CRYOMSG nnn nnn" where the
- nnn's are the numbers of the cryomsg's you want. Cryomsgs numbers
- 100, 200, ..., 900 have one line summaries of the preceding 100
- cryomsg's. Message number 0000 has a top level index, and message
- number 0001 has the subjects of all of the messages. Message 0004
- has a list of cryonics suspension organizations and also
- cryonics-related organizations and publications. Message 0005 is
- entitled "Suggested reference messages for new subscribers".
-