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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. I...
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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...
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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...
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Much Less Than Half a Chance? Part 2
How to avoid autopsy and long ‘down-time’ (ischemia) better than ~85% of the time! By Mike Darwin Ischemia: The Problem of “Long Down Time” Almost every cryonicist I’ve ever spoken with envisions his...
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Much Less Than Half a Chance Part 3
How to avoid autopsy and long ‘down-time’ (ischemia) ~85% of the time! By Mike Darwin Removing a Central Objection to Cryonics In case you missed it, what I just said in that slim paragraph at the end...
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Much Less Than Half a Chance Part 4
Screening for the Risk of Deanimation The term “screening” is used in medicine to describe routine examinations or diagnostic procedures of a defined group of individuals to identify diseases or risk...
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Dr. Crippen on Mr. Darwin*
By introduction, I am Dave Crippen, MD, Professor of Critical Care Medicine and Neurological Surgery at the UPMC Medical Center in Pittsburgh. Some of you may know me. I’m the moderator for 18 years...
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Freezing People Is Easy
Clockwise: Owen Wilson, Paul Rudd, Kirsten Wiig, Christopher Walken, with Errol Morris in the center. By Mike Darwin Sometime in the next few months, it seems likely that Director Errol Morris’ take on...
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Myth and Memory in Cryonics
By Mike Darwin Steven B. Harris, M.D. In September of 1988, Steve Harris, M.D., published an essay entitled The Day the Earth Stood Still: Cryonics and the Resurrection of the Mythic Hero. It was one...
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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...
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