How Cold Is Cold Enough?
They tend to run on and on there at Alcor sometimes. MY take on this, and I’ve got a few degrees in biology, is that if you intend to rebuild and re-animate with nanotechnology, you’ll be manipulating the molecules to do this. It shouldn’t matter the condition of the molecule, as long as it’s all there, and you have the blueprint to re-structure it like it was originally. Whether you’re talking 1% or 50%, it doesn’t matter. if you have to re-build any, you’ll have to be able to re-build all. You should, theoretically, be able to re-animate an egyptian mummy (if you had all the jars) or the Iceman found in the glacier in Europe. Just add water and nanobots. In the scheme of re-animation by nanobots, temperature of historical storage is not all that critical. there are other, more serious problems with cryonic preservation that need to be dealt with.
After all, it’s really cold there, and all this fooling around with liquid nitrogen seems like a lot of unnecessary hassle. And besides, it’s (free/costs less)(circle appropriate words). -various people, some of them ostensibly with scientific educations. Misapprehensions concerning why we use liquid nitrogen for cryonic storage fall into roughly three classes: 1) Economic considerations; 2) Legitimate bafflement caused by the use of a simple arithmetic temperature scale where a more complex scale is much more appropriate; 3) Disnumeria, or disability to deal with numbers. This may range from reluctance to use a calculator to inability to count above five, because you need the other hand for counting. The temperature scale for people so afflicted goes something like: very hot-hot-warm-comfortable-cool-cold-very cold-freezing. I will attempt to answer 2) and 3) together, with an explanation and examples, and then treat the economic aspect in a short afterword. For a suspension patient,
