BTW, when you have two cryonics options in the U.S., Alcor and CI, Ci has status simply from existing, because something > nothing, and because it still has some reputation capital left over from the fact that Robert Ettinger founded it.
If a third, capable cryonics organization came online, it would probably view Alcor as its competition, and that might have the effect of pushing CI into the outer darkness which TransTime entered over 30 years ago.
“Trans-what?” you might ask. Apparently it still exists and it has perhaps three suspendees, including the brain of Luna Wilson, Robert Anton Wilson’s daughter murdered in the 1970′s. Or so I’ve heard, because my efforts to contact anyone at TransTime to confirm the disposition of Luna’s brain have not resulted in responses.
BTW, when you have two cryonics options in the U.S., Alcor and CI, Ci has status simply from existing, because something > nothing, and because it still has some reputation capital left over from the fact that Robert Ettinger founded it.
If a third, capable cryonics organization came online, it would probably view Alcor as its competition, and that might have the effect of pushing CI into the outer darkness which TransTime entered over 30 years ago.
“Trans-what?” you might ask. Apparently it still exists and it has perhaps three suspendees, including the brain of Luna Wilson, Robert Anton Wilson’s daughter murdered in the 1970′s. Or so I’ve heard, because my efforts to contact anyone at TransTime to confirm the disposition of Luna’s brain have not resulted in responses.
Reference:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/160354250/That-70-s-Transhumanism-A-Review-of-Cosmic-Trigger-Final-Secret-of-the-Illuminati