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author Robert McIntyre <rlm@mit.edu>
date Thu, 04 Sep 2014 15:33:15 -0700
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29 #+begin_quote 29 #+begin_quote
30 There's no end to what a man can accomplish if he doesn't care about 30 There's no end to what a man can accomplish if he doesn't care about
31 getting credit. 31 getting credit.
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34 - validating neurocryopreservation :: Problem : you want to test
35 whether a brain is functionally preserved through vitrification,
36 but you don't want to figure out how to preserve all the other
37 organs in the animal. It might be possible to keep the rest of
38 the body at almost 0C and vitrify just the head for only a few
39 minutes. Induce hypothermia, then separate out the head's blood
40 supply from the rest of the body, then just cryoptotect and
41 vitrify the head. Might need some sort of thermal guard to keep
42 the outer head / neck from becoming too cold. You leave the
43 spinal cord intact! Then you devitrify to 0C, remove
44 cryoprotectant, and then reattach the blood supply. You can
45 determine brain preservation using behavioral assays!
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47 - freezing water purifier :: you slowly freeze water, but also run
48 liquid water over the frozen mass. This takes away basically all
49 impurities and creates "washed ice" then you melt the ice. Maybe
50 you could re-use the heat from creating the ice to melt the ice?
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52 - ultra strength :: allow a person to visualize their muscle
53 recruitment patterns. Give them adrenaline and let
54 them feel what it's like to have the normal limits
55 removed. See if they can replicate the effects.
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57 - phone names :: make a PX record for domain names that's like the MX
58 record, except that it is a phone number instead of
59 an IP address. That way, you can use the domain name
60 registration system to provide names for phone
61 numbers. Then, as long as you control the domain, you
62 can point people to your current phone number by
63 updating that record.
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65 - edible flowers :: Edible white flowers that you put in a colored
66 solution with flavor. When the flower turns the
67 right color, it is also flavored and ready to eat!
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34 - suicide cryonics :: according to [[http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/magazine/06suicide-t.html][this]], people who commit impulsive 69 - suicide cryonics :: according to [[http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/magazine/06suicide-t.html][this]], people who commit impulsive
35 suicides have a newfound sense of the importance of life. Perhaps 70 suicides have a newfound sense of the importance of life. Perhaps
36 they are good cryonics targets. 71 they are good cryonics targets.
37 72