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     1.4  getting credit.
     1.5  #+end_quote
     1.6  
     1.7 +- validating neurocryopreservation :: Problem : you want to test
     1.8 +     whether a brain is functionally preserved through vitrification,
     1.9 +     but you don't want to figure out how to preserve all the other
    1.10 +     organs in the animal. It might be possible to keep the rest of
    1.11 +     the body at almost 0C and vitrify just the head for only a few
    1.12 +     minutes. Induce hypothermia, then separate out the head's blood
    1.13 +     supply from the rest of the body, then just cryoptotect and
    1.14 +     vitrify the head. Might need some sort of thermal guard to keep
    1.15 +     the outer head / neck from becoming too cold. You leave the
    1.16 +     spinal cord intact! Then you devitrify to 0C, remove
    1.17 +     cryoprotectant, and then reattach the blood supply. You can
    1.18 +     determine brain preservation using behavioral assays!
    1.19 +
    1.20 +- freezing water purifier :: you slowly freeze water, but also run
    1.21 +     liquid water over the frozen mass. This takes away basically all
    1.22 +     impurities and creates "washed ice" then you melt the ice. Maybe
    1.23 +     you could re-use the heat from creating the ice to melt the ice?
    1.24 +
    1.25 +- ultra strength :: allow a person to visualize their muscle
    1.26 +                    recruitment patterns. Give them adrenaline and let
    1.27 +                    them feel what it's like to have the normal limits
    1.28 +                    removed. See if they can replicate the effects.
    1.29 +
    1.30 +- phone names :: make a PX record for domain names that's like the MX
    1.31 +                 record, except that it is a phone number instead of
    1.32 +                 an IP address. That way, you can use the domain name
    1.33 +                 registration system to provide names for phone
    1.34 +                 numbers. Then, as long as you control the domain, you
    1.35 +                 can point people to your current phone number by
    1.36 +                 updating that record. 
    1.37 +
    1.38 +- edible flowers :: Edible white flowers that you put in a colored
    1.39 +                    solution with flavor. When the flower turns the
    1.40 +                    right color, it is also flavored and ready to eat! 
    1.41 +
    1.42  - suicide cryonics :: according to [[http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/magazine/06suicide-t.html][this]], people who commit impulsive
    1.43       suicides have a newfound sense of the importance of life. Perhaps
    1.44       they are good cryonics targets.