Mercurial > thoughts
changeset 133:35eb4c1a7bf7
add more ideas.
author | Robert McIntyre <rlm@mit.edu> |
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date | Thu, 04 Sep 2014 15:33:15 -0700 |
parents | a987c5691130 |
children | b6cbdd5a9547 |
files | org/ideas.org |
diffstat | 1 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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1.1 --- a/org/ideas.org Sat Aug 02 14:13:14 2014 -0400 1.2 +++ b/org/ideas.org Thu Sep 04 15:33:15 2014 -0700 1.3 @@ -31,6 +31,41 @@ 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.