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Umm, so Ted Williams is frozen in liquid nitrogen?

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buckethead1978

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I thought Ted Williams being frozen was one of those widely known bits of trivia. I bet more people know that about Teddy Ballgame than they do his baseball exploits.

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A guy who was a programmer on my staff when I was a manager at a defense contractor in San Diego is an Alcor (cryonics org) member. He has some kind of life insurance policy that will pay for his "suspension" in liquid nitrogen after death. He wears a bracelet with instructions for medical personal to immediately contact Alcor when he is critical or after he dies.

He arranged for me to tour the facility circa 1992 when it was in Riverside, CA. Some really strange people at that place. This was a few years after Eric Drexler's "Engines of Creation" book was published.

They all fully expected a nanotechnology revolution within 10 years that would have assemblers, tiny machines that can manipulate matter at the molecular level. These assemblers would build other molecular robotic machines that would be able to repair cell damage from cryonic freezing, plus, make or repair anything! It would be an unparalleled revolution in technology.

I read most of Drexler's books at the time. The prospects were extremely exciting and ... far fetched. Never happened.

The cryonics faithful are still hoping there is eventually a breakthrough and this kind of tech allows them, as a "patient", to be "reanimated".
 
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buckethead1978 said:
I thought Ted Williams being frozen was one of those widely known bits of trivia. I bet more people know that about Teddy Ballgame than they do his baseball exploits.

OP is going to be starting a thread soon about J Edgar Hoover crossdressing.
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The people of the 90’s were largely connecting to internet by dial up and communicating through AOL, but they were so impressed with themselves that beating death was on the horizon.

And this is why 90s were great
 
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This happened to his head afterwards, which is both funny and horrifying.

Larry Johnson says in the book "Frozen: My Journey Into the World of Cryonics, Deception and Death" that he watched an Alcor official swing a monkey wrench at Williams' frozen severed head to try to remove a tuna can stuck to it. The first swing accidentally struck the head, Johnson contends, and the second knocked the tuna can loose.

Alcor Life Extension Foundation of Scottsdale, Ariz., issued a statement on its Web site denying the allegations and promising legal action.

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Johnson says Alcor used the cans, from a cat that lived on the premises, as pedestals for the heads.

Williams' head was being transferred from one container to another when the monkey wrench incident took place, Johnson said in the book. When the head was removed from the first container, Johnson described it.

"The disembodied face set in that awful, frozen scream looked nothing like any picture of Ted Williams I've ever seen," he wrote.

Johnson said that an Alcor employee tried in vain to remove the tuna can.

"Then he grabbed a monkey wrench, heaved a mighty swing, missing the tuna can completely but hitting the head dead center," Johnson wrote. "Tiny pieces of frozen head sprayed around the room."
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