immortaz | Дух современной крионики.

Несколько дней назад в английской "Гвардиан" вышла статья по крионике
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/nov/07/cryonics-british-dads-army

Как постепенно выясняется из комментариев в иностранных рассылках, в статье
много откровенной брехни, но за этот пасаж ей можно все простить.

Я просто тащусь, это одна из самых лучших сцен, что публиковали о крионике в СМИ.
В сцене участвуют всемирно известный эксперт по крионике Майк Дарвин и
английский миллионер-крионист Алэн Синклер.

Mike Darwin's eyes get bluer and bluer until they turn green. Darwin does
not simply proselytise for cryonics, he proselytises for cryonics as big
business.

But, he says, you're not going to get anywhere until you start giving it the
time and expertise it needs. "In America, we didn't do it until we started
regular animal experiments. You need to establish a teaching and training
environment. Read the book The Knife Man, about John Hunter, one of the
greatest men in your country. The greatest surgeon in London, and they
wouldn't even let him lecture in the official facilities. He had to build his
own building in his home to teach his students." Darwin feels he has much in
common with Hunter, a prophet without honour. "He created disciples, students
who went all over the world and took what he taught them. That's what we were
trying to do; establish an environment to create a self-perpetuating
professionalism."

"That's what we're trying to create," Alan protests.

"No," Darwin says. "No, no you didn't and you couldn't for several reasons.
One, you couldn't do the animal experiments – the culture here prohibits it.
I'm sorry to highlight disagreements, but this is where we are at. The key to
a stable cryonics organisation is to store patients. The instant you do that,
people take you serious, because you have taken on the commitment to care for
people for a long, long time. The men from the boys are quickly separated at
that point. Two-thirds of the people who were on my suspension team in the
70s and 80s are now on liquid nitrogen – people I laughed with, had dinner
with, shared personal animosity with, shared great triumphs with, shared
personal friendships with. That is what really holds the group together, and
it becomes a tangible place that people can show and go to."

"I always intended to do storage," Alan says, "but I thought I was too old."

Darwin gets a "gotcha" glint in his eye. "Alan, you've just given the reason
why it didn't happen. You were the principal person people looked to here for
leadership, and when you said, 'I don't want to be stored here', that was a
no-confidence buster for everybody else."

Silence.

Darwin: "I want to advance my field – cryonics."

Alan: "So do we all, but we can't work full-time on it."

Darwin: "With no experience, you will fuck that patient up. Every time. Not
just once. Every time. Get training and practise." That, Darwin says, is the
key to progress. "The teaching environment was wrecked by Jerry's arrest,
then they got rid of me, and then they got rid of everyone systematically."
Nobody blinks when he mentions the arrest.

Alan: "What practice can we do?"

Darwin sets them a challenge: "Do a really honest demonstration, with pre-set
goals, and see how many mistakes you make."

Из этой сцены становится понятен уровень современной крионики, и настрой ее
стейкхолдеров.

Ну а на закуску - 48 прекрасных фотографий о современной крионике
Алькор, ИК, КриоФридом, Криорус, Европейская крионика.
http://www.murrayballard.com/index.cfm?p=8835&g=8718&x=2