ALCOR site They deal in cryonics, and run out of of Arizona. It's enlightening. I learned that death isn't an event, but a process. I learned that a frozen brain is called a 'neuropatient'. I learned that the consenting dead are referred to as 'Alcor members'. And I learned that the people at Alcor are as creepy as hell.
Check out the pic of Dr. Mike Perry, making some very important notes next to the bottle of frozen nitrogen. Note the ease at which he interacts with his technology (including the floppy disk drive). Anyway, Perry's main job is to maintain the deep cold phase of patient care. That's the bit where after you die, they cut out your brain and freeze it. This is where Perry really shines. No-one cares for removed dead brains like Perry. He is also a leader in the Venturism movement, which I just learned is a religion based on the ellimination of death. He authored the feelgood classics Toward Self-Optimization of Machine Intelligence and Forever for All: Moral Philsophy, Cryonics and the Scientific Prospects for Immortality.
And after all this, Time Magazine still doesn't give him Person of the Year? For the love of God...
2 comments:
The semi-built state of his critical systems monitoring computer concerns me.
Dr. Perry does have a proven track record in cryonics. However, check out the profile of the Equipment Fabricator (isn't that the guy who, uh, makes the stuff?) His previous job experience includes, as quoted in full below, Vault Coin Room Manager, Radio DJ, and bookkeeper. I'd rather have Dr. Perry converting my brain to Venturism while I'm 'dead' than let some goateed college radio funkmaster explain the process to 'cryonics' to me while I'm 'alive.'
Randal Fry, ext. 104
Equipment Fabricator
randal@alcor.org
Randal joined the Alcor staff in June 2006. Born in Bakersfield, California, in 1965, he has acquired a great number of skills ranging from construction to radio personality to management and accounting. He is also very capable at working with his hands which is the role he has assumed here at Alcor. Research & Development requires equipment that is not always available off the shelf. As our primary fabricator, Randal takes the imagination of our researchers and transforms it into a working piece of equipment.
Before coming to Alcor, Randal was a Vault Coin Room Supervisor at the Riverside Resort Hotel & Casino in Laughlin, Nevada. His duties there included supervising a staff of 15 to 18 employees and maintaining a $1.3 million bank window. Before his employment at the Riverside Casino, he worked as a bookkeeper / office manager for a major automotive shop in Bakersfield while also working as a radio DJ and broadcast board operator.
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