Dispensary Corner 26 Jul 11
July 26, 2011
A LIFE’S body of work.
The founder of the cryonics
movement, Robert Ettinger, has
been cryogenically frozen at his
US Cryonics Institute, following
his passing last week.
Ettinger wrote the seminal book
The Prospect of Immortality in
1962, which advocates and
explains the theory of cryogenics.
In a nutshell, cryogenics
promotes the storage of human
bodies post mortem, in freezing
temperatures (to avoid decay), so
that should a cure for ageing or
disease be found in the future,
they can be thawed and brought
back from the grave.
Ettinger was born in 1918 and
endured severe leg injuries in
WWII, which led to the limbs
being saved by bone graft
surgery and his subsequent
interest in the promise of future
medical technology.
A FEW science sums may have saved the day.
An overly zealous truck driver, eager to deliver his quarry of sand in Bejing’s Huairou, may have saved himself a whole lot of trouble by completing a simple calculation before driving onto the Baihe Bridge. According to reports, the truck was carrying 160 tonnes of sand - 105 more than the 55 tonne rating of the bridge. After just a few metres of travel on the bridge, the driver felt a sudden shift underneath his truck, which turned out to be the bridge, buckling and caving under the weight of sand and metal. Fortunately no one was injured in the bridge collapse, however the driver was escorted from the scene for “questioning”.
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