All,
Found this on the Beeb site;
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/in_depth/sci_tech/2000/festival_of_science/
newsid_920000/920778.stm
>Humans might one day be able to enter a state
> of "suspended animation" by studying the
> secrets of the echidna, one of the oldest
> surviving mammals in the world.
>
Sounds interesting, and Dr Rismiller says this;
>If we could naturally lower metabolism, then it
> would be of great benefit for medical purposes
> and secondly looking at space travel and
> things like that.
>
....although she mentions it in the context of surgery, not cryonics.
All the same, might prove useful.
James...
J & J Corbally ~ Eire
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