alcor doesn't have any legal obligation to the people stored here, as they technically donated theirity for this. these are passive vessels, they're just gigantic, very expensive thermos flasks and you don't plug your thermos flask into electricity. we just use the liquid nitrogen, which boils off at —320, to maintain that temperature. alcor says it's a non—profit making organisation and that it has 1,150 people signed up for its services, including silicon valley billionaire peter thiel. but what motivates ordinary people to shell out up to $200,000 for cryogenic preservation? back in the uk, derek watkinson has signed himself and his family up for just that via a different outfit called the cryonics institute. i imagine being on my deathbed, dying, and then immediately waking up. if it's gonna work, i'm gonna wake up straightaway, ‘cause the passage of time won't mean anything, because i will be dead. so i'll wake up immediately and hopefully i'll be able to remember things. my memory will be intact, hopefully. who i am. your whole family is going to be preserved as well? yeah. luc

so if you read silent spring or alcor's first book the population or any of these kind of classics that many of us had to read in college all of their ideas stem from and he is a guy that first took a concept that has been floating around for a few years at the plate called carinthat point calledcaring cat an individual environment can only support so much so if you have a meadow will b only a cern number can either photographs and then it won't be productive anymore. he said the earth has this capacity gets under a different name for an ecological limits for planetary boundaries. so the basic idea is natural cycles and resources and if we consume too much of them, they will be very bad consequences to follow from that. if you think about these, they are kind of the opposite of one another. one assist makes more in a smart way and the other is so everybody can win. no, you hunker down and conserve otherwise everyone will lose. this is part of what makes the book such a brilliantly explanatory framework for understanding these things, but here is what i keep coming back to. you are assid