Re: Teddy Ballgame

[Kim Malo <kimmalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 07:14 PM 8/12/2003 -0700, John Lyell wrote:
> An interesting story on Ted Williams and his decapitation. Believe me this
> is true. This company Alcor does this. They used to be located near me and
> there was a big story about 10 years ago with a missing head . They have
> since packed their bags and moved to AZ
>
> http://www.sportsline.com/mlb/story/6561599
>
> http://www.aarrgghh.com/no_way/cryo.htm

Yeah, I read about it. Dora Kent. There's a wonderful version of that tale 
in a wierd but very amusing book: "Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman 
Condition: Science Slightly over the Edge" by Ed Regis  that discusses 
Alcor in general too. I knew about them before the Williams thing from 
having read it.
Hmm, forgot about that book. Y'know the title story offers some interesting 
strength and conditioning possibilities for building up the 
boys...   Someone was trying to test ways of, if I recall properly, forcing 
a more rapid development physically from man to uberman via chickens in a 
centrifuge. Left them in there for a while that ended up being quite a few 
generations in chicken time and were shocked at the muscular monsters that 
finally emerged - great mambo chicken. If memory serves, the Alcor chapter 
is titled "heads will roll" <evil grin>
Kim