[extropy-chat] frozen lobsters thaw to lob another day

[Jeff Davis]

--- "Robert J. Bradbury" <bradbury at aeiveos.com> wrote:

> One can easily compare lobsters with tortises -- top
of their local food chain, protected from external
harm, etc.  Allows one to evolve a very robust genome
-- which may include being able to be frozen from time
to time (the North Atlantic *does* get very cold).

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On a cryonics related note, it would be interesting to
compare the genomes of the survivors and
non-survivors.  Are they the same, with survival the
result of some external factor, or are they different
with survival the result of genetic variation?

If the latter, then one could look for the genetic
basis of freeze resistance: a gene for a protein
perhaps useful in a cryoprotectant protocol, or on a
more mundane level, do a "freeze and breed" to develop
a variety of lobster which could be frozen and "fresh"
at the same time.

It's truly exciting to be living in a season of
low-hanging fruit. 

Best, Jeff Davis

   "Everything's hard till you know how to do it."
                           Ray Charles 



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