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Cryogenics at home? Belt pens--which to use, and why not conventional art supply ones of same color

I realize there is a thread on this, so sorry if it bothers anyone to move this up the thread list.

The first I ever heard of the cryrogenic technique is through Clark's columns/newsletter, perhaps decades ago and before Belt if I recall correctly. Cryogenic freezing, from what I understand, involves temperatures well below what can be achieved in a conventional freezer section of frig. Mike B's approach seems closer to the home version of the laboratory ideal: dry ice. I wonder if all these changes are really "cryogenic" at these low temperatures. There is hard scientific proof of radically low temps altering metallic structure, as I remember from Clark's earlier reports, on such commercial things as drill bits for oil exploration. Can we really cryogenically freeze at home?

There are some interesting "new" tweaks (or new to me) at the Belt site including different color pens, black, violet, red, etc. The prose was prolix so I wasn't able to exactly figure out which color is indeed best for CD treatment. I can't understand--and it's not really explained-- why ordinary art supply colored pens of same color wouldn't work as well.

There are many new tweaks here, it seems. It's tough sledding going through the text--with many questions left unanswered. So now we are asked by Belt/Graham to refer to external sources to understand what they are doing. I

(The links/references/rationalizations of Belt's theories are now tied to renegade, nonetheless fascinating, musing of Rupert Sheldrake. I can't recall Belt ever using Sheldrake before in his effort to sell his rather expensive and to some rather nutty tweaks.)



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Topic - Cryogenics at home? Belt pens--which to use, and why not conventional art supply ones of same color - Celluloid 09:20:15 06/12/01 (10)


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