The Magothy is the largest of Long Island's aquifers. Consisting of sand deposits alternating with clay, it attains a maximum thickness of approximately 1,100 feet and is the source of water for most of Nassau County and about half of Suffolk County.
Cryonics (from Greek ÎºÏÏÎ¿Ï 'kryos-' meaning 'cold') is the low-temperature preservation of animals and humans who cannot be sustained by contemporary medicine, with the hope that healing and resuscitation may be possible in the future.owever, the idea of cryonics also includes preservation of people long after legal death because of the possibility that brain structures that encode memory and personality may still persist and be inferable in the future.
'Once a cell is vitrified it can continue to survive right down to incredibly low temperatures. It just can't do much until it warms up.' More complex organisms are able to survive at lower temperatures because they are able to control the medium the cells sit in to some extent. 'Bacteria, unicellular algae and unicellular fungi â of which there are a huge amount in the world-are free-living because they don't rely on other organisms ,' Clarke explains.