Stephen Valentine's Timeship presentation

I listened to part of architect Stephen Valentine's live, online presentation about the Timeship project during Suspended Animation's conference last Saturday. Apparently the investors have bought land for it already, near a major city in central Texas from what I've heard. The property already has a Southern plantation-looking house which will serve as a conference facility, research lab, lodging for visitors, etc.

The Timeship itself, as Valentine described it, will incorporate various kinds of symbolism in its construction which don't serve any practical purpose. He made it sound more like a Masonic temple than a functional building for the scientific and medical objectives of cryonics.

Eh, that gives me a bad vibe. I'd like to see that sort of money spent towards more urgent needs in cryonics.