I really agree with this! Contact is one of my all time favorite movies. And since
many months I'm thinking about how and where to find women like Eleanor
Arroway for telling them about the Extropy Institute, the Singularity and/or
Cryonics - and Transhumanism in general. However, I'm still in the ideas
collecting phase... I'm working on a new www.posthuman.com site which (I
hope) will attract more women. The site is planned to feature a mailinglist, as
well. Suggestions/thoughts/ideas of my fellow Extropians are always welcome :-)
Thanks also for the link!
4/26/01 1:43:57 AM, "Mark Plus" <markplus@hotmail.com> wrote:
>The more times I watch _Contact_, the more I like Jodie Foster's portrayal
>of radio astronomer Eleanor Arroway. (Since I have trouble pronouncing "R"
>sounds -- from a childhood speech impediment I've never completely overcome
>-- I find the name of that character particularly challenging.)
>
>If only there were (more?) women like that in real life. (They don't call
>it "science fiction" for nothing!)
>
>Jodie Foster doesn't just play an atheist on film; she's apparently that way
>in reality. Link to:
>
>http://www.celebatheists.com/entries/jodie_foster.html
>
>
>Trans-millennially yours,
>
>Mark Plus, Expansionary
>"Working to make religion and death obsolescent in the 21st Century."
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