Quote from Extropic Art website;
>. In the ensuing months, hundreds of creative thinkers signed the
>Manifesto, and others began calling themselves Extropic Artists. In
>October of 1997, the Manifesto was sent into space on board the Cassini
>Huygens spacecraft. It is the first writings of transhumanity to leave the
>earth and travel through the Asteroid Belt to Saturn. By this, the meme
>"We are transhumans . . ."
>has spread far beyond Earth, out into the Solar System.
http://www.extropic-art.com/director.htm
Wow. I had no idea of this.
What a beautifully profound expression of our ideals. Most excellent.
James...
"If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you ought to go back home and
crawl under your bed. It's not safe out here. It's wondrous, with treasures
to satiate desires both subtle and gross. But it's not for the timid."
-Q, Star Trek:TNG episode 'Q Who'
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