In a message dated 11/19/98 10:20:49 AM Central Standard Time, asa@nada.kth.se writes:
>
> At Extro3 Eric Drexler held a speech where he discussed how to be
> "cautious and conservative". He showed that cryonics was the cautious
> and conservative thing to do, and that much of nanotechnology is
> conservative. So maybe this is the real explanation: this list is
> filled with cautious and conservative people, while the incautious
> radicals are out there... :-)
>
FWIW
This reminds me of something one of the politicians is purported to have said once....Jack Kemp I think.
He claimed to be a dove....a heavily armed dove.
EvMick.