Re: interesting science stuff (was: Re: Obituary for Mike Lorrey)

From: Brett Paatsch (bpaatsch@bigpond.net.au)
Date: Thu Aug 14 2003 - 01:56:37 MDT

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    Damien Broderick <damienb@unimelb.edu.au> writes:
    To: <extropians@extropy.org>
    Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 4:50 PM
    Subject: interesting science stuff (was: Re: Obituary for Mike Lorrey)

    > At 12:55 AM 8/14/03 -0400, the Spud feller wrote:
    >
    > >for months, all I posted was interesting science stuff,
    > >technology; which I would have hoped to be non-ideological,
    non-polemical.
    > >Nobody seems interested.
    >
    > Such posts and urls are always very welcome, Mitch, and I'm sure are read
    > and saved by plenty of us. Few have enough deep knowledge to add anything
    > useful, though; hence, I think, the silence... not a matter of lack of
    > interest.
    >
    > Keep 'em coming, pal!

    I strongly second this, though I know how you feel, I read, save
    or mentally note far more of the tech posts than I comment on. Also
    because I don't read via the Javien BBS, my browsings don't show
    up on the counter, so if your tempted like me to take that as some
    gauge of interest, be aware that it is not picking up all browsings.

    BTW: I posted an article on Stem Cell recently, that imo (and I do
    feel pretty well placed to comment on the political aspects in this
    field) is something of a real political or social watershed. But the
    breakthrough is not in the science per se, its in the acceleration
    past the bottleneck that had formed in stem cell science politics
    and social policy. My point is that sometimes the topics are of
    such that the significance is not always obvious even to generally
    bright folk.

    In my case I also tend to post the occasionally rough and sloppy
    post just to keep in contact, I'm not always on my best behaviour,
    and that probably influences my credibility for other busy folks
    too.

    Regards,
    Brett



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