Re: THC: Extropian Country -- Blueprint underconstruction...

Damien Broderick (damien@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au)
Wed, 18 Feb 1998 12:27:10 +0000


At 11:53 PM 2/17/98 +0100, Berrie wrote:

>Of course among the first businesses I would
>expect the Cryo-firms.....you can die in peace,
>and you can be freezed as perfect as possible,
>this alone could generate some money, together
>with the "low-budget" tourism actions.....
>Just imagine a tropical island

My first thought about this - as with James' useful report - is that I
wouldn't wish to pin all my hopes and investment on a tropical island in an
era when global warming (if it's a reality) threatens to submerge or
regularly inundate quite a few of them. How galling to be frozen and then
thawed by salt water...

Damien Broderick