From: spike66 (spike66@attbi.com)
Date: Mon Mar 17 2003 - 21:28:54 MST
Hal Finney wrote:
>
> ... "Ted's in there, I think. Ted. In a tank."
My wife's family has taken to referring to death as
"hanging upside down with Ted."
> Also, Michael Shermer:"Even if they find a way to repair the cellular
> damage, no one has any clue how to restart the motor, other than
> a Frankensteinian thing where you just electrocute it and see what
> happens."
Hey it worked for Dr. Frankenstein. Had it not been for
tragically incompetent help, the term "muaahahahahaaaaa"
would carry a far different meaning today. Consider
also that he was an employer of the disadvantaged many
years before there were any tax advantages for doing so.
> Shermer goes on more favorably: "Seems to me that
> Alcor's clients are simply operating on the theory that they have nothing
> to lose...
Until we develop the technology to take our money
with us to the next world, I still don't see what
we have to lose.
> They're buying a $120,000 lottery ticket."
...For free. You can't spend it in the grave.
After talking to a lot of people about life extension,
and occasionally about cryonics, I see a disturbing
pattern. Few are interested in either, but not
because they believe methods will not work, but
rather because they generally aren't having enough *fun*.
Before the singularity, we may find that lack of fun
slays more proles than drugs, accidents, disease,
war, or overeating. spike
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