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