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- From: dedmunds@selkirk.sfu.ca (Darran Edmundson)
- Subject: Re: What's the Deal?
- Message-ID: <dedmunds.722130170@sfu.ca>
- Sender: news@sfu.ca
- Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
- References: <92323.111631JPS127@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 23:42:50 GMT
- Lines: 34
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- <JPS127@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
-
- > I just don't get it, is this line a support group for you people? I'm gener-
- >ally very open minded but I just don't see how you people can fall for such a
- >pie in the sky idea. Honestly, I don't believe in cryonics and technology be
- >damned I don't think revival is possible.
-
- Do you think that revival is impossible (i.e. probability zero) or just highly
- unlikely? I think a "generally very open minded" person would be hesitant
- to suggest that the probability is identically zero. Thus, what do you
- have to lose? (What other plans did you have for your life insurance?)
-
- >Certainly efforts can be made to reduce the amount of freezing damage,
- >but as for storing, and I hate to be the first one to point this out to you, we
- >are highly ordered beings. Entropy always wins!
-
- Oh no, a lay physicist. They aren't going to freeze you indefinitely so
- liquid NO2 should be sufficient.
-
- >No technology will be able to
- >repare molecular structures.
-
- This is an open minded statement? I went to a seminar several weeks ago
- where an IBM researcher presented results showing the manipulation of
- individual atoms with a scanning tunnelling microscope.
-
- Who could possibly predict what is and isn't possible further
- down the road?
-
- --
-
- Darran Edmundson
- darran@chaos.phys.sfu.ca
-
-