X-Message-Number: 16906
From: "john grigg" <>
Subject: questions about Alaska
Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2001 02:56:30 

Steve Harris wrote:
Say, John, perhaps you could comment on cryonic suspension from Anchorage? 
Have you spent a winter in Fairbanks or places north, yet? I'm a cheechako 
who can hardly tell an ulu from an oosa, but I thought your state was the 
most gorgeous thing I'd ever seen. Sort of a 1960's hunting-lodge 
libertarian outlook there, also, which reminded me of my lost boyhood.
(end)

Sure Steve, now are you talking about cryonic suspension by simply walking 
outside naked on a cold winter day? ;)  Seriously, I am still working on 
getting signed up, but modern air travel makes Alcor not quite so far away.

Of course, actually moving there or to the upcoming Ventureville community 
would be the best option if I want a fairly intact brain for future 
scientists to reassemble.

I have only summered in Fairbanks.  It gets extremely hot there in the 
summer(a blistering ninety degrees fahrenheit sometimes! lol) which is hard 
for someone from Anchorage to take.  The winters there are a freezing 
nightmare I would not want to endure.  I have had friends attend the 
University of Alaska Fairbanks(best school in Alaska, Anchorage folks hate 
that) who said they thought the cold and wind-chill would overtake them 
before they could walk from one end of the campus to the other!  They were 
also from Anchorage which is on the southern coast and surrounded by 
mountains.  I have been to Nome during the winter but that is a fun little 
town.

I find your comment about "Sort of a 1960's hunting-lodge libertarian 
outlook there" somewhat amusing.  We are a very Republican state(with a 
fairly visible Libertarian contingent)with a rather top-heavy state 
government which sticks its nose everywhere.  We do strongly dislike 
interference from the federal gov't in such areas as oil development, 
production and sales.  The past decade saw a lot of litigation between a 
hardnosed governor(Wally Hickel!) and the money hungry oil companies which 
he felt had not paid their fair share of royalties.  Wally did get some 
money out of them.

Well, if you are looking to refind your boyhood then Alaska might be a good 
place to live.  When were you up here?

best wishes,

John
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