X-Message-Number: 17100 Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 20:41:35 -0400 Subject: Why? From: Thomas R Mazanec <> There are thousands of millions of people in the world. Hundreds of millions of them live in the "developed regions". Millions of these are in the upper 1 percentile of IQ. Thousands of people, at most, have signed up for cryonics. Why do 99.9% of the smart, educated, wealthy population have nothing to do with cryonics? They know of it...for a third of a century cryonics has been popularized...probably as many people have heard of it as have heard of flying saucers. Yet you can't get more than a minimum of people to sign up. Diagnose what is wrong, then prescribe how to cure this. Otherwise, at best you'll be a small fraction of a percent of the world, with cash flow problems constantly hanging like a sword over the heads of the cryonics companies. At worst, some disaster (earthquake, whatever) will defrost a major cryonics company's "cryonauts" and the movement will suffer a fatal blow. or Tom Mazanec to humans Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=17100