X-Message-Number: 19091 From: "Mark Plus" <> Subject: Science's cultural values Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 20:44:23 -0700 Rudi quotes from the Scientific American Webpage as saying: >IMMORTALITY Eliminating all the aging-related11 causes of death presently written on death certificates would still not make humans immortal.12 Accidents, homicides, suicide and the biological processes of aging would continue to take their toll. The prospect of humans living forever is as unlikely today as it has always been, and discussions of such an impossible scenario have no place in a scientific discourse. A few years ago I noticed that scientists were publishing peer-reviewed articles about making Mars habitable, building time machines and even creating new universes (talk about "playing god"!). In light of these apparently respectable speculations, what basis does SciAm's thought police have for dismissing immortality as an "impossible scenario"? Mark Plus _________________________________________________________________ Join the world s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=19091