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From: "Technotranscendence" <>
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Subject: Re: Williams effects
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 06:11:47 -0400

On Tuesday, July 09, 2002 5:00 AM Robert Ettinger 
wrote:
> Judging by the journalists' reports, Alcor does indeed have Ted
Williams.
> Will this help us much? If I had to guess, I would say just a little.
Not
> much, partly because of the family squabble angle and possible
pecuniary
> motives, but mostly just because Williams is only a sports figure
whose
> opinion on this subject is unlikely to carry any weight with many
people. A
> little, because it will direct some extra attention toward us for a
bit, and
> some of that will result in memberships.

The thing is to develop strategies now to make it help.  For instance,
it could be a good time to clear up, for most people, how hard it is to
get someone cryopreserved -- i.e., that it's unlikely Williams' son did
all this after his father was dead and that his father probably signed
on long ago.

It's also a time to get and keep press contacts.  Some of you -- Robert
Ettinger, Mike Darwin, Charles Platt, etc. -- should be _the_ people the
Media run to when they have an issue like this.  (E.g., when they want
an expert on foreign policy, they usually wheel in Henry Kissinger, they
don't just randomly call all the foreign policy think tanks.  I'm not
praising this, just stating how the Media work.)

Cheers!

Dan
http://uweb.superlink.net/neptune/

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