X-Message-Number: 19434 From: "Technotranscendence" <> References: <> 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/ Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=19434