X-Message-Number: 20541 Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 11:45:55 -0800 From: "John Grigg" <> Subject: An internet/cable channel or infomercial to present our ideas? Yvan wrote: Want to be constructive? Make an educational-science-technical TV channel on Internet. Forget old 60's law. May be in one or two centuries that will contribute to a better life. On the short time frame we are glued to the current state of the world where things advance with nukes. (end) I really like the idea of a transhumanist/cryonicist educational site either on the internet or on cable. I realize an endeavor like this would take serious funding, but considering some very expensive projects which are in the making such as Timeship, perhaps the time has come for this one. Another possibility would be to create an infomercial and run it late at night and in the early morning. The Alcor Adventure or something produced just for this project could be used. I realize some people might cringe at the use of infomercials, but they do get the word out. We would need a presentation which shows the proper respect for the subject and not something done with the usual bombastic hucksterism used to sell egg cookers and the incredible array of free accessories one gets with the order! I think a thirty minute infomerical presentation could get some people to seriously consider cryonics who otherwise would be unaffected by short news stories about us done by the mass media. And it could cause many others to realize we are to be taken seriously because we do have a leg to scientific/philosophical leg to stand on. But again I realize it would take a large sum of money to do. Yvan, if it were my educational cable channel I would give you a weekly show to "Harlan Ellison style" rant about whatever you felt like. Or I might make you part of a talking heads panel composed of you, Mike Darwin and Tryvge Bauge! : ) best wishes, John _____________________________________________________________ Get 25MB, POP3, Spam Filtering with LYCOS MAIL PLUS for $19.95/year. http://login.mail.lycos.com/brandPage.shtml?pageId=plus&ref=lmtplus Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=20541