X-Message-Number: 20944 Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 10:36:04 -0800 (PST) From: Russell Jefferson <> Subject: Re: news article on cryonics http://www.sunspot.net/news/sns-othernews-williams-lat,0,2003125.story?coll=bal-features-specials Great article! It had almost all the main ideas about cryonics, except it did not mention life insurance. I especially liked the ending: "Fans, however, are not allowed. Those who want to see Williams must wait for the comeback. They might take heart in the knowledge that coming back was a specialty of "The Kid." "He was always coming back," John Updike wrote in a famous 1965 tribute. "Back from Korea, back from a broken collarbone, a shattered elbow, a bruised heel, back from drastic bouts of flu and ptomaine poisoning. Hardly a season went by without some enfeebling mishap, yet he always came back, and always looked like himself."" //// Well, now on to more important matters: whether or not a nuclear-powered uploaded cloned copy of myself, when revived in the year 2545 AD, would actually be myself. I believe it would be, due to the quantum swing evidenced by the following logical equation: A * dy/dx = sin xy dy, where A = the hyperbolic value of pure thought in vacuum. Therefore, res ipsa geek, I will live forever. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=20944