X-Message-Number: 22431 References: <> Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 12:14:26 +0200 (CEST) Subject: Re: Need help finding Astrophysicist Sara Seager From: "D. den Otter" <> > Message #22428 > Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 16:27:03 -0700 > From: James Swayze <> > > A few months ago I watched and taped a show off of PBS called "Big > Ideas: Exploring the Cosmos" hosted by Ira Flatow. It was one in a > series apparently though I never saw the others. They were simply > interviews with extra bright people, among them Freeman Dyson, that had > done extraordinary things in their fields and this show was mostly about > cosmology. What attracted my attention most was that at the end of one > young lady's interview the interviewer couched his last question with, > "Now I know this is a little bit 'out there' but I know you have unusual > plans for your body when you die, right?". She answered affirmatvely and > went on to describe how she wishes to be cryogenically preserved at > death and then "ejected into space" so to travel toward a system "with a > known Earth like planet" likely to be inhabited by extraterrestrials > that might some day discover her and revive her from stasis. She also > said that if she is not discovered or misses the target she won't mind > returning to our origins, becoming star stuff. > > She is rather bright and so I think we should contact her if possible > and tell her she needn't take the rocket ride, we'll see that she is > revived right here on Earth and then one day she can take the journey > consciously, if such space travel ever becomes possible. Of course such > travel may yet again require suspended animation but at least she can do > so with a much greater certainty of success in a time when such journeys > may well be common place. > > Her name is Sara Seager and she's an Astrophysicist. I think she is > faculty at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University but > I could not find her when I searched there. Any help finding her would > be appreciated. From: http://www.ciw.edu/seager/ Sara Seager Carnegie Institution of Washington, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, 5241 Broad Branch Rd. NW Washington, D.C. 20015 Tel. 202-478-8868, Fax 202-478-8821 E-mail: See also: http://www.ciw.edu/seager/travel.html [Travel and Visitor Schedule for Sara Seager] http://www.thirteen.org/bigideas/seager.html [Bio, photo, Big Ideas video] The Google is mighty. Bow down. > Admittedly I am at a bit of a loss to understand how she can have an > open mind enough to consider cryonics possible enough for an advanced > alien race to revive her and yet not, given her obvious advanced > learning and high intellect, be able to see that our own technology > would far surpass the level needed for revivification by the time she > would be but a marginal distance away from or own solar system by > today's space technology. I'm sure given the chance she would realize > this. Actually, I'm pretty sure she isn't really serious about this. It's just a romantic idea, a fantasy of sorts (the comment about "becoming star stuff" is quite telling, IMO); actual, real-life cryonics would probably freak her out. Also, how could she possibly *not* know about this option after months of media hype regarding the Ted "splendid popsicle" Williams thing? > I'd be happy to gently nudge her toward realizing this. Well, it never hurts to try, but I wouldn't get my hopes up if I were you. --- Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=22431