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I agree that the Rose round table piece was great and should be watched 
by anybody interested in where the research is going.  This highlights 
what I would call the life extension R&D of "normal" science.  For 
anyone who wants a really long life for themselves the progress in this 
field will seem agonizingly slow and perhaps not very adventurous.  It 
holds out no promise that the elixer of life will arrive any time soon. 
  However, the implications are extremely good for one of the 
assumptions of cryonics, that   extending life indefinitely is where 
our science-based culture is headed in the long run and we will surely 
get there, though these panelists don't dare say so in so many words 
because it still sounds kooky to most people.  Several commented that 
what they were into now would have sounded kooky a generation ago.
Another point for those on this list to keep in mind is that life 
extension and cryonic suspension are two quite different ideas although 
the second depends on a chain of logic that stretches back to the 
first.  The level of public interest in life extension, even by means 
of quackery, is extremely high, even though there is no realistic hope 
that it can be achieved within the life time of anyone now living as an 
adult. One panelist, probably Olshansky, said it was a 42 billion 
dollar industry [or maybe he said 4.2 billion, I'm not sure.]  It 
remains to me a bedevilling fact that the level of public interest [as 
distinct from awareness] in cryonics to so pitiably low despite the 
fact that this is the only hope for most of those now living to benefit 
 from what the normal science of longevity will eventually and surely 
provide.

Ronald Havelock, Ph.D, O.D.
CI Science Advisor

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Message #29378
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Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 14:14:16 EDT
Subject: Re: Charlie Rose

I just watched this and it was excellent. Most of the important  
researchers
discuss the latest findings, resveretrol etc.

Alan

Message #29374
From: "Mark Plus"  <>
Subject: Charlie Rose show on longevity  science
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 19:41:27  -0700

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7067070349217621336








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