X-Message-Number: 32260
From: Mark Plus <>
Subject: Re: Rebranding cryonics
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2009 07:06:31 -0800

In Cryonet #32258, Finance Department writes:

>Actually, jetpacks work to some extent:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_pack

>Flying cars do too:  http://www.moller.com/


But these innovations wouldn't work in practice because of human factors, like 
intoxicated operators. We have plenty of problems now with impaired people 
driving automobiles. Terrorists could also load up a flying car with explosives 
and use it as the poor man's assassin drone. 


>Cryonics, unfortunately, has yet to be shown to work at all. It is a surprise 
to me if it is anywhere on the futurology scale.  Someone was too generous in 
assessing it.  On a scale of 0 to 1000 it must occupy the position of 0. or 
perhaps as a notation in the margin.


We don't know if a "singularity" can happen either, but that hasn't stopped Ray 
Kurzweil and some of his wealthy fans from starting a "university" to promote 
the idea.


I continue to wonder about the state of improgression in cryonics, given all the
money some individuals have "invested" into it over the past 30 years, as well 
as its potentially solid financial future. Alcor, in particular, has a 
foreseeable income of ~ $100 million heading its way in the next few decades, 
assuming its current membership numbers and funding levels. Yet it doesn't seem 
to have much to show for the multiple millions of dollars it has taken in since 
I became a member in 1990. Alcor's Patient Care Trust, for example, apparently 
has only about $3 million in it. Some people have more than that in their 
retirement accounts.

Mark Plus


 		 	   		  
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