X-Message-Number: 5894 Newsgroups: uk.legal,sci.cryonics,sci.life-extension From: (Keith Henson) Subject: Re: Virtue of suffering Message-ID: <> References: <4h8v1b$> <4hf2sd$> Date: Wed, 6 Mar 1996 23:34:23 GMT Randy Smith () wrote: : (H Keith Henson) wrote: [snip] : >was highly influenced by the conceptional work on nanotechnology. I : >was one of the early reviewers of Eric Drexler's work. Even so, it : >took about 5 years before I found myself logically boxed in by being : >unable to find any arguments which would prevent nanotechnology from : >being developed. I also could not find any arguments which would : >preclude a rapidly frozen/stored at LN2 patient from being reviveable : >by advanced medician based on nanotechnology. Since I had no religious : >beliefs, cryonics seemed a reasonable proposal and I signed up. (There : >is a fairly well known book which details this road and a lot of other : >interesting or at least amusing events.) : What book? Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition, 1990, Ed Regis. I think there was a UK edition. (The chicken refered to was a whole bunch of them who were raised generation after generation at 2.5 g or higher in a centrifuge.) Keith Henson Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=5894