X-Message-Number: 5894
Newsgroups: uk.legal,sci.cryonics,sci.life-extension
From:  (Keith Henson)
Subject: Re: Virtue of suffering
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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


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