X-Message-Number: 665 From: Subject: CRYONICS Date: Thu, 27 Feb 92 22:23:32 PST This is the most recent exchange in a long running thread on sci.med. I don't know if any of you would like to jump into this one . . . . The thread title is "Gordon Banks and cryonics." Keith Henson In article <> (H Keith Henson) writ es: > >PS, do either of you have strong feelings that humans will never/should >never try for the stars? I think it unlikely that humans will get to the stars in a "normal" way. That is, hopping in a space ship and going there. I think it not unlikely that our machine intelligences may arrive there someday. Biological units such as ourselves are not very well suited for space travel, and I think in a century or two, it will become obvious that those born here will stay here (or nearby). Perhaps the machines will take some frozen embryos along if there is a perceived need to have biological units on any newly discovered planets out around other stars. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gordon Banks N3JXP | "I have given you an argument; I am not obliged | to supply you with an understanding." -S.Johnson ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=665