X-Message-Number: 11476 From: Thomas Donaldson <> Subject: technical dictionaries, and more on the simple effects of long life Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 23:35:12 +1000 (EST) Hi everyone! To Olaf Henny: Have you tried going to a university library (other libraries would have to be very good to have such things) and getting a TECHNICAL dictionary of German? If you know German in the first place, the problem is just that of finding out the corresponding words... which I'd hardly expect to be in normal German-English dictionaries. But there are technical dictionaries too; after all, you're hardly the first person who has wanted to translate technical material. And to others: As my posting to this Cryonet suggests, even the simple provision of greatly extended lifespans is likely to change those who receive it, usually in very positive ways. If you think your lifespan will be short, you are highly unlikely to be very patient with other people, or anything else, for that matter. And without that patience, you may well do things dangerous to yourself and others, to try to hurry something which perhaps cannot be hurried. In my reading to put together the next issue of PERIASTRON, I found an article in GERONTOLOGY which adds to the previous one I discussed. Its author looked at risk-taking among young and old people. It turned out that both young and old (if the old people were physically healthy --- an important distinction, since many now are not!) behave similarly in response to risks. They will think over doing things which look risky, with statistically very similar behavior. (Some people temperamentally search out risks, others avoid them, but this behavior is UNrelated to their age). Best and long long life to all, Thomas Donaldson Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=11476