X-Message-Number: 14628 From: Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 18:26:51 EDT Subject: Re: CryoNet #14619 - #14623 In a message dated 10/6/2000 2:06:17 AM Pacific Daylight Time, writes: << People will be needed for practical tasks, like exploring the Galaxy. Once the expense of getting into orbit is reduced the race will be on. Evidence suggests that we will be competing with alien civilizations. >> Well, I would like to see this 'evidence' which suggests that we will be competing with alien civilizations, certainly. Not that I disbelieve a potential exists for this to be a possibility, especially with aliens are anything like we are or have a history of conflicts similar to ours. There is nothing in my scope of knowledge to suggest either way, competition or cooperation... though for the later, cooperation is an illusion in politics, or better said it is a temporary solution to a mutual end being sought by two or more participants. I certainly would like to expand my own life span, but not for the same reasons being proclaimed here by other writers of interest in cryonics. I once thought that we'd all be able to get along, but my experiences both personal and through my reading of history have proven otherwise. My interest is only to see just what would be going on in the future and possibly to gain a small satisfaction of defeating nature or staving off death for a thousand years or longer, still a small feat considering that if energy only transforms, then the energy of the mind must continue after death anyway. Time, space etc. All .... Ah, I'll write more later. Bye for now. Tom Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=14628