X-Message-Number: 17467
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2001 02:55:19 -0700
Subject: Will the future give a damn?
From: "Bobby June  ::..::..::  9v" <>

Hi Charles.  Nice to talk to you again.  And I still have what you sent me
on my hard drive and am waiting for a good summertime weekend to dip in.

I'm happy that your case and mine would be no more than equally as good,
because that tells me my story stands a fifty-fifty chance for success, even
if you were right.  That is a damn good enough reason and odds to huck 50-70
grand at a possibility of a "good" future.

And we might seem ant like, but I don't think that we'll come to that late
in the game.  We might be headed quickly for that when we awake, so we might
come to with only a couple of months to acclimate and off we go!  Strap on
the memory augment-o-mometer and process-o-matic belt and we in.

And your question regarding our care for ants now and that would be a "yes."
If we knew that ants were, in fact, freezing themselves by climbing into our
freezers to attempt a later revival and I possessed the ability to bring
them back, I would do so.  I know you think I'm bs'ing myself.  See, the
reason I say so is because they would be altered in the process to
understand our needs and us as well.  So if they came back, they would be
able to assume a role that we as huge beings would need.  From cleaning
crevice' to who knows what.  Now I realize that this overlaps nanojobs a
bit, but so does the ant to human differential.  So if I let the huge gap in
ant/human relations  sit, you can let this sit and they will equalize.

Not to mention, it is my feeling that we will be needing brains and brawn of
all sorts to help with the saving of our Galaxy from the black hole they
just found in the center and the Universe from doing whatever the hell it's
doing.  This might require mass entity creation way beyond what any
Greenpeace population protagonist would ever be able to muster.  It's like,
upload, alter slightly and then spit out a new one kinda scenario.  We kinda
need to do that a little of that now so we can get a few more great
scientists working even harder on the good stuff.

So I think that life, to a certain level, will be of value and that we
probably won't be so far from our caregivers as ants to us.  Maybe a closer
jump would be a bunch of cats climbing in the icebox when death is near
would be a tighter fit to our debate.  And don't forget, it's not like *all*
of the damn felines are stiff as boards.  Just a few thousand or so.  Would
be a fun project and they could walk around holding tea cups and chatting
about politics.

And of course, the easier the revival, the better our chances for not
irritating our future friends into a lull of boredom and indifference.  I
totally agree.  21 CM is the bomb.  Keep it up you guys!

And don't forget.  We kinda know our past and are kinda direct descendents
of beings lower than us.  The tree is big.  But the future boys, girls and
other will be directly from us because we are the ones that turned on the
switch and they would be damn guilty for not bring
ol'great-great-great-great grandma back, even if not directly related.  That
is of course unless they remove good'ol guilt from existence.

Bobby June
Node 198.0091.19729.04 of the galactic supernet

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