X-Message-Number: 19442 From: Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 15:31:38 EDT Subject: Re: Scott Badger's 50 yrs I think that response is fine, especially put to anyone over 50 years of age. We don't need to sell immortality, just life extension, even though many of us realize that if we can extend by 50, we can probably go on and on beyond that. I think it is good to stay relatively conservative, i.e. within the realm of normal conventional thought, when advocating cryonics because if we do that we are more likely to get some aging researchers [take it any way you want] on our side. The Hayflick limit and the absence of any well-documented lives lived beyond 120 or so definitely suggests a barrier of some kind, even if some of us think it will eventually be overcome. The point is, this is an assumption we don't have to make to realize the benefits of cryonic suspension. We have enough barriers to overcome regarding resuscitation without getting into this one. Ron Havelock, CI Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=19442