X-Message-Number: 20891 Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 12:59:02 -0800 (PST) From: Christine Gaspar <> Subject: Re: CryoNet #20872 - #20883 --0-1705500411-1042750742=:48856 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To Yvan, What exactly were you referring to with regards to religious rooted ideology? I did not understand that comment. I used space exploration as an example. I think I was making reference to for example popular media, such as science fiction literature where one imagines great visions of the future, often miscalculating how long it will take to develop such technology. I didn't mean that it couldn't be done, but as everyone seems to agree, the world is run by those with different agendas than ours. Politics, or the deteriorating educational infrastructure certainly does not promote scientific advance. I am not a scientist. I am a nurse. I am very interested in immortalism, cryonics etc, but as I have learned I am the exception in my community. Most people I have met are not interested in the slightest on these topics, and unfortuneately they are in the majority. Cryonics as a science will only advance with consistent pushing on our part, as certainly if some government ethics representatives have their way, all forms of science that do not conform with religious fundamentalists will be banned. Perhaps Canada is looking better and better as a safe haven for cryonicists. We have already demonstrated a growing infrastructure in Toronto, increasingly able to assist with cases. Perhaps Toronto will be the next Scottsdale. Christine Gaspar I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying. Woody Allen (1935 - ) --0-1705500411-1042750742=:48856 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=20891