X-Message-Number: 21357 From: "John de Rivaz" <> Subject: New Scientist hold another "wierd competition". Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 13:01:56 -0000 New Scientist hold another "weird competition". New Scientist magazine have announced another weird competition. This time the winner will have their genome sequenced. The competition opens on 15 March, when details can be found in the magazine or on http://www.newscientist.com/competition Previous contests have concerned the invention of a device to walk on water, and of course cryonics. The other competitions don't seem to have produced anything like as much news coverage as the cryonics one in September 2002. But unfortunately this resulted in the winner, Helen Tibble from Congleton, Cheshire, choosing the alternative prize of a holiday in Hawaii. Nevertheless nearly 30% of entrants would have chosen cryonics. The number of voters in a New Scientist poll timed to run with the competition produced a similar ratio. There were three times the number of voters as entrants in the competition, although it is likely that everyone who went in for the competition also did the poll. Translated over the population of the UK this suggests about 17 million UK citizens would opt for cryonics if the government offered it on the National Health, ie free at the point of use but paid for by general taxation. -- Sincerely, John de Rivaz: http://John.deRivaz.com for websites including Cryonics Europe, Longevity Report, The Venturists, Porthtowan, Alec Harley Reeves - inventor, Arthur Bowker - potter, de Rivaz genealogy, Nomad .. and more Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=21357