X-Message-Number: 22428 Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 16:27:03 -0700 From: James Swayze <> Subject: Need help finding Astrophysicist Sara Seager A few months ago I watched and taped a show off of PBS called "Big Ideas: Exploring the Cosmos" hosted by Ira Flatow. It was one in a series apparently though I never saw the others. They were simply interviews with extra bright people, among them Freeman Dyson, that had done extraordinary things in their fields and this show was mostly about cosmology. What attracted my attention most was that at the end of one young lady's interview the interviewer couched his last question with, "Now I know this is a little bit 'out there' but I know you have unusual plans for your body when you die, right?". She answered affirmatvely and went on to describe how she wishes to be cryogenically preserved at death and then "ejected into space" so to travel toward a system "with a known Earth like planet" likely to be inhabited by extraterrestrials that might some day discover her and revive her from stasis. She also said that if she is not discovered or misses the target she won't mind returning to our origins, becoming star stuff. She is rather bright and so I think we should contact her if possible and tell her she needn't take the rocket ride, we'll see that she is revived right here on Earth and then one day she can take the journey consciously, if such space travel ever becomes possible. Of course such travel may yet again require suspended animation but at least she can do so with a much greater certainty of success in a time when such journeys may well be common place. Her name is Sara Seager and she's an Astrophysicist. I think she is faculty at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University but I could not find her when I searched there. Any help finding her would be appreciated. Admittedly I am at a bit of a loss to understand how she can have an open mind enough to consider cryonics possible enough for an advanced alien race to revive her and yet not, given her obvious advanced learning and high intellect, be able to see that our own technology would far surpass the level needed for revivification by the time she would be but a marginal distance away from or own solar system by today's space technology. I'm sure given the chance she would realize this. I'd be happy to gently nudge her toward realizing this. James -- Cryonics Institute of Michigan Member! The Immortalist Society Member! The Society for Venturism Member! MY WEBSITE: http://www.geocities.com/~davidpascal/swayze/ Signature Memetic Virus--The worst enemy of those who now or will need medical care is the uninformed politician or moral fanatic who proscribe what doctors are allowed to prescribe and research, with the consent of their patients. Those who understand this are strongly encouraged to modify this to fit their personality, and add this to their signature file, and organize to recover our freedom from Big Brother. For those who wait until they are sick, it will be too late. Those who suffer from diseases which might have been cured by advanced medical research or schedule 1 drugs banned by Big Brother, have the right to hold accountable those who sat on their hands or worse, deferred their responsibility for personal and humanity's survival to unseen agents, while they remained ill and dying. Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=22428