X-Message-Number: 25804 Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 15:15:22 -0500 (EST) From: Dan Hitt <> Subject: thanks for your work at the Colorado Festival Hi Kennita, Thanks very much for your work at the Colorado Festival. The "airhead dilettante" remark is a mistake (and i think that the maker will realize that, if he or she has a chance to reflect a little). It is a mistake because the implication would be that doing nothing is better. I would say that even if you failed, it's still the right thing to try to do something. (All this within reason, of course, but you bent over backwards to take into account the fears others had that you would project the wrong image of any particular organization, or set up some kind of reputation-damaging linkage.) But you succeeded: instead of a typical cryonics story, however positive, in which there's a mandatory paragraph explaining that "experts doubt it has a chance", there's a cryonics story with a paragraph pointing to the light. And all the personal contacs you made were an extra benefit, seeds sown, perhaps a few to sprout and bring forth. Further, you're setting an example for all of us here in the studio audience to do something if we get a chance. (But, i guess like Saul Kent, and Mike Darwin, and Prof Ettinger, and others, you went out and made a chance.) Thanks again. Copying to cryonet for general reference. dan Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=25804