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

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