X-Message-Number: 26873 Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 09:30:30 -0400 From: Thomas Donaldson <> Subject: my corrections were correct + comments Hi everyone! I went to the ANU library to photocopy relevant papers for PERIASTRON today, and also looked at the book reviews in NATURE. The reviewer was Tom Kirkwood, and the book is the one I gave in my correction message on 22 August, Msg# 26869. Despite what some people think (and perhaps many more think but aren't brave enough to publicly claim) I doubt very much that we'll get much lifespan increase near term. I say this by observing how fast medicine has progressed in the past and progresses now: slowly, very slowly. Even getting most doctors interested in therapies for aging rather than cancers and heart disease looks like a very slow process; and if someone comes up with a treatment which slows human aging, it could take a human lifespan for its effect to be generally accepted. Just not the best conditions for rapid increases in lifespan. I will add that cryonics, even though unpopular, doesn't suffer from the same problems that medicine suffers. Success of a method for prolonged suspended animation, or even successful preservation of brains, can be verified far more quickly than any antiaging treatment for humans, and research in vitrification is far enough along that we may work out preservation methods far sooner. Best wishes and long long life for all, Thomas Donaldson Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=26873