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From: Kennita Watson <>
Subject: Un Person's Video
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 03:55:37 -0800

Flavonoid wrote:

> Very well done - we need more of that sort of thing.  Perhaps  
> Kennita would
> want to use it in her presentations?

I was thinking I may want to have the video running in
the corner on continuous loop.

There may be trouble, though -- I may be in a room where
broadband doesn't work.  I tried downloading the file so
I could run it without an Internet connection, but it
comes out with ugly color distortions/brushstroke patterns
on my PowerBook G4 running Mac OS 10.4.7 and Google Video
Player 2.0.0.060608.

Does anybody else have this problem?  In any case, I may
ask Un Person for a version in plain old avi so I can
play it using something other than Google Video Player.
I may be asking people for other videos as well.  Google
Video doesn't have a Download button on all videos, and
YouTube doesn't allow download at all :-( .

> As to your reaction to Stodolsky's comment, I think you should take  
> it more
> beneficially.  Cryonicists will still be the "few people" for a  
> very long
> time, and a significant percent of the individuals currently in that
> population would indeed know the fine distinction.  More new people  
> than
> you think might just shake their heads and shut it off, seeing a  
> clearly
> inappropriate usage of a scientific term.

I hope reference to "supercooling" is removed.  I don't
want people who see the video going out and using the term.
If I noticed it coming across the screen, I'd probably
correct it, because I think that it's valuable to point
out to people that what we want to do (vitrification) is
most decidedly *not* supercooling.  A supercooled liquid
freezes at the slightest provocation, whereas a liquid
cooled with cryoprotectant shouldn't ever freeze -- it
should vitrify or "glassify".  I don't want people who
see my presentations to go out with the word "supercooled"
in their heads, because even if they don't know what it
means, someone they talk to might.  This is important in
the places I'm likely to show the video -- FDGD is right
near the University of Colorado at Boulder, and the
science fiction conventions I attend are full of geeks
(my favorite kind of people) who may be more likely to
recognize a scientific term than a sports team.

Live long and prosper,
Kennita
--
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery;
none but ourselves can free our minds.
           -- Bob Marley, "Redemption Song"

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