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From: "Chris Manning" <>
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Subject: Re: Cryonics and life extension progress, STILL a worthwihile...
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 11:28:37 +1000

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> Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 08:17:13 EDT
> Subject: Cryonics and life extension progress, STILL a worthwihile top...

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> Only the future will tell if the above  paragraph looks as silly as the
> "immanent breakthroughs  around the corner"  verbiage on the 1970s 
> cryonics video.
> Or makes the naysayers look as silly  as the experts quoting "man will 
> never
> fly heavier than air machines"  observations still extant in the early 
> 1900s,
> (some of them, I understand, made  concurrently while the Wrights and 
> others
> were actually doing exactly what the  experts said could never be done.)

Another example:

I think it was in 1958 that the British Astronomer Royal described space 
travel as 'utter bilge'. (If that year is correct then like the claim about 
flying, the allegedly impossible had already been achieved.) I think he also 
said it belonged on the back of cereal packets.

>
> So, may I respectfully suggest we the faithless "keep the faith" 
> (defining
> faith here not as belief without evidence, but instead as it's other
> definition of "maintaining an optimistic, upbeat, attitude.")
>
> Let's find a way to prevail, and let's be happy while were  here.
>
> Rudi

I hear and agree with what you say. 

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