X-Message-Number: 30632
From: David Stodolsky <>
Subject: Re: Clark dead...unfrozen...a PR coup missed, a visionary lac...
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:07:10 +0100
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On 19 Mar 2008, at 16:30,  wrote:

> Especially annoying was that I read "Clarke had some of his DNA  
> sent  into
> space."  So what?  Is it a failure of imagination, as Robert   
> Ettinger points
> out?  Or, is it possibly a failure in the way that cryonics  is  
> generally
> presented?
>
> It is an axiom in the marketing business  that "Failure to hit the  
> target
> is...never the fault of the target."
>

The diagnosis is correct, but

> In closing, we as a (mostly virtual) community need to continue to  
> work on
> getting a highly influential thought leader to publicly sign up and  
> promote the
> idea of cryonics.

the solution is the same old 'same old' that has been tried again and  
again and hasn't worked. And which Badger's results show will never  
work effectively.

The cryonics community continues to be the drunk searching under the  
lamp post for his key, even though he knows he dropped it in the  
shadows. Unfortunately, where that light of individualism doesn't  
reach is where the solution lies. That's what the science says and the  
cryonics community, which is committed to the science of cryobiology  
and even science fiction, doesn't seem to have the ability to apply  
even the simplest social science. Until that time, we will continue to  
see men like Clark perish needlessly.


dss


PS: A couple of recent statistics from Denmark:
:45% of adults have not attended church once in the last year  
(membership in the Danish State Church is about 83%)
:37% of adults believe in ghosts or spirits


David Stodolsky    Skype: davidstodolsky

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