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From: "John de Rivaz" <>
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Subject: Re: Nanotechnology, statistics and advertising
Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2008 10:30:20 +0100

With regards to recent worries about nanotechnology:

When 40-year-old materials chemist Angela Belcher was a child, she wanted to
be an inventor. "I would try to build things out of scrap material that we
had in the garage," she says. To her disappointment, everything she made had
already been invented. Then, in college, she "fell in love with large
molecules" and found a whole new way to build things.

Although Belcher was interested in DNA, the molecules she most loved were
proteins. She wrote her doctoral thesis on how aba lone grow their rough
outer shells and pearl-like inner shells, the main difference between the
two being a simple shift in protein sequences. "It's pretty amazing," she
says. "If organisms like abalone have precise control at a genetic level, I
realized it might be possible to program an organ ism to grow other kinds of
material. Why not use genetic information to build a protein that can grow a
semiconductor?"

more on



http://discovermagazine.com:80/2008/jun/30-3-people-who-are-pushing-the-edge-of-science

re wars vs terrorism deaths
> One source is Copenhagen Consensus,
> another is a recent "Democracy Now!" podcast/broadcast.
web links may help the original enquirer.

and as far as advertising in medical journals...

 I would have thought that it would be impossible to get the advertisements
accepted. Also general practitioners are so overworked they would not take
the time to evaluate cryonics properly, and would reject it just to save
time. Drug companies have to hold all expenses paid "jollys" in exotic
locations to get doctors to listen to information about their latest
products. The only way to make doctors listen would be to do the same, and
maybe even pay them to attend and offer free accommodation for their 
families
to have a holiday whilst the doctor is attending lectures. This is
financially impossible for a movement our size.

Even if it could be done, and there are a few cryonics literate doctors,
they may well have exactly the same problems we have in convincing potential
patients and their families.

-- 
Sincerely, John de Rivaz:  http://John.deRivaz.com for websites including
Cryonics Europe, Longevity Report, The Venturists, Porthtowan, Alec Harley
Reeves - inventor, Arthur Bowker - potter, de Rivaz genealogy,  Nomad .. and
more

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