X-Message-Number: 31563
From: Mark Plus <>
Subject: Re: Is this a circular argument
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 08:22:57 -0700

In Cryonet #31561, Mathew Sullivan writes:


>I'm a cryonicist because I want to live long enough to pursue my true career 
interest in being an astronaut, and have had that interest since the age of 
five.


Nobody has left low Earth orbit since December 1972, almost 40 years ago. I have
trouble seeing any plausible future where manned space travel resumes, mainly 
because of the tightening thermodynamic noose on humanity as the oil supplies 
decline and civilization has to power down.

Refer to:

Has Humanity Already Shot Their (Space) Bolt
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/oped-03zs.html


"Around 2010 the world will be at a new orbit in history. . .  Life expectancy 
will be indefinite. Disease and disability will nonexist. Death will be rare and
accidental -- but not permanent. We will continuously jettison our obsolescence
and grow younger." F.M. Esfandiary, "Up-Wing Priorities" (1981).
http://www.box.net/shared/static/ay9lub60ha.pdf
http://www.scribd.com/doc/10948503/Up-Wing-Priorities


Mark Plus



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