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From: "John de Rivaz" <>
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Subject: Re: [LongevityReport] "Nano-nonsense: 25 years of charlatanry...
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 23:17:31 +0100

The world's first car appeared around 1800. A replica built a few years ago 
was virtually impossible to control, so articles could have appeared for 
nearly 100 years suggesting that "horseless carriages" were an idea that 
would never bear fruit.

http://www.h2-hydro-gen.com/page19.html

Steam engines appeared two millenia ago - Hero's Engine. Philosophers no 
doubt made similar remarks about their lack of torque and therefore 
practicability. As far as I know no one tried to make a car using one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero_of_Alexandria

Electricity has been known from antiquity, and considered useless for 
thousands of years. Only relatively recently (in terms of millenia) has it 
become so useful. Until it became useful, similar remarks would have been 
made.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity

The legend of Aladdin's Lamp has been regarded as a fable for millenia. Now 
there is one in almost every home. (A computer screen is the lamp, rubbing 
it is typing on the keyboard, and the wishes limit is the credit card 
limit.)

Guess what, the Internet uses electricty (electric current rather than 
static electricity) much of which is generated by steam turbines (of 
different design to Hero's), and goods bought on eBay are brought to your 
door by "horseless carriages" (still powered by a series of explosions, but 
not from hydrogen gas).

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: MARK PLUS
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Sent: Monday, August 30, 2010 3:41 PM
Subject: [LongevityReport] "Nano-nonsense: 25 years of charlatanry"



As I've suspected, cryonics organizations might have made an error a
generation ago by identifying revival scenarios too closely to certain
technological speculations which haven't born fruit:



http://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2010/08/24/nano-nonsense-25-years-of-charlatanry/

-- 
Mark Plus
Life is short: Freeze hard!

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