X-Message-Number: 3551
Date: 30 Dec 94 15:32:31 EST
From: yvan Bozzonetti <>
Subject: CRYONICS : Christmas 666


If you are a good christian, you know 666 is the number of the antechrist. 
For you, you must read it  upside down : 999. Now, what is the largest 
number you can make with three 9 ? That woul define at least an idea of 
your christian soul longevity. You can start with : 9 + 9 + 9 = 27, then 
turn to 9 x 9 x 9 = 729. Why not try 9 ^99 = 2.9512665 x 10^94 that looks 
very big even if you count the age of the universe in seconds : 3 x 10^17 
s.

	In fact it is nearly nothing : A far bigger number is given by : 
9^(9^9) = 9^387420489. If you want to write down that number without power, 
you'll need, with five digits per inch, a paper strip 11 000 miles long ! 
This is not the infinity nor the eternity yet... If soul is immortal, it 
must work at these scales, then what is 100 or even 10 000 years, the 
cryonics objective, when put against these numbers ?  So christian soul is 
a far better technology than cryonics, there is neverthless a drawback : 
That must become a reality after the end of times, that is after 666.

	Using the same process as before, the largest number produced with 
three 6 is 6^(6^6) = 10^36605 approximatively. Even counted in Planck's 
time unit, near 10^-43 second, that make a very long period to wait. What 
to conclude ? First eternity is far bigger than One billion of billions of 
billions of ... anything you can spell out in your life time in this way. 
Second, the antechrist is not for tomorow, that let us plenty of time to 
play with cryonics without risk about missing the end of time. 3rd, that 
has nothing to do with cryonics : Soul has nothing to do with it anymore, 
that message is only intended to encumber Cryonet and allow some exercise 
of the D key.

Y.B.

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