X-Message-Number: 4806
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1995 15:32:56 -0400 (EDT)
From: Charles Platt <>
Subject: Movies

Steve's list of cryonics-related movies is interesting and helpful, but
sometimes I feel a NON-cryonics-related movie can tell us more about what
we're doing. 

"Dumb and Dumber," for instance. No, I'm not being frivolous. Let me 
paraphrase one key scene:

He: "Can you tell me if there's any chance at all of you being my 
girlfriend? Like, I mean--one chance in a hundred?"

She: [dismissively] "Sorry, no. It's more like one in a million."

He: [excitedly] "One in a million? Wow! So you're telling me I *actually do 
have a chance!*"

This says a lot more to me about cryonics, and the reasons we opt for it,
than any movie exploring possibilities on the frontiers of science. 

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