X-Message-Number: 7271
From:  (Thomas Donaldson)
Subject: Re: CryoNet #7262 - #7267
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 1996 16:07:12 -0800 (PST)

i


Hi!

Didn't I say I'd have some more comments?

First of all, I agree that Bob Ettinger's book DID start the cryonics movement.
But if Mike Perry doesn't jump in before me, I'll say that other authors 
had stated or were stating the very same ideas at about the same time. It's
not just a failure of cryobiologists.

The Venturist Society has published a nice little book by one such person,
Evan Cooper. Cryonics (what we now call cryonics) was in the air. Speaking for
myself alone, I first started thinking about the possibilities of long term
suspended animation on reading Herman Kahn's THE YEAR 2000. 

As for the problems in actually bring it about, I strongly suspect that they
would have been the same, regardless of who started it. Even if it were a 
scientist, he would very likely have ended up excommunicated (I mean that:
I was an academic myself, once --- not that I was excommunicated, but I can
see how that would happen). Lots of details, like its name, would probably
be different, but then what would you expect?

Re: transport to the Cryofest:

I'm not in a position to offer any direct help, quite the contrary, but it
seems to me that if you can afford an airplane flight you can probably afford
to take an airport bus right to the proper address. If you don't want to do
that, here is a suggestion: contact someone who lives in the area and ask
them for the public bus schedules for Sunday. If you find no one is so
forthcoming, call up your local library, ask for a northern Santa Clara
Cty, CA phone book and the phone number for the Santa Clara Cty bus service.
Call them and they will give you bus schedules.

Hell, I'll send it to you myself, though I live in San Mateo Cty, not
Santa Clara cty and the bus services are different.

			Long long life,

				Thomas Donaldson


Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=7271