X-Message-Number: 7416 Date: Sat, 4 Jan 1997 00:51:38 -0500 (EST) From: Robin Helweg-Larsen <> Subject: Misc. Reply Merel wrote: I > should also, however, take issue with his description of my thoughts as > "skepticism", as least in that this may imply I doubt our abilities to > attain the stars; I don't doubt our ability to do this. I just also > don't doubt our ability to screw it up royally. I'm not so much > sceptical as interested in anticipating and preparing against the > difficulties that lie before us - "cautious" might be a better word. > Coetzee wrote: > Thus you can get DNA, RNA or chloroform injection. Eat all kinds of > health food. You will age slower. The final solution to the aging > problem will be a cocktail of chemicals or other means that will do it > with out anyone really understand why because so many factors are > involved. All you have to do is to improve the environment for "young > cells". Donaldson wrote: But in technology it will mean that we should > someday know how to grow new limbs, and not long after new bodies on > heads. (I will add that however repair is done, you will probably be > unconscious while it happens, and wake up with a body even better than > your previous one). My miscellaneous reply is a New Year's wish to the three of you, and to everyone reading this: "May you build a ladder to the stars "And climb on every rung "And may you stay "Forever young." -Bob Dylan Always optimistic that we will achieve, literally, the dreams of all the ages, Robin HL Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=7416