[extropy-chat] NY Times article about Aubrey de Grey

[Reason]

They netted around 7k so far as a result of Pop!Tech. Now, rather than
hoping and talking about this, how about you folks make contributions
yourselves? One of the important things at this stage is the number of
donations - being able to show a long, long list of modest donations makes
larger donations much more likely.

So how about you folks all jump in for $10 or $100? It's a small amount and
won't take you more than three minutes to go to
http://www.methuselahmouse.org/donate.htm and do it online. This small
amount of money will have an enormous, snowballing effect on your future
health and welfare: each dollar could potentially save 685 lives according
to Dave Gobel's math. I really can't think of any other cause right now that
is doing as much for healthy life extension as this one. (Please note that
I'm not asking you to do anything that I haven't already done: please see
the donor list at http://www.methuselahmouse.org/donors.php - I'm in as "The
Longevity Meme", my advocacy and news organization).

On a similar note, why doesn't ExI also contribute a token amount?
Alternately, one of you folks could easily contribute on behalf of the ExI
if the management is up for that (and of course, I think they should be
contributing as well, especially given their views on healthy life
extension: lead by example).

So how about putting a little of your money where your hopes are? Hope gets
you nothing: action does.

Reason
http://www.exratio.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org
> [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org]On Behalf Of David A.
> Kekich
> Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2003 9:37 AM
> To: ExI chat list
> Subject: RE: [extropy-chat] NY Times article about Aubrey de Grey
>
>
> Spike wrote:
>
> >
> > In today's San Jose Merc, there was a single sentence
> > about a group of scientists at Wake Forest University
> > that had developed a strain of mice that could survive
> > a direct injection of cancer cells.  The sentence was
> > in a section called "News of the Weird" which
> > ordinarily features only the most bizarre crime
> > stories, unexplainable stupidity, unsuccessful
> > suicide attempts, government corruption, etc.
> >
> > Evidently much of even modern enlightened society
> > considers life extension as bizarre, undesireable,
> > immoral, etc.  We have a big job ahead of us.
> >
>
> Fortunately, we don't need society's support, backing nor understanding...
> not even modern enlightened society's. Having Aubrey (and others)speak in
> front of visionaries like Steve Case, John Scully and Robert
> Metcalfe opens
> up the possibilities of getting one or more people with financial
> clout and
> intellectual leverage to bring funding (and even legitimacy) to
> our efforts.
> A little seed funding alone will do it. Once we have a proof of
> concept, it
> will be a natural progression to human applications.
>
> Stay on tour Aubrey.
>
> Dave
>
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