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

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Reason [mailto:reason at exratio.com]
> Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2003 12:28 PM
> To: ExI chat list
> Subject: RE: [extropy-chat] NY Times article about Aubrey de Grey
>
>
> 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
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>
> 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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