[extropy-chat] Longevity Meme: Activism for Healthy Life Extension

[Dirk Bruere]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert J. Bradbury" <bradbury at aeiveos.com>
To: "ExI chat list" <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 27, 2003 6:29 PM
Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] Longevity Meme: Activism for Healthy Life
Extension


>
> On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, Adrian Tymes wrote:
>
> Commenting on 2000-7000 year life spans...
>
> > Or scientists who don't want to overly future shock
> > the public, fearing they might lose their jobs if
> > they did.
>
> Well, if they are short-changing reasonable expectations
> intentionally then IMO its a form of fraud.


I don't think anyone is going to complain if they find out their treatment
is good for 2000 years rather than the 10 that was advertised.
BTW, interesting implications...
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994418

Dirk

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