[extropy-chat] Re: extropy-chat Digest, Vol 9, Issue 30

[Gregory Propf]

Ben Cunningham wrote:

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>Martin Rees, the Astronomer Royal
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This is little off topic but Rees has said something to the effect that 
"I'd rather end up in an English churchyard than a California freezer" 
in reference to cryonics at least.  Not to imply that one must be a 
cryonicist to support the PP of course.  I have his book "Our Final 
Hour" which is a fairly gloomy look at some of the more threatening 
aspects of coming technologies (but also natural threats).  He discusses 
interstellar travel at one point as a task for "the posthuman future" 
but I'm not really sure how he would come down on the PP in general.  
Having written such a book though, I'm sure he *does* have an opinion.  
Wish I could find the damn book now...

and ya gotta love Dawkins.  He says all the stuff I'm usually afraid to :)