[extropy-chat] Join The Three Hundred

Adrian Tymes wingcat at pacbell.net
Wed Mar 17 17:30:00 UTC 2004


--- Reason <reason at longevitymeme.org> wrote:
> The Three Hundred is a classical concept, based on a
> battle that saved the
> future of Western Civilization: Thermopylae. In 480
> B.C., 300 Spartan
> warriors fought against incredible odds to gain time
> for the rest of Greece
> to mobilize against the Persian hordes. Without the
> delaying action fought
> at the narrow pass of Thermopylae, the achievements
> of Greece and our
> culture as we know it would have been swept away.

You might want to reconsider the presentation of this
initiative.  Contributing money hardly equates to
risking one's life in battle, and this cognitive
dissonance would detract from the image.  (A closer
corrolary would be for the longevity researchers
themselves to be the Three Hundred, with sponsors to
back them.)

Also, why limit yourself to only three hundred
sponsors?  More money is rarely a bad thing, and some
might think that if there will only ever be three
hundred sponsors, they might not be able to recruit
their friends into this, thus they might not try if
they do donate and might be dissuaded from donating in
the first place.  (OTOH, you might well limit the
researchers to three hundred or so for administrative
reasons.)



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