[ExI] How many current members of ExI?

Mon Apr 20 09:57:09 UTC 2020

I was very fortunate if I were to tell you the story you would get a giggle.
when Stephen Hawking's book the history of everything came out I was in
Princeton New Jersey for one reason or another.
I got a copy of his book and I read about a dozen pages and it was going to
be work and it was over my head but I really wanted to know what was going
on so I took myself across the street to the public library there in
downtown Princeton. I walked up to the information desk and I asked if they
had a young adult version of Stephen Hawking's book. Much to my surprise
she stepped from behind the desk and took me downstairs and walked right
over to the little thin volume and handed it to me.
At that moment all those years ago I said like a Little dream not even a
wish just a girly thought like wow!
I thought I would love to thank Stephen Hawking for caring so much to make
sure that this came out so that many generations all sorts of people could
understand his work. and there I was with all of his physics friends from
all over because he was going to present his two black holes colliding
finished work he had a PowerPoint and everything which I have taken some
photographs of I have on my phone if somebody wants to do it I don't I
didn't organize my pictures well enough.

And my first thing that I wanted to say to Stephen Hawking was a little
Princeton story and how to light it I was and he looked up at me with his
nice with such gratitude but I didn't try to be somebody else that I could
tell him that I really enjoyed the young adult version and it was a just
such a gift.

I'm part of why he was in California was to make a plan for which movie
making or television group wood be trusted with passing his work on two
young people and too interested adults who are not scientific to try and
let as many people follow the new way of thinking.

My plus-one friend took pictures so somewhere there pictures of me with
Stephen Hawking a few in 2012. It was one of the Great moments of my life
and I've had so many opportunities to me and talk to people in a casual
setting I've been very fortunate.

Thank you for being interested in my little story about adjust a really
great man just standing next to him was such a pleasure he had so little
arrogance.
I don't know when I'll speak again but I want to thank you so much for
allowing me to be here and to follow along and your wonderful inspirational
threads yeah

On Sun, Apr 19, 2020, 7:16 PM Brent Allsop via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

>
> Hi Ilsa,
> Good to hear these wonderful comments from you.
> Wow, you've had such an interesting conversation with Stephen Hawking?
> That gives you as at least as much credibility as those of us who went out
> to lunch with Elon Musk, back at the 2001 extropy conference, before he
> sold PayPall.
> Looking forward to hearing more.
> Brent
>
> On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 7:13 PM ilsa via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>> I read all the time but I rarely communicate but I want to say hello at
>> this invitation.
>>
>> In my conversation with Stephen Hawking in 2012.   I've come to
>> understand that faith is a non-material path to Infiniti, the way that
>> education leads to a path, and can be described, but I'm not going to do
>> it.  I'm just saying it's probably in the young adult version of Stephen
>> Hawking's seminal book.
>>
>> With delight to be feeding my mind with your lovely conversations over
>> the last 15 plus years.
>>
>> Respect and gratitude, ilsa
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 17, 2020, 4:49 PM Jose Cordeiro via extropy-chat <
>> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Spike and ExI friends,
>>>
>>>      How are you doing? I am not a regular writer here, but I do try to
>>> read most messages since there are excellent contributions, and some people
>>> here that I admire and follow from many years!
>>>
>>>      How many participants are there in the list now? I imagine most are
>>> like me, who do not participate actively?
>>>
>>>      By the way, I am planning to organize the next TransVision
>>> conference in Madrid, during October 16-18, or later depending on the
>>> pandemic, and I would like to invite you all to come. It will be safe, fun,
>>> educational, and immortal, so kindly share with others too, and let me know
>>> if you can participate, please: https://www.transvisionmadrid.com/
>>>
>>>      Finally, let me share with you my interview/article/profile in the
>>> latest issue of the Alcor Cryonics magazine, I hope that you have a few
>>> minutes to take a look and comment: Cryonics Magazine 2019
>>> <https://www.alcor.org/CryonicsMagazine/cryonics2020.html>
>>>
>>> Cryonics Magazine 2019
>>>
>>> <https://www.alcor.org/CryonicsMagazine/cryonics2020.html>
>>>
>>>      Best of luck, keep safe, wash your hands, and welcome to Spain
>>> after the pandemic...
>>>
>>>      Futuristically yours,
>>>
>>>      La vie est belle!
>>>
>>> Jose Cordeiro, MBA, PhD (www.cordeiro.org)
>>>
>>>
>>> On Friday, April 17, 2020, 09:48:44 PM GMT+2, spike jones via
>>> extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> With the recent surge in chatter here, and since there aren’t that many
>>> of us left, I propose relaxing guidelines on number of posts per day.  We
>>> instituted that back in the 90s when there were a coupla hundred regular
>>> posters.  Now it is down to the usual suspects, about a dozen.  I propose
>>> we all just post away.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Stanford did a study which suggests there is waaaay more Covid-19
>>> exposure than we previously thought.  My doctor contacted and wants me to
>>> come in for testing when the quarantine is over.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.14.20062463v1?__cf_chl_jschl_tk__=be77753b5f9c509cb865d14fbdaf97eeb78e11d5-1587139595-0-AWIUFx6wN0uXOvkl2GvKJJc-Ig8sPLjxRzO454lTi9KpWYjKbxnVGQzEHGD9bYZUKYUUOdrfRQ_wQREzNDVmpdEWVIZYt6UTI9m_LD7byikYQA-loXE677ZRO1gHfKAz7mccB9JD5q3Y8YVehLtYCxNulZzxgq75-rzgoHZ2Heyj5PDAftyTcJ9j-gS_9XvqhP1w_lcrCrvVy9EM4vDfOYSqAiDYODT4O2PXN776dtAuibDok5gMCdzZYcCoRi69cdjoFoqV7X4-dhUOTFhjUA5EzGIOpkN7fsqrkufnBv0pOXqb3nOUoVRFDs5ZdBzO9w_yicdwyhIdvht3lBZyMgA
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I was very sick in December with viral pneumonia and they didn’t know
>>> what it was.  I landed in the hospital.  It was most unpleasant, but
>>> afterwards I self-quarantined, a long time before anyone heard of Covid.  I
>>> assumed it was the worst damn flu I have ever had by an order of
>>> magnitude.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> We have a lot of regular travelers to and from China in the area.  In
>>> retrospect, it is very possible that I had Covid-19.  It took me four weeks
>>> to feel better, and about seven weeks before I really felt completely back
>>> to normal.  If so, it would agree with what Stanford U found.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> spike
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