[ExI] The Handmaid's Tale

[Dan TheBookMan]

On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 7:19 PM spike jones via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> Ja particularly on that topic {discussing alternative sites for
> cryopreservation.}  A lot of us have been thinking about that for a long
> time.  We can easily see the risk of proletariat revolt in the US, and if
> so, the dewars are at risk.  We need a stable place somewhere that no one
> wants, such as... Greenland?

The Greenlanders seem to want it. And I'm not sure about its geologic
stability (think melting and calving glaciers, if nothing else), but I
imagine weather there is very harsh even in the inhabited parts. So
what happens if you need to get someone in during a really bad storm
when it might isolated for weeks?

I'm not sure of a proletarian revolt in the US either. I'd worry less
about proles breaking into the facility and more about, say, the
government itself simply outlawing the practice -- maybe on religious
grounds probably as cover for wanting to grab the wealth. (I mean
along the lines of a family is going into cryopreservation, but their
kin deciding that money might be better spent on a summer vacation or
a new deck. But no one would say that out loud, so they hire a lawyer
who says their dead relative was going against the laws of god and
man.)

Regards,

Dan
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