[ExI] so just buy it

[spike at rainier66.com]

-----Original Message-----
From: Keith Henson <hkeithhenson at gmail.com> 
Sent: Friday, 23 January, 2026 3:06 PM
To: ExI chat list <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
Cc: spike at rainier66.com
Subject: Re: [ExI] so just buy it

"and go where it is warm."

And die.  People who have adapted to cold places do not do well at all if they move to warmer places.  I think tuberculosis kills them.

Keith


Well there is that.  But with a million bucks, think of the HVAC system they could afford.  They could make like Mister Freeze from Batman.

But I agree, that might be a problem.  I worked with an Inuit, full blooded, not the half-eskimo colleague I called Ivanov.  The Inuit's name was "Ouei" pronounced Oh Way.  He was a short round guy: his belt length was his height.  This was in China Lake California.  He failed to show up to work, no answer on his phone.  The constables went to his house, his car was there, didn't answer the door.  They broke in, found he had sat down in front of the TV and never stood up.  He was age 42.

But one would think somewhere cold would take the expatriates, if they owned a million bucks each.  Minnesota likes to take in immigrants.  It's cold up there most of the time.

In general however, our current realization of the need for massive expansion of electric generation capacity makes us recognize the value of the far northern land masses because of the availability of cooling water (and cooling air for that matter.)  Not much is being done with it currently.  Greenland isn't the only possibility: there is northern Alaska, the Northwest Territory in Canada they might be willing to sell.  Total population 46k.  Musk could offer them each a million bucks and get all that for what he paid for Twitter.  Rename the capital from Yellowknife to Goldknife.

Cold places suddenly have new value.  So... send money, let's get this party moving!

spike