Hey Spike, yeah it has been a while (about 4 years to be exact). Although my extropic interests haven't faded, my time has really diminished, which is why I kind of gave up on my participation here. But I have been lurking silently. I keep waiting for a major breakthrough in nanotech and/or biotech or AI to get me really excited about the future, but it's taking an awful long time, so I've been concentrating on my present instead :P<br>
<br>Glad to see you are still around. Upward and onward!<br><br>Zero<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2010/5/20 spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>></span><br>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">ZERO POWERS!</font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">How the heck have you been, man! Several of us were
looking all over for you, but you disappeared cwithout a trace. You have
exactly nada internet presence. We couldn't find you for
years.</font></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">Welcome baaaack!</font></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">{8-]</font></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">spike</font></span></div><br>
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[mailto:<a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Zero
Powers<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, May 20, 2010 3:35 PM<br><b>To:</b> ExI chat
list<br><b>Subject:</b> [ExI] Holy Schlamoley! Venter's team creates synthetic
life!<br></font><br></div>
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<p>It was a dream that began nearly 15 years ago, when <a title="More from
guardian.co.uk on Craig Venter" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/venter" target="_blank">Craig Venter</a>, a Vietnam
veteran turned geneticist<span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"> ... </font></span>
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