<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Marta Sandberg has posted some ideas about the Cryonics Hall of Fame. They are below and I will give my relies to them below.</div><div>This discussion is timely because the Hall of Fame idea is scheduled for discussion at the Venturist Cryonics Conference the first 3 days in June with the main event being Saturday June 2nd.</div><div>Many cryonicists have wanted to establish a Hall of Fame and now may be the time to discuss how to do it.</div><div> </div><div><br>MARTA SAID: What a fantastic idea. Some place for the cryonic movement to cluster around as well as a great<br>publicity opportunity. I won't be at the Venturist meeting so I will give my ideas<br>through this post instead.<br><br> MARTA 1: There has to be a substantial number of people to start the<br>Hall of Fame – the
initial inductees. <br>Cryonics has been going for 40 years (since TransTime started) and it<br>would be tempting to have 40 initial inductees, but that is probably too<br>many. </div><div> </div><div>DAVID: One question that comes to mind, as Marta points out, is the first year do we try to induct most of the original pioneers, or just a few each year?</div><div>What would be the reasons for doing it either way, or some other way?<br><br>MARTA 2: Then every year one or two more people would be<br>recognised. This way we continually recognise our own as well as give us a new media opportunity every year. If that seems too much, then induct new<br>people every two years.<br></div><div>DAVID: I like the idea of doing something each year as it keeps the idea in people's minds. What would be the benefit to do it every year vs. every two years?<br> <br><br>MARTA 3: Everybody who has a valid
cryonics contract should be able<br>to nominate inductees and vote. Leave it up to the cryonic organisation to contact their members and invite them to<br>write/email you to be put on your email list.<br><br> DAVID: I agree that the cryonics community of signed up and funded cryoncists should be the ones who nominate and vote in the inductees. The only role of the Venturists would be to manage the elections to insure fairness, and also we already have a small combo museum and library which has some possibility of growing into a very <span id="misspell-13"><span>larger</span></span> building in the near future.<br><br>MARTA 4: Once you have a list, then ask for nominations and then put<br>it to the vote. If you have somebody clever enough to set up an <span id="misspell-14"><span>on-line</span></span> voting system, then this takes a lot of the<br>grunt work off your shoulders. <br></div><div>DAVID: We will need to
think of all ways possible to allow every signed up cryoncists to nominate, discuss, research and vote. We will need some more ideas on the best way to do this.<br> <br><span class="tab"> MARTA 5: </span>I would suggest that each voting member get the same number of votes as there are places to fill – in other words if you decide to start<br>with twenty initial inductees, then each person can pick their twenty favourites. With this many votes there<br>is less likely hood that there would be a tie, but if it happens then predetermined committee would decide who is in and who is out.<br>MARTA 6: Just pick up to twenty people, but not in any particular<br>order. Otherwise there is too much chance for complications and ranking people creates unnecessary<br>competitiveness. <br><br> DAVID: We need a detailed and clear system on how this will work.<br><br>MARTA 7: You should try to
tweak the rules so that people living outside<br>USA also gets a fair chance of being voted in. It is natural to know your own countrymen better and to be a bit biased<br>against outsiders. As the vast majority of cryonicists are in The States this means that overseas candidates will have<br>a lot of trouble in getting in. Maybe have a certain number of places reserved for overseas candidates or give a<br>non-American a positive handicap. For example, Peter Tsolakides and Mark Milton have done a<br>sterling job in starting an Australian facility but although they are well known<br>in Australia, people outside my wonderful country may never have heard of them.<br> <br> DAVID: The Venturists have a good library with publications (<span id="misspell-20"><span>containing</span></span> news and historical reports) of every person ever associated with cryonics and what they have done. Once people are nominated
there can be a period of several months where we put out information and others can contribute testimonials all to be given to the voters before each election.<br><br>MARTA 8: Finally, the initial bunch of inductees will probably be heavily weighted towards people who are dead, but I would like the<br>annual/biannual inductees to mainly involve living people. We need role models who are still alive. It doesn't mean that frozen people can't be<br>voted in but once you decide what sort of handicap system can be used for overseas candidates you might use the same system, but in reverse, for dead<br>candidates.<br></div><div>DAVID: These ideas and new ones to be discussed on Saturday June 2nd at the Cryonics Conference and then after that <span id="misspell-22"><span>on-line</span></span> for a while until we agree on the terms and rules and start the project.<br> <br>MARTA CONCLUSION: These are just some thought
off the top of my head to start the conversation rolling<br>I think it is a fantastic idea. We need to start thinking about ourselves as a community with a lot more to bind us together than divides us.<br><var id="yui-ie-cursor"></var> <br>MARTA <span id="misspell-23"><span>AFTERTHOUGHT</span></span> 1: I would like to nominate whoever came up with this idea as<br>one of the initial inductees in the Cryonics Hall of Fame<br><br> DAVID: You are making me blush.<br><br>MARTA AFTERTHOUGHT2: BTW, exactly where is the building situated? Arizona is a big state.</div><div> </div><div>DAVID: The Society for Venturism museum and library are located at the Creekside Preserve Lodge in Mayer Arizona, about an hour's drive north of north Phoenix on the way to Prescott Arizona. We may have an invitation to move to a bigger building in a more popular cryonics site in the future. I can not discuss that at
present.</div><div>People can see pictures of the Creekside Lodge at <a href="http://www.creeksidepreserve.com">www.creeksidepreserve.com</a></div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div></div></body></html>