<div dir="ltr"><br><div>Hi Ilsa,</div><div>Good to hear these wonderful comments from you.</div><div>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.</div><div>Looking forward to hearing more.</div><div>Brent</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 7:13 PM ilsa via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">I read all the time but I rarely communicate but I want to say hello at this invitation.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">With delight to be feeding my mind with your lovely conversations over the last 15 plus years.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Respect and gratitude, ilsa</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Apr 17, 2020, 4:49 PM Jose Cordeiro via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div><div dir="ltr">Dear Spike and ExI friends,</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"> 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!</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"> How many participants are there in the list now? I imagine most are like me, who do not participate actively?</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"> 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: <span><a href="https://www.transvisionmadrid.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.transvisionmadrid.com/</a></span></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr"> 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: <span><a href="https://www.alcor.org/CryonicsMagazine/cryonics2020.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer" target="_blank">Cryonics Magazine 2019</a></span><div><br></div><div id="gmail-m_1758311394614314285m_-901983408067654522ydpdb1b0878enhancr_card_7607040299" style="max-width:400px;font-family:YahooSans,"Helvetica Neue","Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.alcor.org/CryonicsMagazine/cryonics2020.html" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(0,0,0)" rel="nofollow noreferrer" target="_blank"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="max-width:400px"><tbody><tr><td width="400"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="max-width:400px;border-width:1px;border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(224,228,233);border-radius:2px"><tbody><tr><td><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background:rgb(255,255,255);width:100%;max-width:400px;border-radius:0px 0px 2px 2px;border-top:1px solid rgb(224,228,233)"><tbody><tr><td style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);padding:16px 0px 16px 12px;vertical-align:top;border-radius:0px 0px 0px 2px"></td><td style="vertical-align:middle;padding:12px 24px 16px 12px;width:99%;font-family:YahooSans,"Helvetica Neue","Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;border-radius:0px 0px 2px"><h2 style="font-size:14px;line-height:19px;margin:0px 0px 6px;font-family:YahooSans,"Helvetica Neue","Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,40,42);max-width:314px">Cryonics Magazine 2019</h2><p style="font-size:12px;line-height:16px;margin:0px;color:rgb(151,155,167)"></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></a><div style="width:100%;min-height:100%"><div><div></div></div></div></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr"> Best of luck, keep safe, wash your hands, and welcome to Spain after the pandemic...</div></div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div><font size="2"><span style="line-height:1.22;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> Futuristically yours,</span><br></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif"><span style="line-height:1.22;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2" style="background-color:inherit"><br></font></span></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif"><span style="line-height:1.22;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2" style="background-color:inherit"> La vie est belle!</font></span></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><span><br></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span>Jose Cordeiro, MBA, PhD </span></font><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" id="gmail-m_1758311394614314285m_-901983408067654522ydpe077688fyui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1503237199187_489658" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span id="gmail-m_1758311394614314285m_-901983408067654522ydpe077688fyui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1503237199187_489657">(<a href="http://www.cordeiro.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">www.cordeiro.org</a></span></font><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" id="gmail-m_1758311394614314285m_-901983408067654522ydpe077688fyui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1503237199187_495431" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span id="gmail-m_1758311394614314285m_-901983408067654522ydpe077688fyui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1503237199187_495430">)</span></font></font></div></div></div></div>
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On Friday, April 17, 2020, 09:48:44 PM GMT+2, spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:
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<div><div id="gmail-m_1758311394614314285m_-901983408067654522yiv8977925986"><div><div><p> </p><p> </p><p>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.</p><p> </p><p>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.</p><p> </p><p><a rel="nofollow noreferrer" href="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" target="_blank">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</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>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. </p><p> </p><p>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.</p><p> </p><p>spike</p></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>extropy-chat mailing list<br><a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat</a><br></div>
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