[extropy-chat] Altered genes let roundworms wiggle longer

[David Lubkin]

Robert J. Bradbury wrote:

>1) Just because humans are not *currently* like worms, is no
>assertion that they cannot be made like worms.

I, for one, have known more than a few humans who were worm-like.

>I for one can
>think of a number of distinct advantages to having a human dauer
>phase.  Two of which would be avoiding the current tiresome political
>administration and simply allowing one to exist in a low
>energy state as ones mutual fund wealth accumulated.  I am
>sure the list could be extended.  (One can obviously draw
>interesting comparisons between humans in a dauer phase and
>humans which have been suspended using cryonics.)

Have any of you actually been to Alcor, behind the scenes? Is it possible 
that cryonics literature discussing humans in a dewar is simply a 
perpetuated Fred Chamberlain misspelling?

Enquiring minds want to know.


-- David Lubkin.