From: Gina Miller (nanogirl@halcyon.com)
Date: Sat Dec 14 2002 - 16:51:11 MST
You can buy a copy of the tape here:
http://shopping.discovery.com/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10000&
storeId=10000&productId=12273&langId=-1&search=Y&searchKey=-1779773354
Gina Miller`
> Spike wrote:
> I just accidentally caught the last few minutes
> of a program on cryonics on the Discovery channel.
> I happened to spot it while channel surfing. Did
> anyone else see it? Comments? It looked quite well
> done and fairly balanced, tilted pro-Alcor perhaps,
> but not blindly optimistic. spike
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> Spike, what you saw was probably "Immortality on Ice" which originally
came out about five years ago. While it may have appeared "balanced" with
what little you saw at the end, I felt it was ultimately slanted against
cryonics. Every time a cryonicist in the program made a good point, they
would have a "real world" cryobiologist just shake their head and
essentially say "it just ain't so!" Of course the cryobiologists never took
into account the possibility of mature nanotechnology coming down the road
in the next fifty to one-hundred years due to the avalanche of technological
advancement which humanity has been having.
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> I was thrilled at the time to see a mass media program about cryonics, but
it could have been much better. I will have to send you my copy of it so
you and Shelley can see the program in its entirety and then dislike it as
much as I do. lol!
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> best wishes,
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> John
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