Re: Trygve's Travesty

From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lee@piclab.com)
Date: Tue Mar 12 2002 - 11:25:21 MST


> (E. Shaun Russell <e_shaun@extropy.org>):
> Trygve Bauge wrote:
>
> >Re the cryonic winter festival in Nederland Colorado.
> >"The frozen dead guy festival" (Grandpa Bredo's festival)
> >Press release from Trygve Bauge.
>
> It need not be said here that Trygve is a kook. A loon. Someone with a
> skewered sense of reality, but yet, like many kooks and loons before him,
> he has to inflict his looniness on all those around him. And in his case,
> it is cryonics itself.

I wouldn't be so hard on Trygve myself: at least in the US, support by
loonies actually increases the acceptance of things by the public, if
not by the scientific community--but who cares about them anyway? It's
public acceptance that will get the money flowing, and scientists will
change their tune when research grants are involved.

By I /would/ like to have seen a press release along these lines:
"The French, who, like many Europeans, look down their nose at us
primitive Americans because we still execute criminals, is about to
destroy two of its innocent citizens..."

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Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lee/>
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