As Steve said,
The Brin-L weekly chat has been a list tradition for over six
years. Way back on 27 May, 1998, Marco Maisenhelder first set
up a chatroom for the list, and on the next day, he established
a weekly chat time. We've been through several servers, chat
technologies, and even casts of
Richard Baker wrote:
Suppose that we've more or less perfected cryogenic suspension. People
can be deep frozen and held in that state indefinitely. Thawing is more
problematic. Some percentage of frozen people fail to be revivified
at all. Of those who are, all require five to ten years of
