Cryonics

2011-08-28 Thread Jon Louis Mann
Subject: WorldCon in Reno David Brin, Greg Bear and Gregory Benford were all on a panel at Renovation last week. Amusing event.  I brought up cryonics.  Everyone in the audience was aware of it, several people were thinking about it for themselves and of course Gregory and I were signed

Cryonics

2011-08-28 Thread Jon Louis Mann
Subject: WorldCon in Reno David Brin, Greg Bear and Gregory Benford were all on a panel at Renovation last week. Amusing event. I brought up cryonics. Everyone in the audience was aware of it, several people were thinking about it for themselves and of course Gregory and I were signed

Cryonics

2011-08-28 Thread Jon Louis Mann
Subject: WorldCon in Reno David Brin, Greg Bear and Gregory Benford were all on a panel at Renovation last week. Amusing event. I brought up cryonics. Everyone in the audience was aware of it, several people were thinking about it for themselves and of course Gregory and I were signed

RE: Galileo was wrong!

2011-08-28 Thread Dan Minette
A few Catholics still insist Galileo was wrong - latimes.com It was a ROTFLMAO piece for me. It was really fun to see how both Notre Dame and the Vatican Observatory were in the are these guy real? mode. I gave my first paper at a high energy physics symposium at Notre Dame, and saw the head of

Re: Galileo was wrong!

2011-08-28 Thread John Williams
On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Dan Minette danmine...@att.net wrote: It's funny, when you think about it.  A Protestant can rail against every other church and found his own church.  But if you're an ultraconservative Catholic, how in the world do you argue that the Pope is dead wrong on the

Re: Brin-l Digest, Vol 30, Issue 6

2011-08-28 Thread Keith Henson
On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Jon Louis Mann net_democr...@yahoo.com wrote: (Keith wrote) David Brin, Greg Bear and Gregory Benford were all on a panel at Renovation last week. Amusing event.  I brought up cryonics.  Everyone in the audience was aware of it, several people were