Arvoitus: Kuka haluaa elää 200-vuotiaaksi? No tietysti 199-vuotias.
"I will argue that ageing is a genetic disorder, or rather, it is many genetic disorders, some of which afflict us all, others of which afflict only some of us. This point of view goes against the grain of most definitions of disease. Medical tradition distinguishes between 'normal' ageing, about which nothing much is done, and 'age-related diseases', such as arteriosclerosis, cancer and osteoporosis, that consume vast amounts of national health budget. But this distinction is an illusion, a necessary medical fiction that allows physicians to ignore a disease that affect us all but which they are impotent to cure or even ameliorate. Properly understood, ageing is precisely what it seems: a grim and universal affliction."
- Armand Marie Leroi, Mutants
An even more apt analogy might be a Mafia protection racket. Humanity is the shopkeeper, the helpless elderly man cowering behind the cash register, while God is the trench-coated mob enforcer making the proverbial offer we can't refuse. "This sure is a nice soul you've got here," the mobster sneers. "It would be a terrible shame if it were to meet with some unfortunate accident."
- Divine Blackmail
Cruel Leonidas demanded that you stand. I require only that you kneel.
- Xerxes, 300
If I had free will, I would choose to be funnier. I would choose always to have the right witty riposte ready to disarm adversaries and delight friends. But sadly, it is not so.
- I think therefore I am, I think
Tänään näköradiossa kello 22.00: 4D-dokumentti pariskunnasta joka on tehnyt syväjäädytyssopimuksen. Ohjelmaesittelyssä oli vieläpä kutsuttu pariskuntaa "tekniikan pioneereiksi", kiitettävän positiivinen asenne toimittajalta (tosin "kryo" oli myös typotettu "kreo").
Posted by: Alari at March 27, 2007 05:17 PMDokkari on katsottavissa myös englanniksi täältä:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1598612092045110436
Arthur Rowe pääsee taas vetäisemään "hampurilaisesta lehmäksi" -väitteen kuin sillä olisi jotain painoarvoa. Kryopotilaitahan ei yleensä hakata kappaleiksi, puristeta lihamyllyn läpi, pakasteta lättyinä, ruskisteta parilalla ja syödä vehnäsämpylän välissä.