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To: D. Long who wrote (172819)	7/7/2006 2:35:51 PM
From: ig	Respond to of 793912

If only we could live an extra century or two. Don't get me started on the Cure For Death. methuselahmouse.org

To: D. Long who wrote (172819)	7/7/2006 2:39:56 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793912

So far, it just stumps me. I think it's illogical, irrational, hysterical, with little or no basis in reality -- maybe I'm wrong? I read another SF book recently, the name of which I can't recall. It wasn't a very good book (they had green monitors on the space ships and use microfiche)) but I was on an airplane stuck with it so I read. It was about some folks breaking out into distant space, which they could do because they had come to live many hundreds of years. It wasn't a key part of the story line but there were occasional mentions of how the long life span affected them. One is that no one could remember his childhood. Of his first half dozen spouses, for that matter, and barely his kids. Got me thinking. Very different family relationships. I enjoy the societal aspects of sci fi. I don't care for the technology or space cowboy aspects of it.