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Dan Spires: "[your] lack of logic and research is offending"

NASAWatch.INFO: Hmmmm....Let's see where such a lack allegedly exists....

NASAWatch.INFO said: <Ted Williams' body (or at least his head) is rumored to be frozen like Walt Disney's supposedly is.

Dan Spires says: "False, regardless of supposition."

NASAWatch.INFO asks: So you found a website that claims that Walt Disney's body wasn't frozen. If I find one touting the value of some Florida swampland, will you promise to buy it if the price is right? I mean, by your "logic" if it's said on the web, then it disproves assertions to the contrary. Meanwhile, NASAWatch.INFO qualified the Disney-related "assertion" with a "supposedly". Somehow you disregard the "supposedly" while not explaining it. Oh well...

Next:

Dan Spires says: "A manned flight to another galaxy would require such technological advances as to compare today's miracles against those of Socrates. It would be considered magic by today's standards. Also, we would likely improve upon the tool, resulting in greatly extended life-spans, possibly even immortality. And if you wish to argue the logistics involved with the migration of even one (1) mobile sentient to a distant galaxy, I shall again evoke the magic of future technologies to explain it all."

NASAWatch.INFO: So if things appear impossible by today's standards, then they're not even worth contemplating. Meanwhile, you believe freezing or cloning technology would be pointless because you have faith that alternative life-extending technologies will rule the day. Maybe so, but I don't see the lack of logic in what we posted. I also don't think it's prudent to put all of our technological eggs into just a few baskets. Next, as for:

NASAWatch.INFO said: "As for cloning's potential usefulness, the Schwarzeneggar movie The Sixth Day comes to mind (as one could theoretically clone one's body and transfer one's memories [or at least one's memory-laden brain lobes] to the younger version of one's self)."

Spires replied: "This would be a heinous crime of ethics, as the cloned being would be an entity unto itself. Perhaps you’re just from another planet where people just don’t matter?"

NASAWatch.INFO says: Kind of like all the animals you pay to have slaughtered regularly for your culinary pleasures? In Germany animal rights are already protected in the Constitution. So does your consumption make you a barbarian, or from another planet where life forms don't matter (as you've rudely insinuated about us)?
Your rebuttal may be that morality's relative. If so, then how is it illogical to have mentioned the scenario from The Sixth Day...

NASAWatch.INFO: Cloning (and in some places I suppose cryogenics) may be immoral, and even illegal in the USA ...

Dan Spires: Cloning is not illegal within the USA.

NASAWatch.INFO: So "may" = "is" in your dictionary? Not in ours. Nevertheless, the Senate's the only thing (barely) keeping cloning from becoming illegal in the USA.

NASAWatch.INFO said: "I sincerely apologize if any of what's above offends anyone for religious reasons."

Dan Spires said: "If anything, the lack of logic and research is offending. Cheers, Dan"

NASAWatch.INFO: We rest our case. There's no need to engage in further logically questionable attacks on us, Dan. We aren't trying to reach out to the "intellects" of intolerant and hostile types. Please feel free to ignore us from now on, rather than insult with such remarkable intellectual arrogance.

"cheers"

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