I started a kind of eMail-action to promote SENS and would like to suggest that other people might join in. The original proposal can be found here
http://www.methusela...read.php?t=1496
so I'll quote it:
"I find it very ineffecient trying to persuade individual persons of SENS. I don't even have to bring the talk to the 1000 year lifespan; just saying that something can be done scientifically against aging often seems to result in the other person refusing any discussion about the topic (with the well known arguments you probably also encountered). So I decided to focus on people familiar with biomedical sciences, especially on younger one as they
1. are more open to SENS and new technologies
2. are the future scientists to do actual research or even to decide about funding
So what I did was the following:
using the websites of the university I collected all eMail-adresses of PhD students and postdocs in medical, biomedical, biochemical etc. sciences. Than I wrote a very brief eMail with a suggestion to consider SENS, giving links to the wikipedia articles and sens.org. I put all eMail-adresses in the BCC and submitted it using a fake-account.
I did this for 5 universities before I stopped the action. The reaction was more or less positive, eg, some even responding to be interested in the topic. At least it seems that it was not generally seen as spam or resulting in a more negative view of the topic (I found out afterwards, that one university invited Aubrey to a workshop). However I will continue this action not before the new website is launched, as the current state is too miserable.
It takes about 1,5 hours to collect the addresses (on average 150-170 per university). In my rough estimate about 50% will delete the eMail without reading the links, 25% will read the articles in part but are not interested, 12,5% will read it more indeept but are undecided about the topic and the remaining 12,5% are in general interested. Finally about 1%-2% might decide to take a closer look to SENS and will consider it or similiar approaches in some way when deciding about their future career or will invite Aubrey or will suggest/discuss it to other students etc.
imo this is the most reasonable thing I can do at the moment to spread the word. So what do you think about this approach? Is it effecient/my estimates realistic? Or to direct? Could it be improved? Anyone willing to join with research centers in their country?"
This a cheap, fast action everyone can do. I don't have the time to cover all major universities of the world, so other people might do it for their countries - they just should coordinate their actions, so they don't write multiple emails to the same university.
