FM apparently had started to write Countdown to Immortality around the time he appeared on this show. How did he reconcile his Space Age narrative of "the future" with his emphasis in the book on technologically enhanced safety and protection as key elements of superlongevity?
For example, consider that in the real year 2011 we see proposals to send volunteers on a one-way trip to Mars - a planet which doesn't have a cryonics facility, the last time I checked. The volunteers expect to die on Mars, if they don't die en route, and probably not from the diseases of aging, but from misadventures and possibly even from previously unknown pathologies caused by removing the human body from the planetary environment it evolved in.
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