Re: Lynn’s six star lis t (or top ten list) in November 2025

Paul S Person <[email protected]> Wed, 24 Dec 2025 08:43:02 -0800
Newsgroups rec.arts.sf.written,alt.books.david-weber,alt.fan.perry-rhodan,alt.books.orson-s-card,alt.fan.heinlein
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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On Wed, 24 Dec 2025 00:55:23 -0800, BCFD 36 <[email protected]> wrote:

>On 12/21/25 14:51, Lynn McGuire wrote:

<snippo -- when do we start seeing a 7-star "best 10" lists,
preferably one with no more than 10 entries?>

>> I believe that I am younger than you, I am 65.=A0 But my Real Life =
score=20
>> is 85 due to my two heart attacks.
>>=20
>You are a few years younger, but not many. I am not familiar with the=20
>term "Real Life Score". No heart attacks for me as yet. No cancer other=20
>than basel cell on my forehead, and a few other issues, but nothing life=
=20
>threatening so far.

I vaguely recall reading something that may be that or something
similar.

Think of it as a way to applying Indiana Jones' remark "It's not the
years, it's the mielage" by measuring the mileage.

The goal I seem to associate with it is to answer the question: why do
some people live longer than others? The idea ultimately to share the
wealth by converting the answer into a marketable treatment or drug.
--=20
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"