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::: Now that you mention it, the whole section of cryonics is a bit thin, I don't reall any of the details but Henson is on record lecturing about the medical ethics as well as the financial ethics about cryonics, though I don't recall anything about the legal aspects beyond inheritance of a "well maybe he's dead, maybe not" last will and testament left behind by the dearly maybe departed. Still the extant article touches on it, maybe additional links to his lectures. There should be a web site dedicated to archiving his work, the guy's old and none of us are going to live forever... Oh wait... Maybe we will. :) ] (]) 19:00, 27 September 2018 (UTC)
::: Now that you mention it, the whole section of cryonics is a bit thin, I don't reall any of the details but Henson is on record lecturing about the medical ethics as well as the financial ethics about cryonics, though I don't recall anything about the legal aspects beyond inheritance of a "well maybe he's dead, maybe not" last will and testament left behind by the dearly maybe departed. Still the extant article touches on it, maybe additional links to his lectures. There should be a web site dedicated to archiving his work, the guy's old and none of us are going to live forever... Oh wait... Maybe we will. :) ] (]) 19:00, 27 September 2018 (UTC)
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I have been scanning my Dad's army papers. Among them are the citations for his decorations. He was awarded the Bronze Star and the Legion of Merit for things he did related to the Korean War. If someone wants to put (Bronze Star, Legion of Merit) after "decorated" I would appreciate it. I would do it myself, but that's skating kind of close self-promotion. Keith Henson (talk) 19:59, 19 September 2018 (UTC)
The details probably should have been added a long time ago when the article was first created, so yes, I added the proposed text. In fact the whole BLP article here probably needs to have details added about the L5 Society involvement and some reference to the various academic white papers the subject has written about single-stage-to-orbit and tethered atmospheric launch systems, but only if such white papers have actual academic reference counts in other significant research so that they're "notable."
Also did Henson ever actually meet Robert A Heinlein?
Yes. At MidAmeriCon, the World SF convention in Kansas City in 1976. A year or two later my ex-wife and I talked him into being on the board of the L5 Society. In that capacity, we had many interesting interactions with him. In my experience, he was as impressive in real life as his most engaging heroes. Around 1986 Eric Drexler and I tried to talk Heinlein into signing up for cryonics, but Virginia (Heinlein's wife) opposed it.
And did any of Henson's research and publications influence Heinlein in any way, either science publications or fiction, does anybody know? SoftwareThing (talk) 16:42, 20 September 2018 (UTC)
Possibly, but I can't think of any good examples. Perhaps someone else can. He only wrote 5 books after 1976. The influence certainly flowed the other way. For example, a lot of the "Space Farm" paper presented at the first Princeton SMF conference (1975) was cribbed from "Farmer in the Sky," a Heinlein Juvenile my mother read to me when I was about 8. (She later regretted getting me started on SF.)
Now that you mention it, the whole section of cryonics is a bit thin, I don't reall any of the details but Henson is on record lecturing about the medical ethics as well as the financial ethics about cryonics, though I don't recall anything about the legal aspects beyond inheritance of a "well maybe he's dead, maybe not" last will and testament left behind by the dearly maybe departed. Still the extant article touches on it, maybe additional links to his lectures. There should be a web site dedicated to archiving his work, the guy's old and none of us are going to live forever... Oh wait... Maybe we will. :) SoftwareThing (talk) 19:00, 27 September 2018 (UTC)
