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The likeliest way to make money on investments is patience. Should you have the capability to be patient for, say, 145 years you should do quite well on your investments.
Hydrogen Sulfide has been shown to put mice in suspended animation. Imagine if you could put yourself in such a state when
you reach the age of say 78 or so.
With scientific progress, by the time you request to be re-animated, you should have amassed a bit of a fortune, ceteras paraben. - that being the fly in the ointment. You may need a translator to speak to your beneficiaries.
For the sake of this idea, we could assume that the dominant political parties continue their policy of educating the public without enlightening them.
Possibility of suspended animation
http://news.bbc.co..../nature/4469793.stm
They plan to step up testing over the next 4 years. [Zimmy, Apr 27 2005]
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Your wife, Sleeping Beauty, is now married to some haggard, skinny little guy with a funny voice. Apparently he used to be called Prince. |
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You wake up to find you are now the richest mouse in history. |
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Prince. At least it would be someone with a talent I respected. Perhaps he could teach the great great grandkids something I couldn't. (funny aside, my kids at 4 1/2 are starting to sing along with Bob Dylan in the car (not that he's in the car personally))
I was thinking mostly along the lines of an odd trust fund for your great great grandkids to pay for college with. |
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It could make the prison systems very inexspensive and easy to manage. |
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When you come out you're still not very employable, but you wouldn't become a better criminal from just being there. |
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Preheated in science fiction, hardly an original idea. |
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I must program a hot key to say that for me, I need it so often...... |
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//Hydrogen Sulfide has been shown to put mice in suspended animation// You're going to need some strong deodorant when you wake up... |
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If I could suspend my life for a while I'd take a nap for forty years, then move in with my son. I could wake him up by bouncing on his (and his wife's) bed at six in the morning. I'd also hide sandwiches down the back of his sofa and draw on his walls. |
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And your son would be wondering why a grown man would do those things. |
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This technology already exists. Many
years ago, I put on the rented
videocassette of "The Adventures of
Baron Munchausen". Shortly after it
began, I awoke and time had moved
forward by about eight hours. |
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Yeah, I keep doing that when my son brings home LOTR DVDs. |
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"When the Sleeper Wakes" + intent = one scary thought. |
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A spin-off: You’re frozen immediately after death, but no death certificate is issued. Your estate argues that future science could possibly resurrect you, so you’re not yet legally dead. Your living will stipulates that the attempted (and unsuccessful) resurrection is to be performed the day after death taxes are abolished.
Which will be, alas, the day after Armageddon. |
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the part I don't get about having yourself frozen when you die is this: what's the incentive for people in the future to thaw you out? |
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Archaeology. Like todays "Jurassic Park", only in 2 million years it will be "Human Park". |
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//what's the incentive for people in the future to thaw you out// Saves you going down to the Kwik-E Mart for a TV dinner?
This was the subject of one (or more) of a series of sci-fi novels I read at least twenty years ago. Corpsicals - put into long-term space missions? Ray Harrison? |
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