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There is a Time travel fund that pays scientists in the future to pull you from the moment before your death to their present.
See the link
I think I know a way to test this. Simply put a shotgun to the founders’ head and pull the trigger. He should disappear at that very moment. If he
does great if he doesn't I sue to get my $10 bucks back
Time travel fund
http://www.timetravelfund.com/
[duroncrush, Oct 04 2004]
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Not sure what else to say, but it is a fairly direct solution... Hard to tell the reason for it not working though. There are any number of reasons it could fail. It may be a scam, or there may be some unforeseen economic calamity or apocalyptic event. Or the future people may just not like us much. |
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I like the concept of the site. Fishbone, though, for the shotgun idea. |
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//He should disappear at that very moment.// As stated at the <link> the future retrieval agent may substitute a clone for the funeral, so this logic doesn't work. |
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The website says there is no guarantee. So you could not sue for your $10. |
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I used this service back in 1904. Back then, it was only a nickel!
I was diagnosed with a terminal case of gonorrhea. The next day I was zapped out of my horseless carriage, and in to a strange place where they stuck me in my hind side with a needle!. The clap was gone forever!
Now I have herpes simplex 3... Do they take Pay Pal? |
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The idea's kindof flawed...Why would they think $ are worth anything? the $ probably would have collapsed by then. |
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You need an aggressive PR campaign. If you're just some fool committing murder, it doesn't make news. Somehow, you need to be picked up 10,000 (or so) years in the future. Be a Pharaoh or something, and they might try to bring you back. But a random schmoe? No shortage of those. Fish until you start building pyramids. |
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Anyone who paid his $10 for the timetravelfund die yet? If he stays "dead" as opposed mysteriously disappearing, then the fund, or time travel will have failed. |
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Per John Varley, and "Millenium", the folks behind the fund will provide a corpse to substitute for yours. This makes verification challenging. |
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I suspect that the compound interest thing is a myth, and that invested money does not inexorably and exponentially increase in purchasing power over the long term. |
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Sort of done on Red Dwarf, one character, Lister, forgets to turn off the light in his bathroom, gets put into suspended animation, because of circumstances, he doesn't get woken up for three million years, by which time the compound interest on his electricity bill means his local power company owns the world. |
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[spidermother] Ah, "the magic of compound interest." That
word "magic" is a bit concerning. |
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