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With thanks to Deb Geisler, check out the Time Travel Fund.

Salient quotes:

Q: How does this help me?
A: The concept is that one day, it may be possible for people living far in the future to retrieve you from your current frame of reference (their past - your present) and bring you into the future (their present - your future.)

Q: Why would they want to?
A: That is the purpose of the fund. The simple answer is, we pay them to bring you into the future.

Q: When will I be retrieved?
A: We don't know. There are several possible scenarios we can guess at, and possibly more we can't. Here are a couple of possibilities:

* You could be retrieved seconds before your recorded point of death. This brings up several points: By retrieving you right before your recorded "death" it reduces the chance of any Star Trek[tm] type paradoxes. Perhaps a "clone" of your body will be grown and inserted back in time to your point of death to take your place for the funeral. This possibility also assumes that by then medical science will have advanced to the point where you can be revived, and your body rebuilt to a younger, stronger state. Just think, you may one day wake up 1000 years in the future, a young, healthy and physically 18 years old, with several hundred years of life ahead of you.

* You are retrieved, given the grand tour, and then put back to when you were retrieved, either with or without your memories of the future intact. This may or may not be desirable to you.

* You are retrieved, and live a normal life in the future. Back at the time of retrieval, your disappearance is treated as an unsolved mystery.

(no subject)

With thanks to Deb Geisler, check out the Time Travel Fund.

Salient quotes:

Q: How does this help me?
A: The concept is that one day, it may be possible for people living far in the future to retrieve you from your current frame of reference (their past - your present) and bring you into the future (their present - your future.)

Q: Why would they want to?
A: That is the purpose of the fund. The simple answer is, we pay them to bring you into the future.

Q: When will I be retrieved?
A: We don't know. There are several possible scenarios we can guess at, and possibly more we can't. Here are a couple of possibilities:

* You could be retrieved seconds before your recorded point of death. This brings up several points: By retrieving you right before your recorded "death" it reduces the chance of any Star Trek[tm] type paradoxes. Perhaps a "clone" of your body will be grown and inserted back in time to your point of death to take your place for the funeral. This possibility also assumes that by then medical science will have advanced to the point where you can be revived, and your body rebuilt to a younger, stronger state. Just think, you may one day wake up 1000 years in the future, a young, healthy and physically 18 years old, with several hundred years of life ahead of you.

* You are retrieved, given the grand tour, and then put back to when you were retrieved, either with or without your memories of the future intact. This may or may not be desirable to you.

* You are retrieved, and live a normal life in the future. Back at the time of retrieval, your disappearance is treated as an unsolved mystery.