Check out the Time Travel Fund who will offer you time travel for the princely sum of $10.
This is how they say it works:
“Current scientific theory states that Time Travel may be possible, however the technology is a long way off, perhaps hundreds of years in the future. Now, assume it does become possible in say, 500 years. As with any technology, Time Travel will get less expensive as time goes on. Just as the price of a VCR has dropped to less than $70 from the several hundred dollars it cost just ten years ago, Time Travel, once it becomes feasible, will initially be very expensive yet it will become more and more economical as time goes by.”
“We establish a fund in current time. You make a small contribution to the fund, and in a few hundred years that small amount grows to a very large amount. From that fund, moneys will be taken and used to retrieve you, perhaps seconds after you join, perhaps even moments before your recorded death, perhaps some other point in your lifetime. Further, the fund may even pay to have you “rejuvenated” medically (assuming this is scientifically possible at that time,) and support you financially for a number of years. (Note: Retrieving you just before the moment of death is just one possible scenario, but one that would avoid any Star Trek(TM) type paradoxes. There are an unlimited number of other possibilities, and we do not know what they will do, we can only make reasonably informed guesses.)”
As always there are Disclaimers:
” There is no time limit to how long this fund may exist. It may take five hundred years, or it may take five thousand years or more for the technology to become viable. It also may be possible that the technology will never become viable, or that the human race will bomb itself back to the stone age. We don’t know the answers, we can just hope for the best.”
This is how they say it works:
“Current scientific theory states that Time Travel may be possible, however the technology is a long way off, perhaps hundreds of years in the future. Now, assume it does become possible in say, 500 years. As with any technology, Time Travel will get less expensive as time goes on. Just as the price of a VCR has dropped to less than $70 from the several hundred dollars it cost just ten years ago, Time Travel, once it becomes feasible, will initially be very expensive yet it will become more and more economical as time goes by.”
“We establish a fund in current time. You make a small contribution to the fund, and in a few hundred years that small amount grows to a very large amount. From that fund, moneys will be taken and used to retrieve you, perhaps seconds after you join, perhaps even moments before your recorded death, perhaps some other point in your lifetime. Further, the fund may even pay to have you “rejuvenated” medically (assuming this is scientifically possible at that time,) and support you financially for a number of years. (Note: Retrieving you just before the moment of death is just one possible scenario, but one that would avoid any Star Trek(TM) type paradoxes. There are an unlimited number of other possibilities, and we do not know what they will do, we can only make reasonably informed guesses.)”
As always there are Disclaimers:
” There is no time limit to how long this fund may exist. It may take five hundred years, or it may take five thousand years or more for the technology to become viable. It also may be possible that the technology will never become viable, or that the human race will bomb itself back to the stone age. We don’t know the answers, we can just hope for the best.”
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Congratulations to Jill, Gareth and Tomos who now have a new arrival in the family.
Owen was born 12 September at 4.00am weighing 9lb 6oz.
Owen was born 12 September at 4.00am weighing 9lb 6oz.
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Me and John had some thoughts about a P2P VOIP solution…
We thought about it a lot…
We thought about it for too long…
The people who brought KaZaA have just released Skype, a true P2P VOIP solution that uses the same network structures as KaZaA and Gnutella. They’ve work hard to make it firewall and NAT friendly and it looks really good. As yet there are only versions for XP and 2000 - and I don’t know if it runs under Wine on Linux. I must get it installed at the weekend and give it a go.
We thought about it a lot…
We thought about it for too long…
The people who brought KaZaA have just released Skype, a true P2P VOIP solution that uses the same network structures as KaZaA and Gnutella. They’ve work hard to make it firewall and NAT friendly and it looks really good. As yet there are only versions for XP and 2000 - and I don’t know if it runs under Wine on Linux. I must get it installed at the weekend and give it a go.
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191 view(s)We had a brilliant day at Warwick Castle yesterday. The sun was out and they had a Mediaeval festival on - with displays of fighting knights and stories told by the Ratcatcher (one of Billys highlights).rn rnI haven’t been since I was a kid myself and the dungeon is still as eerie as I remember it being. Due to the amounts of stairs and Annie being too little, myself and Paula had to take shifts walking Billy up to the top of towers. He insisted on climbing to the top of every tower with each of us and unsurprisingly fell asleep the instant we got back to the car. rnrnIt’s a little bit pricey and they stopped serving food at 4.00pm which is a bit rubbish when you have kids and they are actually open until 6.00pm. Nevertheless we had a great day out - and we’ll definitely be back.rnrnWe got Billy a suit of armour that he now wears constantly. He says he is a “bad Knight” and that he is going to wear his suit of armour everyday because unlike the Knights at the castle, he is “real”.
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169 view(s)If you use messenger you may have noticed that Microsoft have started sending out the following notification at startup: “.NET Messenger Service Staff: You are running a version of messenger that requires an immediate security update. Please visit http://messenger.msn.com/Help/Upgrades.aspx to complete the update.”
If, like me, you don’t use messenger (I use Trillian on Windows and KMess on Linux) this is bad news. On 15th October Microsoft will block all non-upgraded (i.e. non-Microsoft only) users leaving Linux users in the dark and Trillian users somewhat miffed. I’m sure patches will ultimately arrive - but until then we’re a bit goosed.
Maybe it’s time I switched to ICQ?
Rant over.
If, like me, you don’t use messenger (I use Trillian on Windows and KMess on Linux) this is bad news. On 15th October Microsoft will block all non-upgraded (i.e. non-Microsoft only) users leaving Linux users in the dark and Trillian users somewhat miffed. I’m sure patches will ultimately arrive - but until then we’re a bit goosed.
Maybe it’s time I switched to ICQ?
Rant over.
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