On 1/31/06, <b class="gmail_sendername"><a href="http://kevinfreels.com">kevinfreels.com</a></b> <<a href="mailto:kevin@kevinfreels.com">kevin@kevinfreels.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
It led me to another idea. Has anyone considered something similar to the<br>X-prize for cryonics? Imagine a trust that was paid into out of life<br>insurance as people passed away. This trust would pay out say 10% to the
<br>first group to bring back a squirrel after 6 months, 25% to the first to<br>bring back a dog after a year, and 65% to whomever brings back the first<br>human. This pot would continuously grow as more people were preserved.
</blockquote><div><br>Is cryonics an allowable treatment for the Methuselah Mouse Prize? I'm not sure if it's in the spirit of the competition, but from a cursory glance of their site it doesn't seem to be explicitly prohibited.
<br><br><a href="http://mprize.org/">http://mprize.org/</a><br><br>The any case, the Methuselah Mouse Prize structure could be a useful model. Researchers compete to beat the previous longevity record for mice and get a percentage of the prize pot based on how much they beat the record by.
<br><br>-- Neil<br></div><br></div><br>