methuselah

Sorry to be 'that guy', but this as old as Methuselah and not in any way related to tech...

There's an old joke (and programming exercise) about how long Methuselah would collect Social Security...

It's a fund raising scheme by the Methuselah Foundation where everyone pledges to give at least $100/month for the next 25 years.

I've been to the Ancient Bristlecone Pine forest in Inyo County, CA where the Methuselah tree lives.

> Despite Microsoft’s purchase of Skype, Messenger is still going today, a little Methuselah wandering in the Microsoft product mausoleum.

The Methuselah Foundation has funded one of the research groups interested in comparative studies of the genetics of longevity, helping them to obtain the resources to sequence bowhead whales.

That this state of affairs has changed dramatically is due in no small part to the efforts of the Methuselah Foundation and the networking that took place as a direct consequence of the existence of a research prize.

The Methuselah Foundation still runs the Mprize, but is presently focused on speeding up organ tissue engineering through the New Organ Prize: working to ensure that patient-specific organs built from stem cells exist soon rather than twenty years to thirty years from now.

As foreshadowed by Heinlein in Methuselah's Children...in 1958 "Yes, yes," agreed Hardy.

For example the "meths" (short for Methuselah) in altered carbon, who achieve immortality by making backups of their brains that can be spawned to cloned bodies.

In the "Future History" series (specifically, Methuselah's Children ), we learn that the first effective rejuvenation technique was to transfuse in younger blood.

Heinlein, "Methuselah's Children" (pretty good, required to understand "Time Enough for Love") Richard K.

After he became the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked faithfully with God 300 years and had other sons and daughters.

This is one reason I can't buy the performance-driven reasoning for using Methuselah's hand-me-down modes; modern modes are safer and likely faster.

Total: 200,000 USD After Steam Cut: 140,000 USD And now you need to get lightning to strike every year to maintain your annual income so you can retire before you're Methuselah.