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This would bring another reason for the billionaire in the 1997 movie Contact, to go to space to live just a little longer :P

• blacksmith_tb 10y ago
  A bit more like Elysium[1], I'd say... 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elysium_(film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elysium_(film) That said, being exposed to a lot of high-energy ionizing radiation and lengthening one's teleomeres doesn't sound like a good combination...
  • teraflop 10y ago
    In Elysium, living in space wasn't directly connected to a longer lifespan. It just so happened that the elite segment of the population was able to afford both. Arthur C. Clarke's short story "The Secret" is a bit more directly relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_(short_story) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_(short_story)
• delecti 10y ago
  He was dying of cancer, the last thing he needed was longer telomeres. :P
• Paul-ish 10y ago
  Go fast enough and you can live longer than everyone else in earth years. Watch those financial investments pay off.
  • ars 10y ago
    > Watch those financial investments pay off. You might find these papers on Interstellar finance interesting: https://www.princeton.edu/~pkrugman/interstellar.pdf https://www.princeton.edu/~pkrugman/interstellar.pdf http://www.espenhaug.com/SpaceTimeFLong.pdf http://www.espenhaug.com/SpaceTimeFLong.pdf
    • vkreso 10y ago
      Nice one! Thanks