Posted on 06/03/2019 7:23:21 AM PDT by bitt
IT'S simply not enough for billionaires to have everything they've ever wanted – they need eternity to enjoy it, too.
At least a dozen of the world's richest men have ploughed millions into bizarre ways to live forever. Here are five of the weirdest.
1) Cure for ageing
A number of billionaires are putting their cash to good use by trying to find a "cure" for ageing.
They include Jeff Bezos, the world's richest man, who has pumped money into Unity, a California company that hopes to stop the ageing process.
It's already raised over $116 million in funding and is trying to find a way to block cells that cause arthritis and loss of sight.
Paypal founder Peter Thiel has also ploughed cash into Unity having spoken about finding a cure for ageing for years.
"Most diseases are linked to aging," Thiel said at Web Summit in 2016.
"You have a one in a thousand chance of getting cancer in the next year at age 30, you have a one in ten chance of getting cancer in the next year at age 80.
"So we definitely want to find a cure for cancer, maybe if we find a cure for aging we cure cancer along the way."
2) Computer chip in your brain
Tesla and SpaceX boss Elon Musk reckons he'll need a computer chip strapped to his brain to survive beyond 2100.
The billionaire has been developing the technology, called Neuralink, because he thinks humans must become one with machines in order to survive being replaced by artificial intelligence.
Musk's plan to "save the human race" involves wiring computer chips into our minds to merge us with artificial intelligence. He says brain-computer interfaces will turn humans into a genius super race.
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here we are
born to be kings
we’re the princes of the universe
As long as our "betters" think it works, they will believe they need an unlimited supply of nameless, untraceable and unwanted children being smuggled into this country.
Hard enough to control the borders when it's just business, impossible as long as our "Betters" think it is quite literally a mater of life and death, the only life that matters, their own.
Yeah, the phrase “extreme measures” doesn’t even begin to touch on what’s being done to keep her above room temperature.
Read and seen it...”Altered Carbon” will be another Leftist ‘how-to’ instead of cautionary tale ala “1984”.
To insanity and beyond. Fools and their money.
This speaks volumes about the mindset of these people, and demonstrates why, as smart and successful as tech billionaires may be, no one should be looking to them for any sort of moral leadership. We would all like to live longer, but blowing millions of dollars on half-baked schemes like this demonstrates that they are unwilling to accept the fact of their own mortality, which in turn demonstrates a profound lack of maturity. It’s as though they cannot conceive of a world without them, an all of them are too old for that.
And the one thing that stands a chance, spiritual enlightenment, is probably too boring for these types, I would guess. Oh well. They could not take it with them anyways.
The Beginning of the Borg.. Tiresome Cubes.
Even more tiresome leftists. d;^)
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