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Originally written by Thuryl:

Anyway, I really don't see how keeping humans working is supposed to be a good thing -- if work were enjoyable enough for most people to do it voluntarily, they wouldn't get paid for it.

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Originally written by Andrew Miller:

I think that's a poor sentiment. Charisma is an enabler, but it's what's at the core of a person that determines how the tool is used. Emperor Augustus was an incredible leader, for example.

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Originally written by Begging For Mercy Makes Me Angry:

Mind, what I meant was that all some noobs are always asking for them.

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Originally written by Begging For Mercy Makes Me Angry:

Because it would not be cool if everyone had one.

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Originally written by Oceanus Delphinus:

Sorry for loss MM, you should be given any title that is not apprentice.

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Originally written by Wise Man is a:

Searching 'Wise Man' and 'Wiseman' returned a bunch of old guys and a middle aged woman somewhere in the page.

Searching my real name returned a bunch of Chinese nerds that bear no resemblance to me because of the striking lack of beards.

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Originally written by Skribbane now? Ask me how.:

i read your story on your website. so useless

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Originally posted by AQUILA:
How could you make such a stupid and obvious mistake?

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In 1989, scientists were asked to estimate the price of a manned Mars mission. They had 90 days to do so, and their report was called the 90-day report.
They proposed and enormous spacecraft, that was supposed to be build in orbit, that should send a group of astronauts in orbit around Mars to let them land on Mars, and when they come back into the craft, it brings them back to earth.
This spacecraft was supposed to run on liquid hydrogen ( H2 ) and liquid oxygen ( O2 ). All supplies were supposed to be brought from earth.

Their result: catastrophic $400 billion.

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Originally written by Duke of Toast:

Terraforming mars is a long way off.

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The most lucrative project right now, would be to get an asteroid mining concern going.

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Originally written by Duke of Toast:

Seriously one asteroid has 30 times the amount of metal than has been mined in all of human history.

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Originally written by Duke of Toast:

The third project would be to build solar power satellites. A long way off, but possible in the next century.

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Originally written by Eagle:

First step - Character

Come up with a character or more first. Decide what personality they will have. Decide what weakness and strengths they have. Give them some personal matters, for example: A boy who hit peoples when he laugh or a girl who pass out when being embarrased.

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Originally written by Eagle:

In your story you have decided to have the strive of immortality as a theme.

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Originally written by Kingy:

Is this kind of thing normal or is this crazy like my mates keep telling me? I'm sure writing a poem in your sleep isnt supposed to happen, is it?

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Originally written by St. Kateus:

I also didn't have a beard when I started posting. Still don't, as a matter of fact. That might be because I'm a girl, though. :P

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Originally written by andrew miller:

Usually, though, suspended animation is used in liturature more as a vehicle for exploring the future in whatever utopian/dystopian form it takes. What's your agenda?

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Originally written by Student of Trinity:

Larry Niven had a whole series of books set in a world where there were a fair number of such revivees. They had essentially no legal rights, and I think they ended up as slaves of the state in order to repay their medical bills, or something like that. Everyone called them 'corpsicles'.

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When will the medical science be sufficient enough to revive someone who asphyxiated? Also, how quickly is the average life expectancy increasing?

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Shortly after death the lack of blood to your brain causes connections in it to start to break down, causing severe (well, you *are* dead at this point...) brain damage. So even if you could "revive" someone, after too much longer than a few minutes there wouldn't be much left to revive. That's part of the reason we can have people who are "alive," but braindead, and will never really "wake up."

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Originally written by Thuryl:

And if he did reawaken, it would most likely be into a world in which everyone he knew was long dead.

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Originally written by Thuryl:

What motivated him to be suspended -- simply a desire to prolong his life, or perhaps to see the future?

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Originally written by Thuryl:

How did he get the money -- was he rich before his death, or did he have to sell everything he owned to afford suspension?

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Originally written by An Upright stranger:

Is this a story set before his body is suspended and about the conflicts in reaching such a decision? Or maybe it is about his reawakening in a new world and the creation of a new life?

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Originally written by Mab:

Nothing grants that, just because there's a claimed method to completely preserve some Tom's body, anyone in the future will have any interest in reviving him.

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Originally written by Mab:

Is there anyone making sure all works fine, or is all the procedure mechanical?

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