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The Methuselah Mouse Prize
David Gobel
President
Aubrey de Grey
Chief Architect – Co-Founder
The Methuselah Foundation
www.methuselahmouse.org
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Money – Lots and Lots of Money!
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Today:Penalties if you look like you’re doing what you’re really doing
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Moths around the wrong flame
It’s the rare person indeed who doesn’t eventually “follow the money”
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Need a way to Change SocietyChange Society from Caution to Enthusiastic Cheering
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Your friendly neighborhood black hole
Prize Dynamics - $1,000 a week
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Prizes Generate Accelerated/increased funding (16:1) - huge media - cheering fans - drama
• Longitude Prize – Impossible – Like Perpetual Motion• French Academy of Sciences – Highly unlikely• Orteig Prize – Just A matter of time – Spirit of St. Louis• Xprize –You’ve GOT to be kidding –Private Space Travel?
Prizes enjoy a 100 % success rate as a catalyst for the impossible
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Moral Hazard: “Let the other guy contribute –I can take the pill whether I contribute or not…”
“Telethon” Style Tote board
•SETI? – Drake Equation•Lifeline Conjecture – Roll your own estimates•This is your life – take it or leave it•Well, at LEAST do it for your kids!
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Within 7 years the prize will be at $10,000,000 and growing
WWW.METHUSELAHMOUSE.ORG
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Must be an INTERNATIONAL Competition - to bring out the big money! Why? It puts National Pride (and budget $$ on the table. Contact Aubrey or Dave Gobel to see how to get involved!
• Richard CutlerRichard Cutler• Rich MillerRich Miller• Rick WeindruchRick Weindruch• Christian SellChristian Sell• And now…YOU are And now…YOU are
Invited!Invited!
Competing Researchers