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Do You Want to Live Forever?
Jamie McCarthy writes "In 1918, Gunnery Sergeant Daniel Daly inspired his weary men to attack by yelling, 'come on, you sons of bitches, do you want to live forever?' But how would the world change if we could? This month's Technology Review introduces us to the computer scientist, and self-taught biologist, Aubrey de Grey, who thinks immortality could be within our grasp by 2030. Thinking like an engineer, he's broken aging down into seven specific problems, like cell atrophy and mitochondrial mutation, which he believes can all, in principle, be solved. And he has good reason to think those seven are the only 'bugs' standing in the way of a thousand-year lifespan. De Grey is clearly both a genius and a little nuts, but I'm not sure in what proportion..."
First Highlander Post.
FOREIGN OPERATION DEPARTMENT
,
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK
44/46 WESTERN AVENUE, ASOOKORO
DISTRICT ABUJA NIGERIA
Email= rob_chey02@yahoo.co.in
Dear Good Day,
Compliment of the season
I am Mr Robinson Chey , a Manager at African Development
Bank group, Nigerian branch here in Abuja
However I got your contact through the
international web directory.Recently we discovered a
Dormant Account with a hug amount of Money Valued
USD24,000,000.00 (twenty Four Million Dollars only)
that belongs to one of our late Customer who died in a
plane crash . During our investigation and auditing in
this bank, my department came across a very huge sum of
money belonging to Mr. Carison Hogarth who died along
with his wife and his Two sons and the fund has been
dormant in his account With this Bank without
any claim of the funds in our custody either from his
family or relation before our discovery of this
development.I sent a routine notification to his
forwarding address but got no reply and it were fruitless.
The Banking law here stipulates that if such money
remains unclaimed for Six years, it will be forfeited to
the Bank treasury as an unclaimed bill It is only a
foreigner that can stand as a next of kin and It is upon
this discovery that I decided to contact you to
collaborate with you to pull out this dormant fund. In
order to avert this negative development, I on behalf of
my trusted colleagues now seek your permission to have
you stand in as next of kin to Our late Customer so that
the fund will be released and paid into your account as
the beneficiarys next of kin now that the bank is still
expecting a next of kin or relative of the deceased
In fact we could have done this deal
alone but because of our position in this country as
civil servants, we are not allowed to operate a foreign
account and that would eventually raise an eye brow on
ourside during the time of transfer since we still work
in this bank, this is the actual reason why we
required a second party or fellow who will assist us
forward claims as the next of kin and also provide
either an existing bank account or to set up a new Bank
a/c immediately to receive this fund, even an
empty a/c can also serve for this purpose.
On smooth conclusion of this transaction, you will be
entitled to 25% as gratification for your assisting us,
while 5%will be set aside to take care of expenses on
our both sides that may arise during the time of
transfer and also for telephone bills, and the
remaining 70% will befor me and my partners. What I want
from you is for you to act as the deceased next of kin.
I have in my possession, all the necessary Documents to
successfully accomplish the operation. Bear in mind that
this proposal is 100% risk free.my position as the Branch Manager
guarantees the successful execution of this transaction.
Hope this mail will meet your perfect understanding.
Further Information will be given to you as soon as I
receive your positive response.
Best Regards.
Mr Robinson Chey
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Nuh-uh. Dubya promised me that right after the War of the Five Armies in the Tigris Euphrates Valley of Armageddeon that Jesus would come with lots of angels and there would be a new heaven and a new earth and I would get a new body that could sing hosanneah all the live long day on a street of glass in a gold city with gemstones and rainbows and while Satan burns in Hell forever with Sadam Hussein ... or was that the preacher?
Anyway, there's going to be peace on earth right after the republicans get enough gas to drive their SUVs thru the sky for all eternity, so that proves it.
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