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Jan 21, 2006

"We know what we are, but know not what we may be." --William Shakespeare

The Long Bet

Wanna bet that by 2050 we will receive intelligent signals from outside our solar system? How about that by the year 2020, tickets for space travel - at least to Moon, will be available over the counter? Designed to foster long-term thinking, and as a forum for focussed discussion, Long Bets is a website that you can make long-term socially significant predictions and place wagers on them. The wagered money is deposited up front, earns interest, and is paid out when the prediction is settled, even if it's 10,000 years into the future.