The full description of this claim is as follows:
The death rate (per hundred thousand persons) will drop by 90%, relative to 1994, in any year through 2050. The measurement population is people in the United States, who are at least one year old. Persons in suspended animation (or cryonic suspension, reduced metabolism, etc.), if they are expected to remain suspended for a month or more, count as dead while suspended; they are omitted from the calculation after the year of "death".
This claim will be judged 12/31/2053.
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Idea Futures market (the two prices are the buy and sell prices for 'funny
money' bets). You can learn more about this market by pointing your world
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The current odds for all questions on the market are as follows:
$Cdn [misc] 25 - 87% Cdn$ below $.65 US by June 95
3SAT [sci] 35 - 40% Good 3SAT Algorithm by 2020
Am30 [misc] 20 - 40% 30 amends. to US Const by 2000
CFsn [sci] 8 - 15% Cold Fusion
Canc [sci] 30 - 40% Cancer Cured by 2010
Cryo [sci] 15 - 19% Cryonics Catches On by 2000
Ferm [sci] 1 - 70% Fermat's Last Theorem resolved
Immo [sci] 30 - 49% Immortality by 2050
Moon [sci] 30 - 36% Moonbase by 2025
Neut [sci] 15 - 25% Neutrino mass >0
QueS [misc] 15 - 25% Quebec separation
SLvl [sci] 15 - 25% 1 m rise in Sea Level
SSTO [sci] 25 - 30% Single Stage to Orbit
Stew [sci] 13 - 15% Nanotech Stewart platform
Terr [misc] 45 - 46% Nuke capable Terrorists
Time [sci] 5 - 15% Time Travel
Univ [sci] 14 - 30% Eventual Collapse of Universe
Full descriptions and conditions of these claims are available at
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