X-Message-Number: 1663
Date: 22 Jan 93 17:56:43 EST
From: "A.J. Clifford" <>
Subject: Alcor/OMNI prize funding

At the risk of pre-empting Alcor's reply to the number of people who
have questioned the funding of the OMNI contest - there is a very big
clue in the terms & conditions.

The winner has to have a medical for insurance purposes.  I imagine
this means that the winner (if insurable) will have a policy taken out
on his/her behalf and premiums paid by Alcor, OMNI or both.   
This would cost far less than the $100,000 mooted.

If the winner is uninsurable then the question of finance stands.

In any case the contest is a coup more valuable than the cost of one
suspension.

Looking again at the article it really is a shame that there wasn't at
least one positive photograph used, perhaps an attractive, futuristic
artist impression would have brightened up the whole thing.  (Sad even
about the gory cartoon so unrepresentative of OMNI's style).

And why limited to U.S. residents only?  I find this sort of
parochialism almost unconscionable.


Regards,  AJC

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