See, speeding actually makes you live infinitessimaly longer.
"Charles Stross 'borrowed' the name 'githyanki' from GRRM's 'Thousand Worlds' SF setting for a race of monsters he was creating for an official Dungeons and Dragons product in the late 1970s."
Hanging around in a bunker, waiting for the order to destroy civilization (or at least a good chunk of it) tends to be stressful.
@Arken: Again, not the technology - in this case, it's the ideas of the futurists that are stupid.
@Arken:
@Cupajo:
Well, every couple of decades or so, somebody puts one of these things on the market...
@Arken:
Yes.
Sounds like the client takes himself way too seriously.
@crosis101: "72 hours because in the cities that's all the food there is. "
Well, yeah.