Lost/The Hanso Foundation/Life Extension Project

The Life Extension Project is one of the active projects being run by The Hanso Foundation. LEP's goal is the extension of life itself.

Information for this entry is gleaned from The Hanso Foundation.

Information

The grand summation of all the Foundation's work from prevention and wellness, to the development of new gene therapies and the development of young minds is nothing less than the extension of life itself. If it is, indeed, an instinctive human drive — as basic as the need to eat, to sleep, to love — to see mortality itself arrested, the Life-Extension Project humbly accepts the mantle of responsibility to see this done — to push the boundaries of science and technology to see the human race go father than ever before.

One of The Hanso Foundation Life Extension Project's important milestones is Joop, an orangutan and Life Extension Project experimental subject. Joop turned 105, over double the usual lifespan of an orangutan. However, controversy has surrounded the project. In a letter to the Centers for Disease Control, the Director General of the Global Welfare Consortium, Jacques Maillot, expressed his concern over research operations conducted by The Hanso Foundation in sub-Saharan Africa. A new strain of meningococcal disease breached the simian/homo sapiens barrier in the coastal villages of Tanzania. He believes a possible correlation exists between the outbreak of this transgenic disease and the research being conducted on primates in the Foundation's experimental research station in Zanzibar, and the Foundation is using primates to research gene therapies for human use. However, Peter Thompson, an executive of The Hanso Foundation, became Acting Director General of the GWC after Jacques Maillot's removal. Thompson prevented the CDC from intervening, writing that GWC inspection teams were welcomed to the Zanzibar Experimental Station and discovered nothing wrong.

Press Release

THE HANSO LIFE-EXTENSION PROJECT CELEBRATES A MILESTONE

Thanks to The Hanso Foundation Life Extension Project, Joop is the world's oldest orangutan! He's just turned 105!

COPEHAGEN, DENMARK, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21ST, 2005:

The Hanso Foundation Life-Extension Project celebrated a milestone in the 105th birthday of experimental subject 626. Experimental subject 626, known to Hanso Life Extension project researchers as "Joop," is an orangutan originally harvested by British explorers in the early 1900s.

"The Hanso Foundation feels it is important to let the world know of its progress in this vital era — it is the will of our founder and Chief Executive Officer Alvar Hanso that all concerned citizens of the world understand the breakthroughs being made by the Foundation."

The Lost Experience

• Global Welfare Consortium Letters: Go to "Joop's Corner". Enter anything as a personal message for Joop. An image will appear and you will need to connect the circles by clicking on them.
  • A letter will appear from Jacques Maillot, Director General of the Global Welfare Consortium Executive Committee, to Dr. Roderick Johnson, Clinical Director at the Centers for Disease Control. Maillot outlines his concerns about The Hanso Foundation's research and an outbreak of a transgenic disease. He requests that the CDC intervene. Clicking on the letter will bring up a new letter.
  • A letter will appear from Peter Thompson, Acting Director General of the Global Health Consortium, to Dr. Roderick Johnson, Clinical Director at the Centers for Disease Control. Thompson apologizes for the former Director General, Maillot, and his alarmist tone about The Hanso Foundation's research. He asks to withdrawal their request for CDC intervention into the affairs of The Hanso Foundation, saying that their inspection team were welcomed to The Hanso Foundation's Experimental Station and found nothing wrong. Jack Thompson's name will be circled in red and, clicking that, will bring up new text.
  • Text appears with a voice repeating the text: The Hanso Foundation, setting world speed records for subverting authority.
• Access Denied: Go to "Active Projects" -> "Life Extension Project" -> click on the word "mortality" and enter "recluse" as the password (you may have to go through this link first). Persephone will contact you and ask, "WHY EXTEND YOUR LIFE TO LIVE IN HIDING?". An envelope will appear with "Address Unknown" and "Return to Sender" written on it. Clicking the envelope will reveal the letter inside, written by Dr. Eliza Vasquez to Alvar Hanso. Dr. Vasquez writes that all her letters to Alvar Hanso have been returned unopened, and so hired a private investigator to find him. She talks of him collapsing from a myocardial infection while in Madrid, but he demanded no blood be drawn and that he be discharged once his personal physician and staff arrived. However, she did draw blood and believes he may suffer a possibly fatal heart attack in the near future. Clicking the bottom of the letter will bring up three security cameras at The Hanso Foundation in Copenhagen, Denmark: Alvar Hanso's empty parking space, Alvar Hanso's desk, and the doors to Alvar Hanso's parlor. The timestamp of the footage will progress day by day with no change in the footage or can be fast-forwarded by clicking on the monitors. From 2004 to 2006, the only changes are that some objects are removed from Hanso's desk, but there's no sign Alvar Hanso has ever appeared. Persephone will contact you, wondering, "IS HE A RECLUSE OR IS HE A PRISONER? WHY WOULD HE ALLOW SUCH EVIL THINGS TO BE DONE IN HIS NAME?" Clicking on the monitors will bring up Persephone again.
  
  DISTURBING, ISN'T IT?
  AND THERE'S MORE.
  SO MUCH MORE. I CAN HELP
  CONNECT THE DOTS...
  
  Clicking on that will bring up:
  
  DO YOU WANT TO KNOW THE REST?
  THEN ENTER THE NAME OF THE DIRECTOR OF THE VIK
  INSTITUTE... ARMAND...?
  
  Enter "zander". Persephone will respond:
  
  COOL. THANKS.
  SORRY FOR ALL THE CLOAK AND DAGGER.
  BUT I GOTTA BE CAREFUL WHO I TRUST...
  
  I THINK MITTELWERK IS THE KEY TO ALL THIS --
  I NEED TO FIND OUT WHAT HE IS UP TO WITH ALL OF THESE PROGRAMS --
  I'M GONNA
  
  However, the connection crashes before Persephone can finish. A message appears from The Hanso Foundation saying the site has been hacked by malicious infiltrators seeking to blemish the good work of many dedicated researchers. Until a legal investigation is completed, the site will no longer be accessible to the public. You will no longer be able to access the website.