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by madrox 2174 days ago
This is actually wild to me. How is it being powered? Did they just pay a hosting provider decades in advance?
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Two members stayed behind. I heard recently they still respond to email.

>two group members were briefed about a side mission. They would remain on Earth – the last surviving members – and their job was to maintain the Heaven’s Gate website exactly as it was on the day the last suicides took place.

>And for two decades, the lone Gaters have diligently continued their mission, answered queries, paid bills and dealt with problems.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/two-decades-after-h...

Imagine missing the rapture to do sysadmin and PR. Maybe they are in hell.
They didn't drink the Kool-aid. lol.
> They didn't drink the Kool-aid. lol.

Fun fact: the folks at Jonestown didn't drink Kool-Aid either, it was grape Flavor Aid.

Alan Moore wrote a comedy comic where a traumatized Cool-Aid Man is publically accused of involvement at Jonestown and insists on the record in a tell all interview it was the Flavor Aid man who committed the crime.