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When I say we I mean that from an egocentric point of view if you're 20 like me! ^_^
(Not quite sure about what everyone's age is, so post on behalf of YOUR age like me)
So I'll be in my prime pretty soon, then apparently ill blink and already be 30 years old. Ive already kind of noticed how fast it will be, since highschool ended all my lifes goals and obstacles wont happen for 5 to 6 years, in the mean time I'll just work, sleep, eat, do lots of women, rinse and repeat. Before I even know it my kids will have kids and ill be dead, OR WILL I?!?!?
I've watched a special on Through The Wormhole with Morgan Freeman about Science reversing aging and ultimately making mankind immortal, do you believe that we'll get there in our lifetime? I know for a fact TL has some smart peeps, so what do you guys think? Do you believe that you'll live forever??
I am almost but not completely convinced that I might live forever but I intend to do so, maybe cryonic freezing will work when I die... I'll have to be like a dragoon :D
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I hope so, but probably not. As it is right now, death from any cause other than simple aging is the norm, so even if aging itself is prevented, which itself is highly unlikely to happen in this century, you're going to die some way or another eventually.
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Certainly not for atleast 100-300 years, so no we won't be alive.
But why is immortality good when we can't even live on other planets? If everyone was immortal, the earth would be overpopulated very very fast and resources, food, rain forest and such would get ruined pretty quickly.
Just hope you won't be alive.
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On March 31 2013 13:53 Vallz wrote:
Certainly not for atleast 100-300 years, so no we won't be alive.
But why is immortality good when we can't even live on other planets? If everyone was immortal, the earth would be overpopulated very very fast and resources, food, rain forest and such would get ruined pretty quickly.
Just hope you won't be alive.
Make everyone immortal, then make them sterile, then kill 1/3 of population. Problem solved?
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Unfortunately not
We will probably have a temporary fix in a few hundred years. and then a good fix in a few thousand
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On March 31 2013 13:53 Vallz wrote:
Certainly not for atleast 100-300 years, so no we won't be alive.
But why is immortality good when we can't even live on other planets? If everyone was immortal, the earth would be overpopulated very very fast and resources, food, rain forest and such would get ruined pretty quickly.
Just hope you won't be alive.
You assume people would populate just as readily and frequently if we removed the "ticking of inevitable death." I have a feeling culture would change away from that (to an extent) given the ability to avoid aging. Other ways of dying would likely leave us with a dwindling population, believe it or not.
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No, even if they do i don't think they will let public know about it.
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I doubt it. And even if such technology did come into being, I doubt it would be available to anyone except the hyper-rich. If anyone's read Altered Carbon, you know what kind of social stratification I'm talking about.
Also, I used to think that living forever was unquestionably a good thing. I no longer believe this.
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On March 31 2013 13:57 aksfjh wrote:Show nested quote +On March 31 2013 13:53 Vallz wrote:
Certainly not for atleast 100-300 years, so no we won't be alive.
But why is immortality good when we can't even live on other planets? If everyone was immortal, the earth would be overpopulated very very fast and resources, food, rain forest and such would get ruined pretty quickly.
Just hope you won't be alive. You assume people would populate just as readily and frequently if we removed the "ticking of inevitable death." I have a feeling culture would change away from that (to an extent) given the ability to avoid aging. Other ways of dying would likely leave us with a dwindling population, believe it or not.
We would be like the nobles from Noblesse x)
But another thing is, we don't know if it will cost (money/currency) to achieve this immortality, if it's achievable.
So, therefore there would be a lot of jelousy, more murders, more crimes.
Who says somebody is gonna give 7 billion people immortality. (I don´t know much about it, but like the universe is now, everything costs.)
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On March 31 2013 13:58 Aelfric wrote:
No, even if they do i don't think they will let public know about it.
Who's they? This is not an illuminati thread.
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On March 31 2013 13:59 Iranon wrote:
I doubt it. And even if such technology did come into being, I doubt it would be available to anyone except the hyper-rich. If anyone's read Altered Carbon, you know what kind of social stratification I'm talking about.
Also, I used to think that living forever was unquestionably a good thing. I no longer believe this.
When I was younger I used to feel the same way. When I was around 16 or so I was so scared of dying, but then I thought about the alternative of living forever and I found that I definitely wouldn't be happy with that. This kind of stemmed from me being an Agnostic and not being able to comprehend non-existence. Note the irony of trying to comprehend non-existence. I have made peace over the possibility of not existing or living forever. So I have pretty much become content with dying and nothing happening or dying and going to some stupid heaven type thing. To me heaven just seems like a type of living forever which seems boring.
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I hope not. Because the only people who will be able to afford it will probably be ones who don't really deserve it.
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On March 31 2013 14:00 Hug-A-Hydralisk wrote:Show nested quote +On March 31 2013 13:58 Aelfric wrote:
No, even if they do i don't think they will let public know about it. Who's they? This is not an illuminati thread.
They being whoever gains control of the technology... Who the fuck ever said anything about illuminati...???
To answer OP I don't want to live forever in this body on this planet, and I wouldn't be surprised if it is possible before we die.
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On March 31 2013 14:00 Hug-A-Hydralisk wrote:Show nested quote +On March 31 2013 13:58 Aelfric wrote:
No, even if they do i don't think they will let public know about it. Who's they? This is not an illuminati thread.
Neither is this a lose your common sense thread either but thats beside the point. Maybe not letting the public know about it is a bit hard considering the fact that someone is living for 200 years, but giving it to the public is another thing.
Also to answer the op, no. We will all die.
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On March 31 2013 14:00 Vallz wrote:Show nested quote +On March 31 2013 13:57 aksfjh wrote:On March 31 2013 13:53 Vallz wrote:
Certainly not for atleast 100-300 years, so no we won't be alive.
But why is immortality good when we can't even live on other planets? If everyone was immortal, the earth would be overpopulated very very fast and resources, food, rain forest and such would get ruined pretty quickly.
Just hope you won't be alive. You assume people would populate just as readily and frequently if we removed the "ticking of inevitable death." I have a feeling culture would change away from that (to an extent) given the ability to avoid aging. Other ways of dying would likely leave us with a dwindling population, believe it or not. We would be like the nobles from Noblesse x) But another thing is, we don't know if it will cost (money/currency) to achieve this immortality, if it's achievable. So, therefore there would be a lot of jelousy, more murders, more crimes. Who says somebody is gonna give 7 billion people immortality. (I don´t know much about it, but like the universe is now, everything costs.)
We don't even give 7 billion people access to clean drinking water despite having the supply to do so... Also, the way populations are already segregated by socioeconomic factors, I doubt we would experience an increase in murders and crimes.
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A viable way of making it work before we die? Nope, I doubt it.
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On March 31 2013 13:46 Hug-A-Hydralisk wrote:
When I say we I mean that from an egocentric point of view if you're 20 like me! ^_^
(Not quite sure about what everyone's age is, so post on behalf of YOUR age like me)
So I'll be in my prime pretty soon, then apparently ill blink and already be 30 years old. Ive already kind of noticed how fast it will be, since highschool ended all my lifes goals and obstacles wont happen for 5 to 6 years, in the mean time I'll just work, sleep, eat, do lots of women, rinse and repeat. Before I even know it my kids will have kids and ill be dead, OR WILL I?!?!?
I've watched a special on Through The Wormhole with Morgan Freeman about Science reversing aging and ultimately making mankind immortal, do you believe that we'll get there in our lifetime? I know for a fact TL has some smart peeps, so what do you guys think? Do you believe that you'll live forever??
I am almost but not completely convinced that I might live forever but I intend to do so, maybe cryonic freezing will work when I die... I'll have to be like a dragoon :D
Well, I certainly hope they do it soon. Imagine those kinds of programs without Morgan Freeman, would you ever watch them?
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