EPTWhoever develops it will not keep it from the public. That's just asking for terrible, terrible trouble.
Will Science Unlock Immortality Before We Die? - Page 2
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PineapplePizza
United States749 Posts
Whoever develops it will not keep it from the public. That's just asking for terrible, terrible trouble. | ||
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SheepleArePeopleToo
Sweden73 Posts
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fugs
United States135 Posts
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Chvol
United States200 Posts
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IPA
United States3206 Posts
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Stratos_speAr
United States6959 Posts
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'd have to be really, really pessimistic to think that we won't invent some pretty awesome space travel and possible colonization within the next 100 years. Ingenuity is driven in large part by need. Once or population gets way too pick, human desperation will finally kick in, and morons will realize that we should have invested in space travel back in 2000. Same goes for immortality. Mankind has a never-ending and undefeatable fear of death, so it's almost guaranteed that we'll find a way to stop deaths via natural aging, as well as eliminating most diseases. Only question is when. Could be 10 years. Could be 10,000. No real way to tell, especially since science is progressing so incredibly quickly. | ||
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YumYumGranola
Canada346 Posts
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ooni
Australia1498 Posts
On March 31 2013 14:38 Chvol wrote: if scientific advances don't end up wiping out everybody via engineered viruses etc, we'll have immortality by the end of the century if not sooner. However, we'll also be creating machines which are probably more intelligent than us, even after we've converted ourselves from our biological form into this "immortal" physicality. That's only true if we do not advance in bio-medical engineering. The processing power of a machine only doubles every year. The biological mind has potential to over take a machine if we figure out how to engineer it. I'd say, genetically modified human cyborg will be much more intelligent than a pure machine. On March 31 2013 14:42 IPA wrote: Even if given the opportunity, I would still want to die. Life is grand but immortality? Staleness taken to its furthest possible permutation. Considering your chance of death is still pretty high without aging, you will die before it gets stale. Also permutation of such events, is a projection of a static world. We have developed from wheels to spaceships past century, I doubt it will get stale next 500 years or so, by then most likely you will die from something anyway. | ||
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Uncultured
United States1340 Posts
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heliusx
United States2306 Posts
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PineapplePizza
United States749 Posts
On March 31 2013 14:42 IPA wrote: Even if given the opportunity, I would still want to die. Life is grand but immortality? Staleness taken to its furthest possible permutation. Life gives you plenty of opportunities to die, whether you wish for them or not. Even if you could theoretically live 'forever', a lot of things can happen in only 200 years. | ||
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Velr
Switzerland10974 Posts
But well.. Have fun never doing anything "fun"... No drinks, no smokes, no going out, no breathing "bad" air.... ... ... Immortality sucks. | ||
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Hug-A-Hydralisk
United States174 Posts
On March 31 2013 14:09 Seldentar wrote: 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. Seriously dude if you've just invented a gold mine do you really think that in the world of twitter and Facebook that this would remain a secret? In today's world you can fart in Europe and the United States will know about it in minutes. Secrets are a thing of the past now, just ask the USA and wiki leaks. | ||
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ZackAttack
United States884 Posts
On March 31 2013 13:56 ElvisWayCool wrote: Make everyone immortal, then make them sterile, then kill 1/3 of population. Problem solved? I see nothing wrong with this plan. | ||
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heliusx
United States2306 Posts
On March 31 2013 14:53 Hug-A-Hydralisk wrote: Seriously dude if you've just invented a gold mine do you really think that in the world of twitter and Facebook that this would remain a secret? In today's world you can fart in Europe and the United States will know about it in minutes. Secrets are a thing of the past now, just ask the USA and wiki leaks. Yeah, someone with the brains to make humans immortal would never be smart enough to realize how utterly stupid it would be to make immorality available to anyone with enough money. | ||
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Hug-A-Hydralisk
United States174 Posts
How would anyone know anything about immortality? The Greek gods once said that they envied the mortals because they could die, but those were stories of myth invented by mortals. We know NOTHING about living forever. | ||
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FSUrequiem
United States22 Posts
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Seldentar
United States888 Posts
On March 31 2013 14:53 Hug-A-Hydralisk wrote: Seriously dude if you've just invented a gold mine do you really think that in the world of twitter and Facebook that this would remain a secret? In today's world you can fart in Europe and the United States will know about it in minutes. Secrets are a thing of the past now, just ask the USA and wiki leaks. ??? I never said it would remain a secret, I was just annoyed that you brought illuminati into this when he said nothing of the sort. He was referring to whoever gains control of the technology... | ||
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DarkInfinity
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{CC}StealthBlue
United States41117 Posts
Long answer? Nope. | ||
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