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A buddy of mine thinks that because everything is moving so fast nowadays because of technology and communication that immortality will be attainable within our lifetime (say sometime within the next 70 years?). I, however, think hes delusional and spends too much time indoors. The more likely to happen would be a war/weapon that sends humanity back 200 years by the year 2012. Thoughts? |
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tell him to cut back on the weedage. |
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even if someone could devise a way of making people immortal, the government would assassinate them and steal the technology so that they could pull a microsoft and pretend they're somehow inventing new ways of lengthening human life every six months and as long as you keep buying their upgrades you can stay healthy. would anybody like to buy the film rights to my book? |
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you both can be right, but you are more likely to be right. |
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tell him to cut back on the wedgies, rather... |
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the only way immortality would be attainable within my lifetime, would be if i was immortal. |
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There are some scientists who believe that there are people alive today who will live to be 2000 years old... they think that, using stem-cell research (they have been testing Rats (of course) using adult rat stem-cells), they can prolong life and then stay one step ahead of death while they develop the technology to prolong life further and further. Interesting since we're already overcrowded and the countryside is being constantly eaten into to make ugly new homes. They would definitely have to ban procreation if this occurred. |
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There was a documentary on, I think BBC (Horizon or something similar) about living forever. I think it was called "Living Forever" where they talked about living forever and stuff. Something about stem cells or t cells or some cells that fray with each division. Or maybe they weren't cells. Maybe they were toffee apples. No, toffee apples don't fray. Must've been DNA or RNA or something like RNA or DNA. RSPCA maybe. *goes home* |
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i wouldn't mind to be alive for the next 1000 years or so.. |
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the so-called oldest person in the world is only called the oldest because the guinness book of records people say so. the guinness people exclude anyone who doesnt have their original birth certificate, and the older you get the more time you have to loose it in. there are many people round the world who claim they or someone they know is up to 200 years old, but since it cant be proven they are not counted. |
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"They would definitely have to ban procreation if this occurred. " as for the u.s., i don't think bush would allow the use of any sort of birth-control... so they would probably have to feed the deceased (or homosexuals, immigrants, non-caucasians, and the impoverished) to the industrial livestock. the cows would be fed exclusively the tired, poor and huddled masses instead of grass or other cows, which would maximize economic growth, remove the need for farm subsidies, decrease the unwanted excess population and protect our freedom. and if you say otherwise, you're with the terrists you partisan liberal scum. the rest of my plan for the future can be read in the pamphlet, "a modest prop. 254" or "applied soylent engineering" |
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your mate is a dolt. |
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in light of recent developments, we've bumped the retirement age up to 90065 years old. |
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Yes, and of course the first term of his administration was marked by him sending Anti-Abortions and Anti-Contraceptionists to global conferences etc, threatening to cut aid to countries where contraception is legal... nothing like mixing Politics and Religion together -- the founding forefathers will be turning in their graves. |
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well i can see why. it's just that every culture in the world must accept that our way of life is the one true god-- or, wait, i mean to say that our country is the best in the world so everyone has to be like us because if they aren't just like us well then they must be liberal-- huh? i've confused myself. have i been watching fox news too much? i've got the two-minute hate-- i mean, o'reilly factor, on all the time in my suv's television screen... maybe... |
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Of course the colonists fled to America to escape Religious persecution and the unenlightened Europe they left behind ... Ironic, really. |
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no flesh, no entrails, get rid of it, they spoil your hardware. try live just like skeleton and you will be ok. i'm 2312 years old...but honestly decent upgrade would be fine, my ears apparatus make annoying tremolo. |
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( * ) '' 8 Faith Based Initiatives ^ that's me pooping on faith based initiatives. |
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it would be better i think to be frozen and then re thawed every 100 years or so for a day or two so you could check stuff out and if it sucks then you could just, like, get frozen again but freeze/thaw is really hard on dna and proteins and stuff so in the lab here we usually make a bunch of alliquots of the stuff so you can just thaw it and use it up and then you don't have to freeze/thaw it a bunch of times and each alliquot is as good as the first one usually! |
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have they figured out how to defrost people yet? |
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i don't think immortality can ever be achieved... that, or maybe everyone and everything is immortal but perpetual changing and we forget everything etc. any other situation would be atrocious in my opinion. |
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Immortality is impossible... if we're talking infinity here, a fatal accident is certain, obviously. And I don't think they'll come up with a remedy for, say, being crushed by a lorry, or being decapitated. The only thing that's vaguely plausible is something that slows down the aging process. |
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Also... who would want to be immortal?? I'm sure there's a million classic stories and myths wherein a god or wizard deals out immortality to the foolish as punishment. :D |
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we are already immortal fyi just restricted to human bodies for now |
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