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- TyrelVnne, on 07/15/2009, -0/+11Then i can lurk on Digg for eternity.
- Travelsonic, on 07/15/2009, -0/+10It would be cool to live another 500 - 1000 years, assuming they also discover a way to slow aging down to the point where 450 - 980 of those years won't be in a frail state.
- eyepennies, on 07/15/2009, -0/+9TECH SUPPORT!!!
- Kronich, on 07/15/2009, -0/+7But then again - I guess the reason it's used may be to suppress the immune system..
- StaticThunder, on 07/15/2009, -1/+8You are not ready for immortality.
- Contra69, on 07/15/2009, -3/+9"Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do on a rainy afternoon"- Susan Ertz
- MJM573, on 07/15/2009, -0/+6How is it shallow to not want to die? What if I am trying to cure a disease or create new technology and wished I had the lifetime to do it? Personally when I think of immortality I think of the book Tuck Everlasting, seeing how you wouldn't die I think the world would slow down. What's the point in rushing if you aren't going anywhere? I wouldn't mind taking my sweet ass time getting my degree and I'd probably go for a dual major rather than trying to graduate asap and get a job. Who knows maybe I'm just kidding myself
- waspbr, on 07/15/2009, -1/+7Everytime I hear one of those stories, the only thing that comes to mt mind is, " how much will it cost" . Since I am guessing there is a high demand for this, the costs of a treatment would be rather high. On the plus side, you will have a lot more time to payback.
Money aside, the possibilities are very enticing, imagine what scientists and scholar would be able to achieve if they weren' t bound by their lifetimes. If people could persue different careers at different points in life.
Personally I am all for it. - Jolest, on 07/15/2009, -1/+7We are nowhere near fully using the resources we have available to us. Immortality would be a strong incentive to make better use of those resources.
And, as I pointed-out in another comment in this thread, packaging birth-control as part of the "immortality treatment" would solve the "limited resources" issue. - c0mputar, on 07/15/2009, -0/+6Immortality will be achieved and readily available regardless of the consequences. The research behind it is too expansive for it to be restricted and/or expensive. The demand for it will be conclusively absolute, and thus the financial reward for those involved in the process are astronomical. There is absolutely nothing anyone can do to halt it or control this particular technological breakthrough.
Since any government regulation of the advancements would result in massive civil unrest and the creation of an underground trade, they will obviously make it readily available with a few strings attached so the patients continous existence is sustainable. A vesectomy, ownership of an electric car, and an investment into sustainable te hcnology as a percentage of income, are just a few examples. Humans will find a way, the only problem is how assessible it will be for those living in developing and 3rd world countries. Are those countries ready for it and what will they do to get their hands on it? Only time will tell. - Kronich, on 07/15/2009, -0/+5It is already used to prevent organ rejection in transplant patients... The outlook looks very good.
- allyclark, on 07/15/2009, -2/+7The obsession with immortality continues...
- acknotSW, on 07/15/2009, -0/+5I'm not afraid of death, but one lifetime just isn't enough to learn everything there is to know about everything I'm interested in. I also really want to know what happens to humanity. Do we colonize other planets in our solar system? Do we manage to leave our solar system and colonize the galaxy? Other galaxies? Meet other intelligent species?
- Jolest, on 07/15/2009, -0/+4There's far too much to do, see, and learn-about in our universe to let the boogieman of tedium hold me back. I'm betting that after a couple of hundred years, we'd come up with a good solution for that too.
A "life sentence" could include reversing the immortality treatment... Maybe that would get the attention of people contemplating something that could incur a life sentence. - eyepennies, on 07/15/2009, -0/+4Such sentiments usually precede major breakthroughs, so now I'm excited!
- gibbon1993, on 07/15/2009, -1/+5Tbh it would be a hard choice between dying of old age when theres still so much to do or waiting till your so bored you commit suicide.
I guess I could just try insulting everyone in the universe in alphabetical order :P - FLarsen, on 07/15/2009, -0/+4Is wanting to survive a bad thing, allyclark? Or am I missing some obscure point here?
Life extension technology already exists, as our current life expectancy is not natural. - AmnesiacJack, on 07/15/2009, -0/+4Ambassador Kosh?
- WasabiBomb, on 07/15/2009, -0/+3The first iteration of any new technology is expensive. Later models are cheaper and better. The price won't stay high for long.
- Fixhotep, on 07/15/2009, -0/+3liquid dreams?
They're called wet dreams...
Unless, of course, you meant lucid dreams... - GamerXR72, on 07/15/2009, -0/+3Not sure about forever, but it sure would be nice to live as long as I want too and be healthy while doing it.
- mfc5200, on 07/15/2009, -0/+3Makes sense. Imagine if people like Faraday, Tesla, Plato, Newton, Einstein etc never died. Our education process is extremely inefficient.
It takes you about 25-35 years to catch up to what others have done, then you have about 20 years to improve upon their work, then you retire and eventually die. If the brightest minds never died, we would never need to retrain new students to replace old experts and our technological progress would be much faster. - WasabiBomb, on 07/15/2009, -0/+3@gibbon1983- "Thats gonna make it pretty hard for tedium not to set in over millenia if theres no population turnover and we're stuck the same people represent the human race for eternity."
There are presently six billion people on the planet. Assuming you could meet one new person each hour, you wouldn't run out of people to meet for 684,477 years. I don't think you need to worry about that too much. I'll take that tedium. - evanrmurphy, on 07/15/2009, -0/+3> Mostly because of our shallow, primal, sense and fear death.
My desire to live a long time comes from a profound appreciation of life. I wouldn't want to do it alone though. - mykotron, on 07/15/2009, -1/+3The thing about immortality. It's something we all want. Mostly because of our shallow, primal, sense and fear death. Unfortunately, if we learn to keep people alive forever we will more than likely have to start choosing who's going to live and who's going to die. Cause obviously we will run out of room on earth. So how do we make those choices? Do we tax people based on their health care? Do we make health care really expensive? Shiiiit maybe this is already happening.....
The only way around this seems to be to learn to colonize other planets and space stations at a steadying rate. - Pixelante, on 07/15/2009, -0/+2It's all fun and games until someone's daughter is called Miri. Then it's foolie time for all grups.
- Jolest, on 07/15/2009, -0/+2Like many anti-immortalists, you're ignoring an obvious alternative to the question of having to ration who lives and who dies...
If you want to live forever, you just have to include birth-control as part of the package. Problem solved. - Ferretman, on 07/17/2009, -0/+2Heck ya--I'm up for it!
I have Things To Do, and I shall never become bored. - inactive, on 07/15/2009, -1/+3I don't think it would be too bad for the Earth and third world. One of the biggest hurdles to long space flight is time, which wouldn't be an issue anymore.
Plus, if people could expect to live for hundreds of years, it might cause a major shift towards conservation and long term management. Problems like fossil fuels won't be the children's issue anymore. - Fixhotep, on 07/15/2009, -0/+2damnit, i came here to post just this thinking no one would get the reference...
- lacrimosa2008, on 07/15/2009, -0/+2The more I think about Ellie the more liquid dreams I have. Who's Ellie anyway?
- EricPortal, on 08/06/2009, -0/+2This cause is picking up steam left and right. Indefinite life extension is the wave of the future. Its the next big cause, its the most important and crucial cause that has ever been taken on in the history of humanity. This is real. Technology, and the information age, and the dawning of the transhuman era are makeing this all real. If you want your life, if you want to help cure the 7 diseases, the 7 forms of damage that cause us to age and die then get in on the action today. Today, your death bed awaits you. Think outside the box, outside the casket that is.
- Claverhouse, on 07/15/2009, -0/+2Which planets would those be ? *interested*
- dicky83, on 07/15/2009, -8/+10Who wants to live forever?
- StaticThunder, on 07/15/2009, -1/+3That will get old after a millenia or two.
- acknotSW, on 07/15/2009, -2/+4Right here!
- inactive, on 07/15/2009, -0/+2It would be great to live forever. It would be even cooler if they could cure boredom too. I could sit in a space ship for 30 years and not care. I'd be like Cthulhu, if I don't like the scene, I'd just kick back for a thousand years and hope things get better. Or Bender, and hide with treasure in a basement till the heat's off.
- loaded123, on 07/15/2009, -1/+3If we were immortal, we could kinda civilize other planets which do have resources.
- mykotron, on 07/17/2009, -0/+1excellent point mfcw5200
- AmnesiacJack, on 07/15/2009, -1/+2I say let the worms eat cake.
- FLarsen, on 07/15/2009, -1/+2Dude, extend your life (when/if possible) and solve those problems when they start becoming a problem *billions of years into the future*.
- mykotron, on 07/15/2009, -1/+2i dunno, i'd be happy living forever as a brain in an aquarium as long as I had eyeballs to watch the future unfold.
- Frostek, on 07/15/2009, -1/+2Your life must be truly dull and empty for you to populate it with such clichéd fantasies...
- bobbinika, on 07/15/2009, -0/+1http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgK_keIJq-4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7CuJ8cR9sg - Ferretman, on 07/17/2009, -0/+1Me.
- Mavital, on 07/15/2009, -1/+2This also assumes technology doesn't improve. Technology tends to improve rather quickly when there is a necessity. Lets assume that tomorrow we find out that we only have 10 years of oil left. Prices would rocket to unbearable levels. At this point, existing forms of energy would be improved to a point to be cost feasible or new forms of energy would be created.
War is the same way. Look at what World War 1 and World War 2 did to aviation and other sectors. Put a fire under the human race and we tend to find a way to keep surviving.
Now - Will this be available so I can keep my pet alive forever? Because I could probably teach my dog to go to the store, purchase me a six pack of beer, bring it home, open it up, and bring it to me on my couch in a lifetime. - eyepennies, on 07/15/2009, -0/+1There's already a cure for boredom.
- KJSatz, on 07/15/2009, -0/+1The obsession with commenting on comments continues.
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