• Will we be the last generation to die?
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As we speak, scientists are trying to develop ways for us humans to live longer/forever. And they are actually making it really far. But some scientists says that our generation is going to be the last one to die before they figure out a way to make us live longer. But many scientists also says that they will make it in our generation. That would really suck. And be fucking unfair at the same time. Especially with all of the new technologies coming up, like electronical contact lenses and what not. So what do you think? Will our generation be the last on earth to die of age? And how would you feel if that is so? Would you be sad? Maybe happy?
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I knew a Deus Ex joke would come eventually, but not this soon.
My bet is that I'll be in my 80s/90s when they discover a way to make us live longer/forever
[url]http://www.facepunch.com/forums/403[/url] And I doubt it'd ever happen, as scientists knows we're already overpopulating. Maybe it'd be used in extreme cases, such as if Obama got severely injured, but for the typical person I doubt it really.
Living longer doesn't change the fact that generations will still die of old age. It's just a matter of time, but I hope we'll get to live longer, I really do. The whole idea of death makes me sad.
Every year has its own generation. So, no, probably.
I'm just hoping they develop enough to allow us to live until they get mind uploading working.
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you have issues
[QUOTE=CHRHN;33388333] And they are actually making it really far.[/QUOTE] source please [QUOTE=CHRHN;33388333] some scientists [/QUOTE] who? [QUOTE=CHRHN;33388333] electronical[/QUOTE] lol
[QUOTE=Trumple;33388978]source please who? lol[/QUOTE] Somewhere in this 1 hour long video. Watched through it all, but cannot remember when he talked about it. [video=youtube;219YybX66MY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=219YybX66MY[/video] [editline]22nd November 2011[/editline] Yes, I am lonely sometimes. :(
It would be a blessing if they found out the cure to death after shitposters like OP became extinct.
[QUOTE=CHRHN;33389035]Somewhere in this 1 hour long video. Watched through it all, but cannot remember when he talked about it. [video=youtube;219YybX66MY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=219YybX66MY[/video] [editline]22nd November 2011[/editline] Yes, I am lonely sometimes. :([/QUOTE] Sometimes I just can't take that guy seriously.
I don't understand how that idea would work. I mean, okay, we can't make humans invulnerable so there's still going to be murder going on, but how are we going to keep our population from spiraling out of control if we're all immortal? We pretty much need people to die so that we aren't all fucked.
Indeed we are, 2012 is around the corner.
[QUOTE=AceOfDivine;33390687]Indeed we are, 2012 is around the corner.[/QUOTE] I can't wait for the Mayan calender to start the next b'ak'tun!
if we all live infinitely, would be enough space for all of us?
If the steepness of the progress curve as you describe it is true, your life will already be prolonged enough in this generation to benefit from the medical advantages of the next generation, which in turn will make you live longer to benefit from the next advantages, and so on and so forth. But I doubt it'll happen, has been promised so often already. And even if it does happen, I dare say it'll be far away from eternal youth. So as long as they don't find a way to trick the body into reproducing brain cells (that don't regenerate after puberty iirc), I'd be just a threehundred years old senile sack of wrinkles. And I never asked for that.
[QUOTE=Marik Bentusi;33390944]If the steepness of the progress curve as you describe it is true, your life will already be prolonged enough in this generation to benefit from the medical advantages of the next generation, which in turn will make you live longer to benefit from the next advantages, and so on and so forth. But I doubt it'll happen, has been promised so often already. And even if it does happen, I dare say it'll be far away from eternal youth. So as long as they don't find a way to trick the body into reproducing brain cells (that don't regenerate after puberty iirc), I'd be just a threehundred years old senile sack of wrinkles. And I never asked for that.[/QUOTE] I agree. The hurdles lie in making those extra years worth it. We still don't have a way to deal with Parkinson Disease, Alzheimers, many cancers and a lot of other things. Even today we have health care issues due in part to an increasing population of old people. If you ask me, I would pass on the extra century in a retirement home.
[QUOTE=CHRHN;33388760][IMG]http://i44.tinypic.com/i5sx6w.png[/IMG] WHY??? WHY DID YOU HAVE TO YOU STARTED IT FUCK YOU [highlight](User was banned for this post ("Terrible post" - Orkel))[/highlight][/QUOTE] I'm not gonna lie, the sheer SB&HJ vibes this gives made me laugh really hard. But yeah, as for your OP, I doubt it. Really do.
It will take a long tim before we can adjust to not dying. It might sound stupid but not dying is a massive problem if we try to live life as we do now. We'd need to have the tech to look beyond mars when it comes to private and commercial colonies.
I really don't want to live forever, sure, i want to live a long time, but eventually, you just get tired of life. I Talked to an old man, he's 96 now, he helped draft some very important documents in Australian history. I asked him whether he thinks he'll make it too 100, he replied that he is tired of Life, he just wants to die. I realized how horrible it must be for him, you can't remember everything you used to, your own body turns against you, crippling you with weakness and arthritis, you can no longer go to the toilet properly. Keeping you alive is only prolonging the persons suffering. It would be selfish for the family to keep trying to prolong his life, he has needs too. The ward he was in cost 100,000 a year. I think about him sometimes, what it's like to so far gone, yet still tied to the earth, when he just wants to be set free.
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Although it's hard to estimate when the tipping point will happen, we do have sufficient evidence showing that the first person to reach 200 years of age will only be ten years older than the first person to reach 1000 years of age. When we develop successful medical anti-aging therapies, we will slow down aging so much to a point where it is stopped entirely. Then, something 'tips' and we begin to reverse the effects of aging. At this point natural deaths will be something rare and death will only be a result of accident or homicide. As said in this video: [url]http://www.ted.com/talks/aubrey_de_grey_says_we_can_avoid_aging.html[/url] This raises many ethical dilemmas, but the biggest issue is the overpopulation of planet Earth. My opinion is that this will press the urge to inhabit other planets. Some would say we are not technologically advanced to do such a feat, and I agree, but I think that we have the ability to reach that level if we focus on it. The worldwide space budget is $38 billion. The worldwide military budget is $2,100 billion. We are focusing so much more on fighting with ourselves, but if we transfer that funding to a difference cause, space, we could be capable of feats that will change things forever.
Yeah don't count on it. Scientific progress has come a long way but we're not wizards.
Perhaps you'd be required to become sterile if you want to live forever.
[QUOTE=Luxo;33392492]Yeah don't count on it. Scientific progress has come a long way but we're not wizards.[/QUOTE] 1957 the Sputnik 1 was the first artificial satellite to be put in Earths orbit. Twelve years later, 1969, we stepped foot onto the moon. I'd say that is a radical example of how quickly we can progress.
Nah we won't, there will be many generations dying after us. The technology's still not there and when it is, it's not going to be as simple as just handing it out to everyone.
Yeah, but just for me and a few other people and scientists. that's all i want
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