Wouldn't it suck living forever? You will eventually run out of things to do and get bored.
I feel like in the very distant future if and when death is a thing of the past more or less, it will just be normal for new civilizations to be popping up in the galaxy to fight overpopulation and stuff.
Nah, everything dies.
I don't think giving humans the gift of longevity is a very good idea for the sake of overpopulation and rapid resource consumption.
[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]
Should i watch this or the new House?
Agrees for this.
I don't know why but I think that immortality would make humans fight or hate eachother more than make things better.
The planet would be overpopulated, resources would be scarce, this immortal thing could even separate the society (I'm pretty sure whatever vaccine,surgery etc. that would make people immortal won't be that cheap so everyone could buy it). That could lead to wars or lots of riots.
I simply can't think of things going well if immortality would be discovered.
If nobody died of old age, everyone would die of Cancer. Plus the Environment would be pooped on.
Yeah the bit where he talks about living forever is near the end of the video (question time). And he doesn't even talk about living for ever. He said they've developed a protein (very early stages) that can make you live 30% longer since it slows the ageing process.
Don't quote me on that. I wasn't paying full attention, but i think im about right.
In order to live forever, we would need to have circular DNA instead of strands of DNA. That or develop some sort of protein that can permanently cap the ends of the strands.
[QUOTE=jaykray;33392604]Perhaps you'd be required to become sterile if you want to live forever.[/QUOTE]
That's a pretty interesting solution actually imo.
[QUOTE=Daniel Smith;33395479]Wouldn't it suck living forever? You will eventually run out of things to do and get bored.[/QUOTE]
Actually I think living through this era of human history would be very interesting. There is more going on right now than ever before. If you lived 200 years, think about the insane changes you would have seen throughout your life. It could be likely that you moved to a different planet.
[QUOTE=monkey11;33397150]In order to live forever, we would need to have circular DNA instead of strands of DNA. That or develop some sort of protein that can permanently cap the ends of the strands.[/QUOTE]
I'm interested, explain how circular DNA could make our lives last forever
There's a species of jellyfish that can revert itself back into a polyp and restart it's lifecycle from baby form- it's pretty cool and is the only biologically immortal specimen found to date.
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turritopsis_nutricula[/url]
Not too sure where that's going in terms of research, but good to know it's remotely possible somehow.
[QUOTE=jaykray;33392604]Perhaps you'd be required to become sterile if you want to live forever.[/QUOTE]
But you'd probably "form babbys" before the surgery, or at least smuggle some mini-me's.
So that would not be a permanent solution, unless the government decides for obligatory abortion.
Not with the ammount of landmines in my lawn, some kid is gonna run across it eventually.
I would not want to live for ever
Fuck dying of age, I've had way too many people to take care of dying their natural death. If someone wants to live ten years like a vegetable with daily amnesia, rendered more useless than a toddler, it's their choice.
Would you want to live forever, or...
FOR-EVER YOUNG?
[QUOTE=J$ Psychotic;33399557]Would you want to live forever, or...
FOR-EVER YOUNG?[/QUOTE]
I want to be forever young
[QUOTE=J$ Psychotic;33399557]Would you want to live forever, or...
FOR-EVER YOUNG?[/QUOTE]
whats the point of living forever when you barely able to do anything in life
Since this thread isn't really going anywhere and has basically the same shit over and over again i'm going to comment Dr. Michio's speech. Even today producing items such as microchips is extremely cheap this doesn't mean that the final price will be low as the producing price, If not for any other reason then because everything else is so expensive. Even if everything was cheap corporations would still have to pay salaries. We have a lot of world wide problems which prevent this utopia from happening for now, or atleast drasticly slow it down.
[QUOTE=monkey11;33397150]In order to live forever, we would need to have circular DNA instead of strands of DNA. That or develop some sort of protein that can permanently cap the ends of the strands.[/QUOTE]
Bacteria have circular DNA, you don't see them living forever
Why would having circular DNA make you live forever anyway? I don't know where the reasoning comes from
[QUOTE=TheFilmSlacker;33400654]I don't think we'll find a way to live forever, but with medical science going the way it is, I doubt we won't find a way to make us live a bit longer in our lifetimes.[/QUOTE]
This, usually as our bodies parts fail us there's a often a fix to that - hip surgery, heart transplant, kidney transplant and so on but slowly we will reach an age where a new problem that hasn't been solved yet kills you.
What ever i want to die from age anyway its a part off life. If they make it inpossible for us to die from age then we will die from not getting enought food
Whats with this guy and shit threads?
But to answer your question, no. I do not believe we will be the last generation.
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