[QUOTE=Mr. N;29721018]I agree in fighting death, but the idea of some people living forever and old ideas never dieing is kind of scary.[/QUOTE]
Maybe those people wouldn't get it because they think it's "Playing God", and they'd rather die and go to a theoretical heaven rather than live forever on Earth?
Doubtful, I know, but it's possible.
[QUOTE=Treybuchet;29721145]Maybe those people wouldn't get it because they think it's "Playing God", and they'd rather die and go to a theoretical heaven rather than live forever on Earth?
Doubtful, I know, but it's possible.[/QUOTE]
Not really talking about that too much, but in general. As stated in the OP dieing replaces old generations and replaces them with new, possibly different thinking individuals. Political ideas and whatnot wouldn't change, and powerful and corrupt leaders wouldn't die unless murdered.
[QUOTE=Darth_GW7;29720354]You seem to think that biological immortality ie. stopping the ageing process would make us suddenly able to develop faster-than-light spacecraft.
No, it wouldn't, FTL is still impossible because you will still have mass.
I know we don't necessarily need FTL in order to get somewhere, since we have seemingly infinite time, but we're still talking thousands of years just to get to the nearest star system. And who says we'll be able to colonise it?
Personally I believe in re-incarnation, therefore, to me, death is not the end; to me, there is no end. But you believe that death is the end, and fine. But we're fools to try and avoid it like cowards. Death will come to all of us, no matter what we try or do, and once you learn to accept that, you'll be much less scared of it.
Besides, you'll get bored eventually; there's only so much you can do, especially in space travel; you'd get restless just floating around for thousands of years doing the same things over and over. Like I said, you'll envy the dead once you get bored out of your skull.
[editline]9th May 2011[/editline]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5L8-FTvSVxs[/media][/QUOTE]
Because FTL is suddenly the only way to travel to the stars?
[url]http://projectrho.com/rocket/slowerlight.php[/url]
Stop getting facts out of cheap TV show sf.
This shit is deep.
[QUOTE=Darth_GW7;29720354]You seem to think that biological immortality ie. stopping the ageing process would make us suddenly able to develop faster-than-light spacecraft.
No, it wouldn't, FTL is still impossible because you will still have mass.[/quote]
wormholes et cetera, besides living forever would let us live until a form of space travel becomes feasible, be it FTL or not
[QUOTE=Darth_GW7;29720354]But we're fools to try and avoid it like cowards. Death will come to all of us, no matter what we try or do, and once you learn to accept that, you'll be much less scared of it. [/quote]
This is just dumb, if you can extend your life to experience more, why not do it? You will eventually die of course, universal heat death etc. But there's far more experiences out there than you can fill one lifetime with.
[QUOTE=Darth_GW7;29720354]Besides, you'll get bored eventually; there's only so much you can do, [/quote]
Then kill yourself. Big deal? It's not like you have to wait until you die of natural causes.
[QUOTE=Darth_GW7;29720354]especially in space travel; you'd get restless just floating around for thousands of years doing the same things over and over. [/QUOTE]
Who says you have to be awake during space travel?
[QUOTE=Treybuchet;29720746]Doesn't it count as psychological torment now?[/QUOTE]
Well no because the prison sentence isn't for the rest of eternity.
[QUOTE=carcarcargo;29724276]Well no because the prison sentence isn't for the rest of eternity.[/QUOTE]
Yeah but it's so easy to be a prisoner and never be able to look forward to living a normal life where you can have decisions, because of the killer routine. You are basically waiting for death :geno:
according to the act science portion, there are 3 leading theories on how to reverse ageing, ultimatly it'll be like the theory of the universe (big bang) where scientist'll dial into the right one
also i plan on going to marz and if the current political system is still around in 50+ years, im definatly going to be waiting a while
[url]http://www.cryonics.org/[/url]
Doing this.
We talked about this today in bio.
It's not likely to lead to anything in the near future.
[QUOTE=Sableye;29729509]according to the act science portion, there are 3 leading theories on how to reverse ageing, ultimatly it'll be like the theory of the universe (big bang) where scientist'll dial into the right one
also i plan on going to marz and if the current political system is still around in 50+ years, im definatly going to be waiting a while[/QUOTE]
I didn't know that so much wrong could be present in one post. There are countless methods of combating aging and all of them will be used, perhaps even combined for a more concrete effect. Also why would mars have a different political system? Democracy is the best system by far, just through in a dash of technocracy and meritocracy and it'll be perfect.
And anyone who fears immortality is a massive bleeding pussy.
[editline]10th May 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=Jo The Shmo;29731107]We talked about this today in bio.
It's not likely to lead to anything in the near future.[/QUOTE]
Actually we already have a lot of the ground work set out for it, and If you take aubrey de greys plan for immortality then its pretty likely to work.
fucking shit i love it when people say lightspeed travel is impossible considering how humanity is [B]constantly[/B] proving itself wrong
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