This is literally the plot line of the corpse vanishes. (Keep in mind it was filmed in 1942.)
A lovely MST9K Riffed version of it:
[video=youtube_share;NwOIdwUhFIo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwOIdwUhFIo[/video]
edit: What I mean by that is some professor kills young brides and harvests their blood to keep his wife from aging.
[QUOTE=InsaneParrot;44730659]That's true. However, there still would be disease and murder. [B]If you're worried about overpopulation[/B], that could still be [B]fixed through starvation[/B] and colonization of other planets.[/QUOTE]
i'm not sure that would make anyone less worried lol. :suicide:
[QUOTE=Joazzz;44729074]blood for the Blood God[/QUOTE]
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you disappoint the Emperor.
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[QUOTE=anis;44730743]So in the future we'll all be vampires?[/QUOTE]
Nah, first we need to find a stone mask.
I really hope religious people dont fuck up the studies like they did with the stem cell
[QUOTE=Joazzz;44729074]blood for the Blood God[/QUOTE]
I didn't know Chaos had it's own Commissars. That'd be badass though.
[QUOTE=proch;44730528]Problem is, that even if we ever discovered a "cure" for aging, it would have an incredible impact on society. It would make the current division of super-rich and the rest look like paradise.[/QUOTE]
True that, the old rich would technically live forever whilst the poor would die like the rest of us. That is, unless the secrets of eternal life are guarded by some sort of elite brotherhood or international guild, deciding who to grant immortality depending on their skills, which would still be "elitist immortality" but would revolve around rewarding humanity at its best, rather than the secret of the immortals going to some pampered brats born into money with little respect for the world and its people.
Better to reward true paragons of humanity, those who excel in what is good and amazing in mankind, than to ensure the eternal survival of those who would drag us down the path to stagnation and extinction all for personal gain. If there ever is a "Brotherhood of the Fountain", I would hope that one day I could qualify for the opportunity to eat from the tree of life.
That said the young-blood transfusion technique would probably seem like medieval chemsitry practice in comparison to the endgame of turning every cell in our body into durable efficient nanomachines that are capable of easy repairs. But even then, death could still claim us through violence or accident, so we'd probably end up becoming augmented brains-in-jars connected via LAN and internet to experience virtual worlds of our own creation, dreaming in deathless sleep until we are awakened to perform certain tasks through remote-operated drones or robotic exoskeletons that the brain-jar slots into.
Hell, in such a society "dreamtime" would be the currency, where the sleepers would earn hours and days worth of time for performing maintenance, construction, surveillance, exploring whatever world the mausolibra is in orbit around, and use their given time to experience virtual worlds of all kinds created by virtual artists. Some would say it'd be like "paying to sleep", but to paraphrase that one scene from Inception, "They pay to wake up..."
[QUOTE=ah!panic;44729096]and does old blood holds the key for aging faster?
Parents should give it to young babies so they grow faster and they don't have to spend as much on diapers.[/QUOTE]
Maybe if you fill a vial with old blood and put a test tube baby to grow in it it'll grow super fast like one of those things that you put in your bathtub
Bigfoot lied to John Marston.
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