Just think about the the exponential growth of knowledge. A thousand years of accumulated knowledge compiled in one person, multiplied thousands, maybe millions of times across the planet? So many downsides of prolonged human life (overpopulation, pollution, etc) would be solvable.
Eh, nice pipe dream, I guess, but it ain’t happening…
[quote]LIFTICVSMAXIMVS wrote:
dirtbag wrote:
If they can do it… it would make intergalactic space travel possible in one life time. Although I would not want to spend 900 years in space.
What galaxy do you think could be reachable in 1000 years?
The Andromeda Galaxy which is the closest galaxy to our own is 2.5M light years away. Even being able to travel at light speed (which to current knowledge is impossible) it would take 2.5 million years.
On the other hand, the closest star to our own, Proxima Centauri, within the Milky Way is only 4.2 light years away. This could be done in one 1000 year lifetime though it would still take about 200 years to travel 40E12 Km. Not only that it would take tons of fuel to accelerate to a decent speed and an equivalent amount of fuel to decelerate – forget about coming “home”.
The creepy thing would be knowing that the light coming from Proxima is 4.2 years old so it could be long gone and we wouldn’t know it until 4 years after the fact.[/quote]
Doh …I was thinking the nearest star. Wording FAIL
Hmm, I’m still young. If they need anyone to test for these life prolonging experiments, I’m game. It would rock to be able to stick at the highlight of mental/physical capacity, at around 21.
[quote]RebornTN wrote:
Hmm, I’m still young. If they need anyone to test for these life prolonging experiments, I’m game. It would rock to be able to stick at the highlight of mental/physical capacity, at around 21.[/quote]
If you’ve reached the “highlight” of your mental capacity at 21… good luck getting through the rest of life.
[quote]Travacolypse wrote:
RebornTN wrote:
Hmm, I’m still young. If they need anyone to test for these life prolonging experiments, I’m game. It would rock to be able to stick at the highlight of mental/physical capacity, at around 21.
If you’ve reached the “highlight” of your mental capacity at 21… good luck getting through the rest of life.[/quote]
I thought it was a biological fact that your brain is creating connections until the age of 21, and after that point you begin a slow decay where those connections begin to die off.
Yes? That’s all I was referring to.
I bet I still wouldn’t see the Cubs win the world series.
I’d be down for immortality. Oh, the things I would do, the time I would waste…
In all seriousness, 1000 years might be a bit much, but I probably wouldn’t pass up on it, even if nobody else decided to risk it. Fascinating stuff.
Ah you talk as if immortality is unnatural, what if death is unnatural? eh eh?
j/k a year ago i read like this whole fiction series of books called Area 51 (great great books). the author very creatively ties in basically everything to aliens: Area 51, the great flood, atlantis, the bubonic plague, etc.
the point is, in the book, it is revealed that humankind is basically a biological weapon. Created to be cannon fodder for the “good aliens” to fight the “bad aliens”. Due to our destructive nature, a failsafe was genetically engineered into us and that failsafe is death (or a short lifespan same thing). When we are needed by the aliens they use their technology to turn off this failsafe and we are immortal and have practically unlimited regenerative abilities.
That thing on the first stage about the imperfection of cell regeneration was used by the author as the defect.
Creative stuff
[quote]nomorewar wrote:
I bet I still wouldn’t see the Cubs win the world series. [/quote]
lol, nice one
I thought DNA have their own “age” per se. That is why when you clone a human the clones age fast because it’s “old” DNA. This might have to do with telomers etc as mention earlier.
Just wondering if this is right at all.
Now, along with the physics thread, we have the whole thread about the possibilities of DNA.
this is the stuff i am legend etc are based on…time too go stockpile some rifles
[quote]DickBag wrote:
LIFTICVSMAXIMVS wrote:
DickBag wrote:
living to 1000 would be lonley.
youd get bored of yourself thinking, “back in my day”
bla bla bla.
Why do you assume that? I don’t see how it would be any different that doubling ones life from 25 to 50 and so on. You probably wouldn’t be capable of remembering anything but the most significant pieces of your past. You would really be able to “recreate” yourself many times over if you were able to live to 1000 years-old.
the fact that we will die in about 50-70 years makes us do stuff, interesting stuff.
im only 23 and i feel like its been ages since i was 5 years old.
living to be 1000 would just be annoyying, imagine all those extra years of bad backs and alzeimers
i know what your thinking though, in a perfect world its nice, we all live together for 1000 years happy. i agree thats cool, but the reality is, watching your friends die while you live on for another 900 years would suck. and also it would be repetitive, life i mean.
dont get me wrong i dont want to die, all im saying is i think living for 1000 years might not be as glamourous as it sounds
i misspelled glamourous did i?
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but what if you, your friends, and family, could ALL live for 1000 years, in good health? you could probably do near everything there is to do, travel to every exotic location in the world, study EVERYTHNG you want to learn about (in fact, possibly learn everything that mankind has every studied). you could spend 25 years learning about ancient egypt, for example, and still have all have centuries of lifetime to learn about rome, greece, china, and all the other civilizations of history.
might just be me, but i dont think boredom would be an issue.
hell, imagine going on a 75 year bulk, coupled with gene doping…
See my other post. Unless coupled with some serious augmentation to your memory, the ability to live to 1000+ would be functionally meaningless, since you would hardly remember the majority of the things you learned and experienced hundreds of years after the fact.
Additionally, as for boredom, believe it or not, but boredom(at least what we call boredom) can actually result from having too many choices just as well as it can from having too few.
[quote]hypnotoad wrote:
but what if you, your friends, and family, could ALL live for 1000 years, in good health? you could probably do near everything there is to do, travel to every exotic location in the world, study EVERYTHNG you want to learn about (in fact, possibly learn everything that mankind has every studied). you could spend 25 years learning about ancient egypt, for example, and still have all have centuries of lifetime to learn about rome, greece, china, and all the other civilizations of history.
might just be me, but i dont think boredom would be an issue.
hell, imagine going on a 75 year bulk, coupled with gene doping…
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Indeed, for the naturally inquisitive it could be a wonderful lifetime…imagine what the biography of a person such as this would look like after 1000 years of living…
[quote]jehovasfitness wrote:
you’d have to work for 900 yrs, that’s sounds like real fun, lol
as said, saving for retirement would be interesting[/quote]
If you did it right you could work for 100 years and be retired for the other 900.
I’ve said it for a long time, if there were no women, I’m sure men would live forever, but what would be the point?
That’s just to long of a life, the boredom is one thing, yes you can see the world change and maybe see great things but do you really think you could get wood at that age? Imagine going over 900 years without being able to get it up! 900 years of no sex, thats not living! That’s just a cruel purgatory!
Just try and imagine living forever. Endless eternity.
For those of you saying that living to 1,000 would be boring, You probably have boring lives
to begin with. If your an adventurer and love challenges in your mortal years, You wouldn’t have a problem living to be a million!!!
Of course, if life is boring at the age of 30, Than I agree with you. Why the fuck would I want to live another 970 boring years.
This reminds me of that old thread where Al Shades said that he was immortal and the proof of that was the fact that he hadn’t died yet. Something like that.
I can’t find the old thread, but I think that was also the famous ‘.9 of a banana’ thread too.