Comments on: Do You Want to Live Forever?

By: Lionizing

Lionizing — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 03:52:54 +0000

[quote]lizdini said: “MisterF said: “There is plenty of room for more people, There is a huge area called outter space it is the final frontier for man. And as far as resources I’m not to concerned about that. There are other alternatives that are being worked on. I really hate living in the stone ages I wish I had been born a few hundred years later.”
We can only hope a few hundred years from now will be the future you imagine.”[/quote]

Man… we’re humans on EARTH for a reason… The EARTH is a certain distance from the sun for a reason, seeing that gravity is generally the reason we’ve evolved the way we have. You know that in outer space, the only way we could start settling on another planet is if we could find another star that is the exact same size as the Sun and a planet the same distance away from it. Seeing that it’s nearly damn impossible to have a human leave this planet’s galaxy [set aside the whole concept of going onto another planet] I see no chance of “people who will live to see their 1,000th birthday are already alive today” jumping around to other galaxies and skipping across the universe like barney in a gymnasium.
So i agree with you lizdini, we can only freakin hope, haha.

By: lizzie

lizzie — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 20:51:16 +0000

If we are able to prolongue/ pause our lives we were always eventually meant to work out how to do so , if we are not then we weren’t. Life is a play ground, I believe that some times we must take a gamble and see where advancements in science may take us.
In addition there are simple ways of reducing popultation size e.g. two children per couple? I personally would love to have more time on this earth, to see what I can achieve with some more time. Maybe this this selfish.
However, I also believe minds which have had more years to gain information will have an even better impact on our world today. In response to the comment about less time forcing us to enjoy our lives more, I am inclined to believe that the shadow of death actually taints the pleasure of life considerabley. The idea that I must always make the most of everything because I will die one day seems hideous and the fear that those around me or my self will die is a constant fear in my mind. Anything which lessens this burden is a possitive in my mind.

By: lizzie

lizzie — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 20:45:55 +0000

By: Frank G

Frank G — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:30:36 +0000

[quote]Chitach said: “Here is a translation of this article into Russian: http://chitach.ru/posts/2/“[/quote]

What a great idea, Chitach.

I could translate the articles in Dutch, do you think it would be appreciated ?

Frank G

By: Chitach

Chitach — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:12:03 +0000

Here is a translation of this article into Russian: http://chitach.ru/posts/2/

By: Jospec5Star

Jospec5Star — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 20:59:22 +0000

I don’t doubt that it is possible to live for a LOT longer however I believe there is good reason we currently max out around 100.

Also, I thought this to be absolutely hilarious for some reason.
[quote]His recipe, known as Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence (SENS), calls for a number of ingredients which do not yet exist.[/quote]

By: blgrnboy

blgrnboy — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 19:41:36 +0000

I believe there are many positives in being able to live forever, besides the fear of dying. If you think about it, there are only a few true geniouses that every generation may have in every particular field of study. For example, if Albert Einstein would have been able to live for 1000 years, he may have advanced the sciences of mathematics and physics in such a way, that our generation may have been even more advanced than we already are. I’m not saying that no one is smarter than him in what he did, but every human being has a certain potential, and being able to live a longer time in which you could complete your studies (if it is even feasible), without having to pass it on or leave it and hope that the next so called genious who picks it up has the same potential and rate of acceleration in the study as you do, would advance technology faster, and perhaps improve humanity overall. Also, I completely agree with one of the other comments which stated that although resources are a concern, we may be able to expand the human population into the cosmos and beyond.

By: TheEndofLore

TheEndofLore — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 21:37:54 +0000

I couldn’t afford to live forever.

By: Mostly Harmless

Mostly Harmless — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 07:38:38 +0000

Funny, but for a guy who thinks he’ll live to 2100, in the picture, Aubrey de Grey looks kinda old for 42. Just look at that receding hair line and white hair at the front… What a beard though! You could get lost in that thing!

By: lizdini

lizdini — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 04:39:07 +0000

[quote]MisterF said: “There is plenty of room for more people, There is a huge area called outter space it is the final frontier for man. And as far as resources I’m not to concerned about that. There are other alternatives that are being worked on. I really hate living in the stone ages I wish I had been born a few hundred years later.”[/quote]

We can only hope a few hundred years from now will be the future you imagine.