/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Hitler would kill me though.

I wish I was born in the age where medical immortality was possible.

>>9499865
I don't understand people who want to be immortal. 30 years or so are plenty enough for me.

What time period would this be?

>>9499903

Virtual reality age

circa 2030~2100

>>9499865

I do wish this as well.

100 years max is just not enough for me.

>>9499865
Hell, I'm willing to settle for eternal youth.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/yourcommunity/2012/07/human-immortality-could-be-possible-by-2045-say-russian
-scientists.html

How are you gonna pay for your silicon host-brain, /jp/?

Nope. Just the right time, with maximum cultural decadence (america, multiculturalism, LGBT, racemixing) and a wwiij soon erupting. After those shitty events, we can finaly make this a proper place.

Best age

>>9499972
Is it wrong that I look forward to WWIII? They keep delaying it, but I want it to happen while I'm still young.

>>9499956

By taking a loan to turn into a little girl using advanced medical technology, where they fuck ceaselessly for the rest of their lives in order to make back what it cost to turn them into little girls.

>>9499972
I can't wait for civil war between pure blooded Europeans and mudslimes. It's time we did something about them.

>>9499989

By the time we can build silicon brains and transfer the consciousness to them we'll have engineered something to emulate the feeling of sex, too. So I doubt prostitution will be viable.

>>9499984
WWIII will be fought on the moon against Chinese robot marines since everything by then will be unmanned, so you don't have to worry about going to war.

>>9499865
I don't understanding wanting to live forever. It seems like it'd be awfully boring.

>>9500036

That's fictional immortality. With real immortality you just live until you don't want to any more.

Wars are shit. They just happen again and again because new generations don't know about them. It's cyclical. The elite acts more and more shamelessly and people grow weary. A war ensues. Everything gets blown to pieces. "Never again". Because everything is in ruins, the future looks bright again. You can only go up from the bottom, after all.

>>9500045

On the contrary, post-WWII was a culture of pessimism. Existentialism, and in particular, existentialist themes in literature blossomed after WWII. The future wasn't bright at all, for a lot of people.

>>9500066

America got off pretty handy

>>9500076

Most of the American civillian population was never directly involved, that's why.

>>9500066
Yes, the damage was terrible. However, the next generation was already experiencing a world where everything was progressing fast.

>>9500066
I thought that was more of a WWI thing.

By the time WWII ended, people were sick of thirty continuous years of pessimism and just wanted to get on with creating things instead of destroying things.

>>9500111
Infrastructural damage is often ignored. A full-scale modern war is absolutely devastating. It really matters where the fighting goes on. America has lately had the advantage of waging war on foreign land.

Why doesn't the US take like half of its defense budget (still far more than the next five largest budgets added together) and invest it into the space program? It's not like it wouldn't pay, either, because asteroid mining would be *ridiculous* money.

Imagine what NASA could do with 370 billion dollars. They're doing all this ultra-ambitious shit next year and only asking $17bn...

>>9500187

>>9500197
I'm no infographic expert, but if you're showing a percentage of GDP, why use flat circles of different sizes? Why not pie charts or something? You could even have pie charts of different sizes, and eschew the need for that shit on the right.

What if the 12/21/12 rapture is actually the opening of the portal to Gensokyo? And all the bad people will be eaten and all the pure ones will live peacefully in Gensokyo?>>9499800

>>9500187
People in power still play by old rules, like they've always done. The prisoner's dilemma is valid.

>>9500202
That is not a percentage of GDP/

Not at all, I'm pretty sure if I was born before my time, I'd have a much, much worse life.

>>9500218

>>9500187
>asteroid mining would be *ridiculous* money
It really wouldn't. And spaceflight does not deserve that kind of money in any case.

>>9500197

>>9500229
They spend ten times as much money and don't even get a 10x as big aircraft carrier?

What a jip.

>>9500197

That is a really shitty graphic. It claims to go by percent of gdp, but looks like it is using absolute numbers or something.

It seems to emphasis the fact that the U.S. spends more the next 10 or so other top military spenders. Sounds convincing, until you realize that our gdp is over twice that of the closest nation (China). If you actually look at defense spending as a percent of gdp, U.S. is only like 5 or 6, and if you look at per capita gdp it is probably much lower.

>>9500225

Unless the U.S. is spending 739.3 % of our national budget on the military, then that graphic is not in fact by percent of gdp, ace.

>>9500187
What if they invested it in catgirls?

What the fuck are you doing? I really hope no one has the guts to say that he was "trolling" about the GDP thing. Get a grip.

The GDP thing was the header to a different graph which was caught in the screenshot

>>9500229
Reminds me of my country history, Spain gained lots of wealth during our conquerings and we used it all to buy and build weaponary and ships to become a powerful sea monster which roamed the oceans prideful and cocky, we got behind in economy despite our army and as time passed by our inanimate dream withered along our armada.

It's said that history repeats itself, wonder how much of it is true.

>>9500304
All empires fail eventually.
When the US fails it will take down the whole world with it.

>>9500312
China is rising, the whole world wont fall.

>>9500286
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_United_States

Its not cheap to be the worlds number one military super power.

Would be interesting to know if people did ever expect the USA to be so powerful after WW2

>>9500304
>It's said that history repeats itself, wonder how much of it is true.
You should read more history! I'm serious, it gives a lot.

I just want to live in an age when VR is cheap enough that I can spend most of my time in 2d worlds and historical simulations.

>>9500325
>Would be interesting to know if people did ever expect the USA to be so powerful after WW2
Some people always know what's going to happen. Information is the ultimate resource.

>>9500342
>VR
??
Valtion Rautatie?

No but I feel like I have been born in the wrong place

>>9500365
lol ebin joke hermanni :---D

>>9500225
That's for the infographic below it
The guy who made that image is bad at cropping

Sure do. Being a weak fleshy thing is suffering.

>>9500379
Joke vas self esteemed. :DDD