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i love that picture, the frog looks so fucking happpy

FUTURISM GENERAL

THORIUMAN
SPACE TRAVELAN
MECHANOSYNTHETHISAN
FURRIESAN
PHOBOSAN

>That feel when you were born too early you will never get the chance to tell your grandchildren that you were born on a distant planet called Earth

>>>/pol/269803

>that feel when you will never get a chance to ride a space elevator to your house on the moon

>>4022059
>furries
dude what
dude, when

>That feel when you were born to early, you'll never get the chance to write love letters to your girlfriend while she studies at Mars University

>>4022070

Advanced virtual reality

Nanobot body alteration

Take your pick

>>4022044
>I am the one who motivated Inurdae to make that picture
It's like i made something, without actually doing any work!
Now i know why it's so good to be a nationalist. Or a singularitarian.

>That feel when you were born too early, you'll never be able to not ask for this

>>4022076

Or, you know, genetic engineering.

>that feel when you're born at the onset of the apocalypse

>that feel when you tell people about this
>that feel when you tell them after that it will never happen because it doesnt interest the people who have the money to make it happen
>that feel when you get written off as a conspiracy-fag

>>4022061
>>4022072
>>4022081
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-rejuvenated-stem-cells-coaxed-centenarian.html

http://www.theage.com.au/technology/sci-tech/drugs-may-let-us-live-to-150-20111016-1lrm5.html

http://www.hplusmagazine.com/articles/forever-young/manhattan-beach-project-end-aging-2029

http://www.ted.com/themes/might_you_live_a_great_deal_longer.html

http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/07/sierra-sciences-working-towards.html

http://www.sens.org/sens-research/research-themes

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3329065877451441972#

http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101128/full/news.2010.635.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/nov/28/scientists-reverse-ageing-mice-humans

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-06-biologists-yeast-cells-reverse-aging.html

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-06-dna-reverse-premature-aging.html

>that feel when you'll die at 70 and you will never see immortality

>>4022082

Genetic engineering would let your CHILDREN be furries.

You can't re-engineer yourself on such a level. Your bones and body structure are all basically done working.

>that feel when you were born too early you won't have the privilege of dying for your space king and space country in the space crusades

>That feel when you'll never be an Animorph

>that feel when your in class or something and you think that your going to go home and study your ass off trying to further your chances of making shit like this succeed, and then proceed immediately on the vidya as soon as you get home

>>4022101

>Genetic engineering would let your CHILDREN be furries.
>Children

>50 gigaseconds after the Singularity
>having children
>mfw

>>4022090
Even if they eventually get it to work on humans, immortality will be regulated and sold to the highest bidder.

>>4022105
>That feel when you haven't had sex your entire junior year.
>That feel when science has turned me into an aspie

>that feel when humanity is advancing at an exponential rate
>that feel when it will all be for nothing when WWIII begins

>>4022118
>That feel when you'll get drafted to fighting our cyborg overlords

>>4022126

Posthumans live a long time.

>>4022108
>50 gigaseconds
>~1600 years

>>4022111
Nope.

>>4022118
>that feel when WWIII will be the end of modern civilization

>That feel when you'll be among the transhumans to escape the ravages of Earth.

AND YOU WILL LIVE HAPPILY EVER AFTER ON THE ORBITAL SAGAN

>>4022133
>that feel when WWIII will be the end of the world as we know it

>>4022108

Well if you're talking about singularity then you're not human anymore, and therefore the "furry" body you'd be inhabiting probably isn't an organic life form but just a shaped machine.

>>4022133
>that feel when a new civilization will rise like it did from the collapse of rome

>>4022148
bullshit. this is the future we're talking about and anything is possible in the future

>>4022148

I don't want to be a furry, just have one to fuck and spend some quality time before I upload into a glorious ~cubic meter of computronium.

>That feel when you were born too early, the only furry thing you'll ever fuck is your dog

>>4022148

>you're not human anymore
>just a shaped machine

>>4022149
>that feel when you'll be among the billions dead

>that feel when cellphones will now be able to fit in your pocket

>that feel when you'll never have an albino dwarf wife

>>4022142
Now I feel obligated to post this.

Who's for melting Phobos via space-based lasers and shaping it into Sagan's smiling face?

>>4022163

Pic related.

>>4022157

This. Humans are so boring in bed, all cock and vaginas look and feel the same and animals aren't capable of speech or emotions like humans are.

>>4022163

No, no, no, I didn't mean it like that. I meant that it's a construction, not the result of genetic engineering so much as the reconstruction of life that we would be presumably capable of post-singularity.

>>4022157

And you can constantly fuck your 10000 furry harem IN the computronium virtual superreality.

>>4022183

Yay! Looks like we got ourselves a new tripfag!

>>4022187

>No, no, no, I didn't mean it like that. I meant that it's a construction, not the result of genetic engineering so much as the reconstruction of life that we would be presumably capable of post-singularity.

Well, technically mind uploading is a reconstruction of life in the machine. At least the life of neurons and neuroglia.

And a simple bodily chemistry model to prevent, you know, sensory deprivation.

>And you can constantly fuck your 10000 furry harem IN the computronium virtual superreality.

I'd presumably have better things to do.

>>4022082
>mfw I get to genetically engineer a replacement body of my own design

>>4022191

>Well, technically mind uploading is a reconstruction of life in the machine. At least the life of neurons and neuroglia.

Yes, but I'm talking about how genetic engineering doesn't enter into the furry equation.

The thing I'm pointing out is "genetic engineering".

>I'd presumably have better things to do.

You will have several billion years to get to it. Perhaps functionally more, presuming the transhuman brain can simulate faster than real-time.

>>4022202

>simulate faster than real-time

Inception-Limbo?

>>4022111

>>4022200
I must say that's remarkably well drawn.

>>4022210

Yep. That would be the "truest" virtual reality.

>>4022191
>I'd presumably have better things to do.
>Not simulating multiple virtual realities at a speed several orders of magnitude superior to the material world inside you.
Why not do both.
(even if stripping your emotions and more importantly boredom away would be more efficient, but where is the fun is that. Not that you would know that it's not fun. Having stipped away emotions and all.)

>>4022221

>expensive technology
>everyone on the ad is white as a ghost

>>4022256
construction worker has a tan

>Atheists 0
>Christians 1

>>4022191
I've said it before and I'll say it again. If I'm to upgrade/trade in my body for a new one there are some conditions:
>It should be mostly biological
>I want an immune system capable of reproducing in other organisms and attacking their bodies.
>I want spider silk or carbon nanotubes woven under my epidermis to prevent penetration/puncture damage
>I want more and denser skeletal muscle
>I want telomerase that works and won't give me cancer
>I want semi-conscious control over healing/repairs. I want to be able to alter the spectrum of my vision and the rod to cone ratio
>I want bones embedded in a carbon nanotube matrix that allows erythrocytes to pass through, but will make them nearly impossible to break/shatter
>I want cardiac muscle that can handle and direct the flow of blood under high gravity conditions, up to 10 g's without problems
>I want my epithelial cells to produce a chitin/melanin shell to minimize radiation exposure... semi-conscious control
>I want venom glands above my canines and conscious control of how my venom glands' genes are expressed (epigenetically) so I can produce a variety of toxins
>I want a nictitating membrane that can be consciously shaped/changed to correct for any number of environments (underwater, low pressure, high pressure, etc.)
>I want a full mammalian diving reflex.
>I want to have conscious control over the emission of pheromones and an olfactory system capable of detecting them at a conscious level

Yeah, that'll do. No furry whatnot, I like the general look/feel of my human body.

>>4022111
I'm buying alot of equipment I could use to create my own stemcell immortality. Get it all before its made illegal.

>>4022293

Anon can't wait until that is part of an upgrade checklist.

Surmise: in the future there will be an aesthetic of "Human" that includes many different sentients. Masses of nanotech, Shirow-style cyborgs, gene-controlled 'normal' humans, etc all looking as human as possible. Even deep in the future the look might be the same but the life forms different. A grey-goop Internet mimicing humanity?

>> upgraded dogs getting plastic surgery to look more human.

>>4022293
WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT PIC

Oh wait, is it photoshop?

>>4022293
Oh yes,

>Emergency photosynthetic mode for my skin
>Ability to re-grow teeth, limbs, etc.
>conscious control over hormone production and concentrations (on-command adrenaline rush, dopamine production, etc.)

>>4022316
The ideal, for me at least, is a human with all the variously useful traits that other life on Earth has. A few technological upgrades of purely human technological origin for good measure, but mostly biological.

Turn man into a creature that's truly dangerous without technology.

>>4022332

http://rifters.com/blindsight/vampires.htm

Listen to the lecture, it's hysterical and kinda awesome.

http://www.motherboard.tv/2011/11/9/motherboard-tv-the-thorium-dream

The Thorium Dream Documentary is up

>>4022339
>Vampires: Biology and Evolution

Dude.

What.

>>4022339

>Turn man into a creature that's truly dangerous without technology.

but

I

what?

IT WOULD ONLY EXIST BECAUSE OF TECHNOLOGY

thorium threads on /sci/ tend to devolve into crazy futurism stuff too quickly.

can we just have a rule about not speculating on anything more than 15 years in the future?
things get silly too quickly otherwise

>>4022370
Just listen to it/watch, you won't regret it.
>>4022374
True, I should have been more precise. I mean making man into something insanely dangerous without tools.

>>4022379
I didn't start it, but I did participate in it. I apologize and accept culpability.

>>4022379

Thorium solves all the problems we have, basically.

The biggest baddie in the next 30 years is how our energy system is dependent upon oil. Thorium topples that in 2 years of study and 8 years of development.

Short of a neo-Cold War, there's.. nothing problematic with the future. It's kind of an odd thing to think about.

>>4022379

Yes but how fast will the world transform itself when in 10 years every major city has control of hundreds of MW clean reactors producing extremely cheap energy. Thorium will change the world just like the Tank changed warfare or the Plane changes travel

>>4022389
>>4022390
this is what i mean by silly...

thorium doesn't replace oil, it just offers a respectably cheaper and safer grid power source, replacing natural gas and coal and traditional nuclear

oil is still necessary for cars, but ELECTRIC CARS will be knocking on oil's door, not throium power. Granted, cheaper grid power makes electric vehicles more attractive to the average consumer

>Thorium will change the world just like the Tank changed warfare or the Plane changes travel
eeeh, thorium will enable a few things, but it's probably not the engine of change you think it is

can we all agree to be a little more reserved and realistic? overall?
>mfw futurism on /sci/

>>4022400
oh and don't get me wrong, throium is probably going to be our best grid power source for the forseeable future.
i'm just saying, keep a level head

>that feel when you will never see the day that the inner-Earth are found
>that feel when you will never breed with an inner-Earthling to seal a royal unity
Feelsbadman

>>4022418
earth is protected by EMR

>inner earth

does not fucking compute

>>4022044
You mean convinced feeble minded people that nothing could go wrong?

>worked for the nuclear age

>>4022461
well it sure looks great on paper, and the msre ran smoothly for 5 years off and on

but yes, it is at it's heart, untested on a commercial scale

>>4022472
I'm just mocking OP's amazement that idiots can be convinced of..well..anything.

Ban me or I delete this thread. You have 10 minutes.

>>4022508
Woah, this comes from what?

>>4022512

Someone must've cracked his tripcode.

>>4022512
I don't want to be tied to 4chan anymore. The vacuum that the loss of 4chan will create will allow me ample time for studying and hopefully achieving those 'pipe-dreams' I always speak of.

A report for rule violation is a vote for post-scarcity!

>>4022521
It certainly is a vote for post scarcity.

>>4022519
No, it's definitely me. But to prove that I don't give a shit, here's my tripcode which I've held secret for over a year now:
Inurdaes #9+4;B?V6

>>4022526
HA HA HA SEE WHAT I DID THERE?
I AM CLEVER.

>>4022525
ah, oh well

i'm not actually aware of any tripping programs that can crack tripcodes, just ones that generate them

unless someone just put "Phobos" into the desired text string of tripper+ and waited like a week for something similar to be spat out

>>4022508
LOOK AT ME GUYS
LOOK
AT
ME

>>4022536
I can assure you unless they're running a supercomputer, it's not gonna happen.

BAN ME.

>>4022508
>implying we care

>>4022536

Replace "week" with "month" and you're gold.

>>4022540

Tripcode generators don't actually utilize a lot of power, they simply take a long time.

>>4022540
Well, some of us here do have access to supercomputers you know...

>>4022575
It's pointless since I've already posted my tripcode.

>>4022536
>not actually aware of any tripping programs that can crack tripcodes, just ones that generate them

There's no functional difference between those two things.

>>4022596
not that you mention it, no i suppose there isn't