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1424956 No.1424956 [Reply] [Original]

>my face when most of us are going to live thousands of years

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

>> No.1424963

Do you really want to live forever?

>> No.1424964

paying taxes for two thousand years?
The hell I am. I am not going to work in a cubicle for 1900 years

>> No.1424966

>I have no face because I'd rather die.

>> No.1424969

>>1424964
I doubt you'll have to do that for 50 years.

>> No.1424973
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>> No.1424975

LET US DIE YOUNG OR LET US LIVE FOREVER

>> No.1424980

Should be dissallowed.

Overpopulation, overpollution, too much humanity

>> No.1424983
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>> No.1424986

I would donate money to this project

>> No.1424987

>>1424964
I think it would be awesome to be employee of the month 250 years running.

>> No.1424989
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>>1424980
I swear to god if you stop me from living centuries I'll fucking kill you.

>> No.1424993

>>1424986
oh wait maybe that's what it is, a scam

>> No.1425001

People can be young forever
delicious loli ~mmm,,,

>> No.1425005

>>1424989

You can also become a christian if this is what you want you retard. "Oh noes I dun wanna die I'm so special"

>> No.1425011

>>1425005
Except that doesn't actually work.

>> No.1425015

>>1425005
Or you know, maybe I want to live in an age where I see humanity break the light speed barrier, superstructures, extraterrestrial life and so on.

>> No.1425023

if we were to become imortals, some things would NEED to be done.

First and most importantly:
Every imortal human should be PERMANETLY STERILYZED, the trade would be simple, if you want to be imortal you can't reproduce during your life spam or the earth will be severely crowded, if you are mortal you can reproduce because you will just live for a while before your children take your place.

>> No.1425039

>>1425015
>>1425015

Ah, yes, but you'll grow up, which makes this my last post.

>> No.1425043

So I just have to survive until 2029? Ok.

>> No.1425055

yey lets all live 1000years and piss away far more then our fair share of natural resources, overpopulate the earth even more and destro hunmanity slowly. sounds fun

>> No.1425057

>>1425023
What if we find shitloads of other habitable planets ~1000 years after this?
I would personally be fine with being sterilized as long as I had some frozen or something.

>> No.1425069

>>1425055

Humanity destroying itself AND it's environement.

I really don't want to see humanity as a filthy "virus" like species, but then this thread...

>> No.1425073

>>1425055
Well, if we artificially limit the number of births (sterilization?) we wont overpopulate.

Our 'fair share' of natural resources? What's that? Is there some magical number of natural resources that is bestowed on us at birth that it is fair we use? If these anti-aging treatments are widespread, wouldn't that mean that our 'fair share' increased at the point we receive the treatment? Oh subjectivity, you whiny little dog.

>> No.1425074

>>1425055

Well, the truly most noble souls among us willing to sacrifice their longevity (such as yourself) can go ahead and die while I change my name to Tassadar and REIGN OVER THE GALAXY.

>> No.1425083

>>1425073

ever felt ashamed when one of your friends or someone you know did something really stupid publicwise and you facepalm because it's fucking embarrassing just to know this guy?

This is how I feel sometimes being a human

>> No.1425087

>>1425055
Bullshit, when we overcrowd the earth, we move to the stars- its just that simple.

>> No.1425088

>>1425057
The problem is getting there... :/

Try to imagine a bunch of imortals playing cars to pass the time in a ship that will take, I don' know, 500 years to reach it's destiny.

>> No.1425093

well, it's not just dying from old age, we'll probably die of diseases/accidents/violence long before we reach 1000

>> No.1425102

>>1425088
cars = carDs

typo...

>> No.1425107

>>1425093
>we'll probably die of diseases/accidents/violence long before we reach 1000
Diseases, probably not.
Accidents, just look both ways before crossing the damn road.
Violence? What violence? Just don't piss off the wrong people.

>> No.1425113

>>1425107

You fail, kid

>> No.1425118

>>1425113
No, YOU'LL fail when you get yourself kill'd like a damn fool while I live 1 billions of years.

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>>1425113

>> No.1425130

sure is pessimism itt

>> No.1425131

Slightly related to the topic, does anyone know about the story where it's like a narrator talking about the advanced human race and aliens, and how the aliens are jealous of us because 'We knew the universe when it was young" ?

>> No.1425138

>>1425131
That sounds stupid. Stop reading garbage.

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>>1425138
Someone didn't get screwed last night.

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>>1425118

>your face when you can't control others

>> No.1425155

>>1425148
I see what you did there

>> No.1425166

and as usual, the biggest enemy to imortality would be religion because you know, "life is just a passage to the other life" and all that bullshit. Religious poeple would be torn with the desire to be imortal, would they risk having an extended life and then going to hell if they die? Since many of them are cowards, they would try everything to simply shut down the whole project before they are bombarded with choice between imortality or their fath.

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1425182

>Possibility of immortality
>"lol no thanks like i want that shit"

>> No.1425186

>>1425166

Sure some people will oppose to immortality for religious reasons, but I GUESS YOU CAN'T MAKE EVERYONE HAPPY BOO HOO.

The only thing we have to do is prevent them from suicide bombing immortality clinics to prevent others from achieving it, because hurr durr they dun believe i must make them unite with god hurp durp. A lot will do that. Tread carefully.

>> No.1425192

>implying OP won't get hit by a bus shortly after making his point

>> No.1425201

I for one would like to live for a long time, not just for the pleasures of life, but I want to see the technological advances that will come by time

>> No.1425231

This topic drives me crazy, and Im used to hearing it from religious nuts, but you /sci/?

Come on, can you even conceive of that type of lifespan? Are you serious? Its like all these people pining for eternity in heaven, who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy day.

>> No.1425266

>read article
>hm this is pretty cool
>check date published
>December 2009
>didn't hear about it till now
>realize it's not a success

>> No.1425287

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>> No.1425296

>>1425231
>Ray Kurzweil
>Religious nuts

lol

>> No.1425297

>>1425231
Fuck you bro, I wanna become a little girl one day and that type of body modification is only available in the future.

>> No.1425310

>>1425297
or maybe a robot with x-ray vision and big chain saw hands then I can take part in the human robot wars of the future

>> No.1425313
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>>1425266
>didn't wipe out aging in less than a year
>obviously a total failure
yea...

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1425326

>people thing that this will cause over population, other faggotry etc....

SPACE IS FUCKING HUGE PEOPLE

>> No.1425340

>>1425266
>didn't realise it said by 2029
>doesn't realise they're researching it right now

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>>1425326
You now realize that if you live long enough and see the advent of warp drives that you may be able to have your own personal habitable planet in a couple thousand years.

>> No.1425358

>>1424956
Transhumanism is for scared little children so terrified of the idea of death that they have to masquerade their fears under the guise of science.

>> No.1425359

TL;DR
but
so would we be old for the rest of our lives and just be an immobile vegetable or what?

>> No.1425360

>>1424964
He's right.

No one living that long will work in a fucking 6 foot square box for eternity.

That's a fate worse than death.

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1425361

You guys do realize this is a solution to NATURAL death? You know, not the other million things that can kill you.

>> No.1425363

I'll be to old to care by then

>> No.1425368

>>1425361
hey patrick, i bet you can't see your own forhead

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>>1425359
>end aging
>>1425361
Yes. But the fact is, with this, I will be ABLE to live long enough till they get nanobots that basically make you indestructible. Or some other technology.

>> No.1425373

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>> No.1425374

>>1425361
And what might those be?

The cure for cancer will come within 10 years.
Diseases will be nothing once we have nanotechnology.
Cars will be automated. No more drunkard drivers.
Organ failure? No problem, stem cells and organ transplants.

The only problem I see is if you don't have enough money to afford new technology.

>> No.1425385

>>1425297
why the fuck do you want to become a little girl??

Wait! I dont even want to know...

>> No.1425387

>>1425374
>idiot trying to tell people about what's going to happen in the future
>clearly has never worked in a laboratory or in research
TRULY THE NOSTRADAMUS OF OUR TIME.

>> No.1425391
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>>1425374
>>1425370

>> No.1425393

>>1425387
>>1425374
Bitches don't know about my Dichloroacetate

>> No.1425397

>>1425374
You must be a troll or too stupid to realize that nanotechnology is not a synonym for magic.

>> No.1425412

>>1425397
You must be stupid to not realize nanotechnology can kill diseases if small enough. Nanobots, man. Nanobots.

>> No.1425423

>>1425412
A bullet still kills you, or a bus, or an axe, or a plasma rifle. A FUCKING PLASMA RIFLE.

>> No.1425425

>>1425385

Wants to be a trap or Loli i bet.

I just wanna be the first dude to plant his boots on another world and claim it in humanities name.

And maybe fuck a few alien babes, but that's totally vanilla for /sci/

If they had tails man... Oh god what I would do to them with that tail...

>> No.1425435

>>1425387
>>1425397
You guys are idiots or ignorant dinosaurs.

Cancer WILL be cured within a few, if not this decade, once we discover more about human DNA and cell metabolism. Nanobots can go inside our bodies and kill diseases.

Enjoy dying, faggots.

>> No.1425437

>>1425425
lol... I would fuck alien babes, too, but tales man? TALES?

>> No.1425447

>>1425412
Med student here:
Walk me through the cure to heart disease through nanobots?
Cancer?
Diabetes?
.
It's a lot harder to come up with solutions when they have to be realistic :)

>> No.1425453

>>1425437
Yes tales.

We shall sit around camp fires and tell tales of the times we had our way with alien wenches, grinding on our cocks and egging for some prime white human meat.

No tails fuck bag, you know like the shit you could use to pick stuff up with? those.

Come on fucking an alien babe's vag and then having her own tail in her ass would be fun.

Or if you're feeling a bit fruity maybe they could fuck you with the tail? Who knows the possibilities are endless.

>> No.1425457

This thread went full retard.

>> No.1425461

>>1425435
You're going to be a fucking wreck when you place all your hopes in "the magic of science" to save you from death, only to find out that none of these things work the way you thought they did. You'll have no one to blame because NO SCIENTIST ACTUALLY TOLD YOU THAT.
It's gonna hit you pretty hard, man.

>> No.1425462

>>1424956
Great news.
Are they going to sterilize anyone who is treated to live that long? Otherwise the phrase "population pressure" is going to be woefully inadequate in describing the problem..

>> No.1425473

if we had nanomachines down to a tee, would it not be possible to build up resources from base elements (i.e star trek)? thus doing away the fears of over consumption?

>> No.1425475

>>1425447
Gold quantum dots can be used to kill cancer, the leaky pipe like veins of the tumour allow the gold nanoshells to accumulate in the tumour, and with a low power laser shone on them they emit heat and burn the tumour out but leave surrounding tissues un harmed.

Not full out mini fighter jets firing mini nukes at cancer or anything but still nano-ish

>> No.1425484

Overpopulation isn't an issue. Birth rates have been dropping substantially in all developed countries. China have already stopped mass breeding. We just need to tell the fucking Indians to stop.

>> No.1425485

>>1425473
We could but without a massive swarm of the bots building anything would be slow and laborious, but cool to watch something just grow over time.

>> No.1425510

>>1425484
you really believe that?

>> No.1425512

>>1425453
try fucking a monkey... looks sort of humanoid and has a tail.

>> No.1425520

>>1425512
Whao

There's a difference dude, I prefer sentience in my partner.

And I don't mean I wanna fuck an animal.

Just a chick with a tail, just once cause let's face it, it would be cool to try it out.

>> No.1425532

>>1425520
Sure it would be cool. Since you will most likely not have the opportunity to fuck an alien chick, you have to hope that virtual reality will be advanced enough in your life time...

>> No.1425541

>>1425023

Most women stop being fertile at 50yrs, I don't think this project could or would want to change that

>> No.1425550

>>1424980
You can kill yourself and help solving the overpopulation issue.

>> No.1425562

>>1425023
Hmm, live forever and not fulfil instinct.

Fulfil instinct and die.

I choose option three, take both.

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>>1425231
Maybe you can't.
But that's your limit, and you expect other to be bound to it.

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1425581

ok guys lets be tolerant

>> No.1425583

>>1424956
The real good news is that space exploration will become as necessity and the only really working solution for overpopulation.

>> No.1425587

>>1425532
If I can live forever (hopefully) I'll just over time when I can afford it get other genetic therapy for stronger muscles and the like and then train to be a space man and go exploring and shit.

I dunno I suppose I'm just being a blind optimist for once instead of my realistic self, aw well shit.

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1425592

>>1425581

>implying you wouldn't want to cuddle with a genetically-engineered super-furry

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>>1425592
>cuddle

I DON'T THINK SO

>> No.1425603
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1425603

This is future

>> No.1425604

>>1425569
make a haiku out of it:

Maybe you can not.
that's your limit, and you want
them be bound to it

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1425609

>>1425592
needs moar giant genitalia

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>>1425592
Having a pet you can talk with and communicate just like a human would be cool. No furry secks though.

>> No.1425621

>>1425603
That's a horrible design.

Look at all the weak spots.

A chain is only as strong as it's weakest link.

>> No.1425624
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>>1425602

To be honest if Craig Venter went nuts and made super-furries I'd probably... Ugh, try to have some meaningful relationship with one instead of going all HAHA DELICIOUS XENOPHILIA.

Pic related.

But seriously what is wrong with me?

>> No.1425628

>>1425621
What weakspots

>> No.1425634
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1425634

>>1425624
You went on 4chan.

>> No.1425648

>>1425628

He's being picky.

>> No.1425655

>>1425628
Ankle joints, break the strands there and you think the guy in it can move all that weight on his own? He's be a sitting duck.

And as with every piece of armour, the arm pit and side of the ribs.

Middle of the neck, if that was made to rigid then it would impede movement.

Now if it was covered with ceramic plating then it would be good, or perhaps carbon fibre and epoxy resin strengthened with carbon nanotubes.

Other wise even a strong blade would tear that thing apart.

>> No.1425657

>>1425541
Side argument: if there was the technology to create happy slaves, would you?

>> No.1425658

>>1425634

Ah, of course.

The huge amounts of porn on this site sort of backfired on me, so instead of trying to fuck any hypothetical super-furry, I would try to have a relationship with it? That... Is crazy enough to make sense.

If I was the dude on that picture my face probably wouldn't be of surprise, more like... Disgust.

"Eeewww that's touching, in public! how gross 3:"

>> No.1425668

>>1425655
The nanosuit is very light, it's not like an exoskeleton in the sense of hydralics, metal framing, etc. It's literally a suit of ceramic plating and faux-muscles that enhance the user's own strength.

>> No.1425673

>>1425658
The guy in that picture looks exactly like a dude i know.

Even down to the vacant yet terror filled look on his face.

>> No.1425677

>>1425658
Why is it my face would be of joy or happiness?

I dont want to have sex or a relationship with furries.

Am I normal? WHAT THE FUCK?

>> No.1425685

>>1425677

lol dude having a relationship with a normal, non-spliced human would be cool too. I have no preference either way.

But a super-furry would be more... Exotic. Exotism ftw.

>> No.1425690

>>1425668
Has to have a power source, and a well placed bullet is going clean through that guys leg.

It might strengthen him but at the expense of protection.

Yeah I know in the games it's like a sooper dooper wonder suit that makes you a Badassery Incarnate but really it would never work like that in real life, it would look a lot more like an armoured mech/mini gundam crossed with that.

>> No.1425691

>>1425685

>Can't get off to normal wimminz because it brings back The Memories

>> No.1425701

>>1425691
>Implying fetishism and preferences is black and white

>> No.1425702

>>1425690
The faux-muscle is coated with a regenerative plating. The suit is powered by sunlight, friction, and something else (forgot what they said). Depending on the suit mode, the bullet will either go straight through the suit and into you, or disintegrate when impacting the suit while the suit absorbs the shock and sheds off protective coating which comes back anyway through recharging/regenerating (not instantly)

>> No.1425717

>>1425702
>and something else
Piezoelectric?

>> No.1425725

>>1425702
Where does it get the raw material to regenerate the coating?

Personally I'll just prefer tanks made of meta materials capable of bending visible and infra red light around them.

>> No.1425733

>>1425717
Nah, had something to do with the surrounding atmosphere or some bullshit. It's game sci-fi anyway, just reiterating what Crytek spat out in some PDF they had on the new nanosuit.

>> No.1425739

>>1425690

The nanosuit has a lot more practicality to it than any other suit that has been conceived so far. I know we can only talk hypothetically here, but has anyone ever considered how hard it would be to move quickly and swiftly in a suit such as the one iron man wears?

so lets exclude the flying bit (that is truly ridiculous) and lets look at the fact it is made of metal plating. This alone would make it impractical to crawl, climb and do other things in. Medieval suits had large weaknesses to them in the areas where plate would be too restricting.

The fact that the artificial muscles act as a source of strength and protection seems far more practical than having a laying of plate and then hydraulics underneath. I am sure that these types of muscles could be developed using materials that harden when hit with high velocity rounds by are more pliable when being moved.

There are no weakspots except the helmet goggles anyway.

>> No.1425742

>>1425702
How exactly do you intend to have the suit absorb the shock? I mean, for a regular bullet, yes. We already have bulletproof armor. But if everyone had nanosuits, we'd just use anti-tank weapons. And there's no way in hell you're absorbing a shot from an anti-tank weapon.

>> No.1425744

>>1425691

That's... Possible.

>> No.1425748

>>1425742

Maybe some automagical way to transfer forces almost instantly from the impact area to the ground.

Cons: Person would most likely fly off.

>> No.1425750

Not sure if that's a good thing. One of the beauties of life is its inherent finiteness. Conquering that is cool, but not necessarily desirable.

>> No.1425754

>>1425739
There's no reason an iron-man style suit should be remotely awkward, with a computer in it. It can recognize your intent and act accordingly.

Plus, it can have cameras and move on its own to save your ass, eg, to dodge bullets.

>> No.1425758

>>1425677
Oh wait, I forgot that I am attracted to >12 year old girls.

Am I still normal?

>> No.1425766

>>1425750

Well, clinical immortality is not forever.

Even if you outlived the stars, in the end, Entropy takes everything away.

>> No.1425774

Fuck, I'm really going to become a perma-virgin.

>> No.1425778

>>1425739
Dude.

I meant use nano muscle fibres and coat it with and a modular scale like coating of carbon fibre, carbon nano tubes and epoxy resin and non Newtonian liquid or liquid crystals that harden under impact.

Much more efficient and risks less damage to the vital systems underneath.

Allowing in extreme moments for a display of force and brutality, a good old bayonet charge.

>> No.1425783

>>1425766
Did you think of Asimov when you read the article?

>> No.1425788

Everyone here needs to get a copy of Eclipse Phase.

>> No.1425790

>>1425750
Uh, no. Yeah, there's some beauty in fragility, but there's also beauty in permanence - tell me the pyramids aren't more majestic for being thousands of years old.

Besides, you'd really give up another few centuries of life just because fragility is beautiful?

>> No.1425795

So I have to make it to 43!? Fuck.

>> No.1425799

>>1425783

Well... Yes.

>> No.1425803

>>1425783
THERE IS INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR A MEANINGFUL ANSWER.

>> No.1425806

>>1425790
The Pyramids don't believe in God or vote Republican.

>> No.1425816

ceramic or metal armor plates will never be practical or properly protective in an armor suit. Bulletproof armor is still pretty inferior, and weighs a lot, and can only protect thighs and chest.

in order for any suit to ever be truly versatile, it must have some form of flexible armor, which is shown in the nanosuit. But this can only be discussed in hypothetical terms, even the suit in the game has been developed 20yrs from now.

artificial muscles are the way to go; we could always construct them out of nanomachine clusters or something rather

>> No.1425821

>>1425657

Holy shit, House Elves from Harry Potter.

Make it so.

>> No.1425822

>>1425806
...that wasn't relevant in any way except for the object of the sentence.

>> No.1425824

Maybe in a few centuries, but by 2029? I'm not convinced.

>> No.1425835

>>1425822
I'm just joking. Not sure if I like the idea of living for thousands of years with the same people alive today.

>> No.1425841

suit can "cannibalize" carboniferous matter into energy, not sure if that includes actually dissolving matter into energy though... you could still utilize the energy in the chemical bonds

>> No.1425846

>>1425835
There's nearly seven billion people. You can't have met a significant fraction of them.

If it gets too stuffy, a century or two on, you'll probably be able to get on a massive colony ship, anyway.

>> No.1425852

>>1425816

Dude, nano muscles.

With a layer of non newtonian liquid above it as a jacket or a skin.

Mix it with a coagulant so that when there is leak from a shot it patches itself up.

Then a pressure and liquid sensor in the suit to detect when the levels of the armour liquid are falling the suit pressurises to keep the liquid everywhere instead of draining out the suit and leaving the chest exposed due to gravity.

I like think bout this shit, I wanna work for DARPA.

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1425853

>>1425816

>> No.1425858

Well, it's not like you won't die eventually, so you might as well stick around for a bit.

Shit, we'll be Asari!

>> No.1425860

>>1425841
There's no way in hell we're converting the lower elements directly into energy for hundreds of years.

>> No.1425871

I'm going to live forever or die trying!

>> No.1425904
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>My face when Justin Bieber will live forever.

>> No.1425919

>>1425904
No, he just won't die a natural death. Which was pretty unlikely anyway.

>> No.1425920
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>>1425904

>My face when Justin Baiber is exiled on a relativistic ship after people find out he's immortal
>Now "he" is no longer our problem, he'll be the problem of whomever lives in the Lesser Cloud!

>> No.1425936

>>1425904
GOD DAMN IT, CAN'T UNTHINK

>> No.1425946

Quess what, because of quantum perspective. It's impossible for any observer to ever stop observing. So, as your life continues to collapse possible ways for you to die, from your point of view, (and ultimately only yours) you will live forever, alone in the black void after the last star dies.

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>>1425904
My face when A bio engineered rage addicted serial killer will kill him for us all.

>> No.1425951

>>1425904
Eternal Muslims!

>> No.1425952
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1425952

It doesn't matter if x shitty pop star will live forever. For they will know a time when the world loved them, and then turned their back on them. They will forever have to live with the knowledge that they will never be great again.

>> No.1425966

Despite all of the advances it'll bring, I'll still find a reason to prefer death.

>> No.1425972

>>1425946
Nah when the stars die we die.

Big Rip man.

Either that or we could make a new star for us out of heavier elements.

Come on after colliding enough planets into each other at some point fusion WILL begin.

Shit will be fucking crazy.

>> No.1425973

>>1425966
Yes but you'll have the OPTION of living forever.
That enough is to bring a tear to my eye.

>> No.1425980

>>1425972

Iron takes more energy to fuse than the output it provides.

>> No.1425986

What is the likelihood of this happening in our lifetimes? I mean, it says 2029, but can we believe that?

>> No.1425990

>>1425980
Yeah but the pressures at the centre and gravity should keep it going.

Not saying it would be as good as todays stars but hey, it's better than eternal blackness.

>> No.1425993

No! I want my cyberpunk collective unconscious, not this!

>> No.1426003

>>1425986
In our lifetime? Definitely.
In 2029? Probably not.

>> No.1426019

where did the year 29 come from???

>> No.1426028
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1426028

>My face when I die in a car crash or something gay like that right before my delicious immortality is available.

>> No.1426044

>>1425990
No sir, over time everything is consumed by blackholes, which then slowly weep all matter and energy back out into empty space as low energy photons as hawking radiation. But because of quantum perspective (google quantum suicide for info) you'll narrow down parallel universes until the only one left with you surviving to observe is your conscious mind locked in some ancient platform floating in empty space forever.

>> No.1426050

>>1425986
It will happen in the next hundred years.

And I see it happening around 2030ish all that has to happen is what they say, make life extension more advanced and use it on people over time and then we can survive indefinitely.

Hopefully it won't be like going to a hospital once every year to get a top up genetic adaptation. Shit would be fucking annoying.

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1426064

I don't expect to live till heat death or something similar. I probably won't make it past 100 million. But damn, I am going to have fun those 100 million years in any way possible.

>> No.1426072

>>1426044
Quantum perspective is a cop out dude.

You die.

I mean YOU you, other you lives indefinetly and becomes a god and learns to wield the vacuous energy of the fabric of space and recreate everything from nothing.

Wait a minute...

>> No.1426077

>>1426028
This'll probably happen to me too.

>> No.1426080

I'm actually counting on religious people to reject this as "blasphemous" or something.

>> No.1426082

I'm not sure if the already LIVING generations will be able to become immortal, it seems a much more logical thing to develop an immortal human from the begining that try fixing the ones that are already dying.

>> No.1426087

>>1425986
Take it with a huge grain of salt. Don't make plans needing more than a hundred years to flower, eg.

>> No.1426104

>>1426072
But that's just it, YOU you don't die. The you all your friends know dies in normal ways. Car crashes old age. But the YOU you from your perspective will continue to exist in smaller and smaller probabilities of parallel universes. Every conscious observer who has ever lived is still alive in some parallel universe. Now, the how of how they are still observing isn't very picky, just as long as they are.

>> No.1426106

>>1426082
It might be easier, but as a scientist, which is going to be your priority - achieving immortality for future generations, or for your generation? You know, the generation you're part of?

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1426109

/sci/, right now I am going to make me some green tea, and I'm going to stop eating unhealthy shit and I am going to work out. Anything that will make me live a little longer. I invite you to join me.

>> No.1426112

>>1426106
Future generations.

>> No.1426115

>>1426104
I wasn't aware quantum mechanics had defined "conscious".

>> No.1426120

>>1426112
Clearly your genome is broken.

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>>1426120
Something wrong?

>> No.1426133

>>1426104
But the thing is, your consciousness of this universe dies.

IT exists as a sort of back up in a sense on some dusty old universe but the acting consciousness of you dies.

We know this because we aren't aware of multiple universes or consciousnesses.

>> No.1426137

>>1426115
Think, observer. A conscious mind is point of reference to observer from, no matter what, your can not stop observing. Either it be observing your own dreams, observing nothing, or perceiving the world through your senses. Shit, this also means an afterlife works according the quantum mechanics, as long as you don't stop observing...sometime.

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>>1426104
WTF

>> No.1426143

Well, the catch is that, assuming you want to be a part of this, you probably have to be a science major (what you major in determines your future), reasonably wealthy (poor people are a drain on society), fit (fat people are worthless), and not of poor genetic descent (history of cancer or heart disease).

>> No.1426146

>>1426109
Whatever I do I'm fucked soon.

Fast metabolism, and folk with higher metabolisms tend to die a little younger.

I eat like 6 meals a day and I'm almost under weight.

yeah....

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>>1426143
Well, I'm in.

>> No.1426156

>>1426146
Yeah, but you probably just need to make it to 50 or 60.

>> No.1426158

>>1426133
I'd say we aren't aware of our multi parallel paths, ones we die in, is because you stop observing those when you die. And since time is actually instantaneous when viewed from higher dimensions, our "future" is really already in play when it comes to what we observe.

>> No.1426168

>>1426148
You also have to be the opposite of the one thing you're insecure about.

>> No.1426174

>>1426143
Or be a test subject.

Which I'm willing to do as long as they send my as into space to some distant world.

>> No.1426179

>>1426168
What?
Like, not be scared of death?
I'm not. I prefer life.

>> No.1426185

>>1426158
It just accrued to me, this whole quantum perspective thing might be how ghosts work, disembodied conscious minds drifting without form. If that's true, then being a ghost will fucking suck when the earth is destroyed in 10 billion years and their just floating in space, haunting emptiness.

>> No.1426186

>>1426158
I wonder if the core of conciousness exists in another dimension where life or death is irrelevant, like as soon as the current point of view (you) dies another point of view is chosen to continue the observation.

>> No.1426187

>>1426174
I'll see your ass on the frontier, bro. I'm going to live and die an adventurer in the name of science and progress!

>> No.1426188

>>1426143
Sounds good to me. Although my dual physics/comp sci major will also leave me well prepared for the transhumanism revolution, should that happen first.

>>1426168
I'm insecure about my weight, because I was a fatass for a year and a half in high school, but I've got it down to the low end of optimal right now. So works for me!

>> No.1426190

>>1426179
Like, if you're short only tall people are allowed.

No one is allowed to win.

>> No.1426193

If this technology is possible, it'd only be available to the wealthy.

>> No.1426200

>>1426186
Man I hope it's this and not this:
>>1426185

>> No.1426211

>>1426193
Long term it will be available to everyone. Personally, I don't want any part of this. I'd loath to live forever, I've got an entire afterlife of who knows what to explore. And if it's that quantum perspective thing anyway, then it doesn't matter, since nothing will change long term.

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>>1426188
>physics/comp sci
I have bad news. No double majors in physics and comp sci allowed.

Sorry.

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1426217

>he still believes in an afterlife

>> No.1426218

>>1426193
at first yes, but every technology evolves QUICKLY, so soon enough even the poor would have their share of hundreds of years to live.

>> No.1426220

Lobsters hold the genetic secret to the fountain of youth.

>> No.1426223

>>1426211
If you'd read the article, the plan is not to make people live forever. The plan is to effectively eliminate natural death. You'd die eventually (P->1 as t-><span class="math">\infty[/spoiler]) of an accident, murder, or suicide.

>> No.1426224

Crap. I picked a horrible time to join the military.

>> No.1426229

>>1426218

Considering the human population is growing exponentially, do you really think the wealthy and powerful want us peasants to live forever?

>> No.1426234

go(o)d news: Creationists are starting to hand out Master Degrees in Biblical studies.

>> No.1426236

>>1426218
This, in my life cell phones when from wealthy status symbol to "wait a second, that transient has a better phone than me, fuuuuu"

>> No.1426237

>>1426223

what if you live in a bubble?

>> No.1426240

im not interested in living that long.

>> No.1426241

>>1426223
>(P->1 as t-><span class="math">\infty[/spoiler])
Ah, I see. I'm a political science major, but I can clearly tell that, according to these runes, the probability of dying due to unnatural causes is closer to one as time stretches towards some kind of horizontal eight.

>> No.1426242

>>1426223
Why would anyone be so irresponsible as to think people living hundreds of years is a good idea. We're already stressing the planet to the max just living 60 years on average. Now, after we get into space in a serious way, then it's fine, but not until then.

>> No.1426244

>>1426237
Eternity awaits, though you'll may go mad from boredom.

>> No.1426248

>>1426223

define natural death.

>> No.1426252

>>1426229
That's why I said in the begining of the thread that those who choose to be immortal shouldn't be allowed to reproduce AT ALL.

>> No.1426254

I liked transhumanism better.

>> No.1426258

>>1426242
"We" are not stressing out the planet at all. Our practices are, and we can change those practices quite easily. Also, there is this sort of big space that we can move to called 'the universe'. it's a few times bigger than Earth.

>> No.1426260

>>1426236
From Gordon Gekko to street walker in 20 years. Now that's progress.

>> No.1426264

>>1426224
Rest easy. The military gets all the cool stuff before the public.

>> No.1426266

>>1426242
There's no reason to expect we won't get off-planet within a century or two. (Look at how much the world has changed in two centuries - it was only 150 years ago the existence of radio waves was hypothesized.)

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>>1426258
It's like you didn't even read my whole post. What's wrong with you?

>> No.1426273

>>1426229
Wrong, it's growing logistically. A significant difference. The industrialized world barely maintains replacement. As Africa, India, and South America industrialize, population will continue to grow, but slower and slower.

>> No.1426276

>>1426270
It's called sleep deprivation and this thread has been moving very fast for a /sci/ thread.

>> No.1426280

I'll kill anyone attempting to destroy Gods will of heaven and hell. We must all die naturally and this is a sin. All of you must repent. Those "scientists" contributing to the manhattan beach project are going to get stopped, by me and fellow faith soldiers. This is all imoral and must STOP. Jesus christ will save you all and stay away from EVIL so called "scientists" ! ! !

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>>1426280
Oh, fuck.

>> No.1426290

How about we just cure cancer, hmmm? You do know that even if we stop aging, eventually disease is going to get us in some way. Or an accident, it's just a matter of time.

Anyway I call BS on this whole thing.

>> No.1426293

>>1426229
Dude, you have internet and, obviously, free time. By any global standard, you're in the top of the "wealthy and powerful" tier.

>> No.1426294

>>1426266
I wonder if it's like this for all advanced lifeforms that get past the first round of nuclear self-extinction? The Cuban missile crisis was a real turning point for us I think.

>> No.1426297

>>1426290
But cancer is already cured.
Dichloroacetate.

>> No.1426301

This is pretty cool, and you shouldn't be afraid of dying before it happens. Even if you die, someone will remember you for a long time, and they will never forget what you meant to them.

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my face when im still a virgin after i have lived for thousands of years

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>>1426280
Enjoy your visit from the Atheist death-commandos, broseph.

>> No.1426308

>>1426302
Immersive completely realistic with all senses virtual reality will be available before then.

>> No.1426312

>>1426302
Come on, if you've lived a thousand years and haven't build a sex-bot, you're not doing the whole "life" thing right.

>> No.1426320

>>1426297
http://scienceblogs.com/terrasig/2010/05/dichloroacetate_dca_brain_canc.php
>huurr i'm a duurrr

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>My face when I realize the 2029 estimate is probably optimistic and that most of us will die a decade or two before it comes out.

>> No.1426326

>>1426290
>>1426297
There's a hundred thousand different forms of cancer with as many causes. There is not and never will be any one cure.

>> No.1426328

When can I download wikipedia to my brain?

>> No.1426339

>>1426323
We're going to be the last generation of mortals!

We'll be legends!

>> No.1426340

>>1426308
Somehow, I suspect that this will be what finally wipes out mankind.

People just plug themselves into the Matrix, and live in a perfect virtual reality until some cosmic disaster destroys Earth, with nobody even knowing the end is coming.

>> No.1426344

>>1426328
Probably before 2050

>> No.1426348

I really want this to work. As a history major, the mere concept of prolonged life, even by just a century or two, is beautiful beyond words.

>> No.1426352

>>1426328
Well, if you're willing to take liberties with the definition of "brain" or to get surgery to implant a couple microsd cards in your gray matter:

http://download.wikimedia.org/enwiki/latest/

>> No.1426353

>>1426339
>we'll be legends
Like the last man to die of smallpox, right?

Oh right, nobody gives a shit about him.

>> No.1426354

>>1426339
If this immortal thing really happens, we'll be preserving our dna for when they can bring us back. Fuck ya, Walt Disney will be alive when we all wake up.

>> No.1426355

>>1426288
>>1426303

You think i'm kidding? I've had enough of your abortion/communist strolling. If you do this it's over. I won't let this happen. God is almighty and I have his blessing. You think you can just come and create LIFE and avoid GOD? Who do you think you are? You are nothing. The lord can still save you kiddo, if you want my mail I can help you. This is it, Gods army or Devils, you decide coolface.

>> No.1426357

>>1426187
...I'm just doing it in the name of shits and giggles and building an orbital rail gun to defend my own little colony.

It shall be good, I shall have a harem of all different kinds of babes.

Furries, goths, emo's, scene kids, sub chicks and dominatrices.

I shall also grow genetically altered super weed and LSD producing plants and becoming a lord of all things awesome.

/fantasy of awesome

>> No.1426363

Given the option, I'd rather have a machine body, than an immortal flesh one. Fuck ya, time has no meaning, I'd travel through so much space!

>> No.1426365

>>1426354
Your DNA is not you. You will die and a copy of you will be made.

This is NOT what I want at all.

>> No.1426374

>>1426365
i'mokwiththisface.jpg

>> No.1426375

>>1426353
I was just joking, but there's a difference between the last man to die from X and the last man to die. Period.

Our children, barring some great catastrophe, will be the only parentless generation left. That's incredible.

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>>1426355
>>1426280

Having fun there thinly veiled troll?

>> No.1426381

>>1426340
I dunno. I could never do this. There's no satisfaction or content in doing things if they're not real.

And you know there would always be technophobes, luddites, and loners who'd avoid plugging in just so they could have the run of the planet.

>> No.1426382

OH GOD SOMEONE PLAY THE DA VINCI CODE MUSIC!

>> No.1426384

>implying that the world isn't going to end before 2029

>> No.1426385

>>1426375
Motherfucking elder elites. Fuck ya!

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My face when you all perish in ragnarok

>> No.1426390

>>1426365
Well, maybe in a houndred years we will be able to save all our experiences and memories into a backup .zip file. And then just install it into a clone if we die from some accident.

>> No.1426391

>>1426380
Ssshhh, it's a meta-troll. The objective is to troll so shittily that you call it on trolling. Just ignore it until it goes away.

>> No.1426392

>>1426386
lol'd, I lol'd hard.

>> No.1426393

>>1426355
Look, christ-troll, there is a specific gene that predispose individuals to faith. That means a virus could be engineered to kill every zealot on earth, while leaving the rest of us intact.

Amusingly enough, you fools would probably think it was the Rapture...

>> No.1426394

>>1426382
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDbYT2O93S8

>> No.1426397

>>1426386
Can you think of a better way to go?

>> No.1426408

>>1426386
Ragnarok would be awesome.
SWORD IN MY HAND, AXE ON MY SIDE !

>> No.1426409

>>1426354

DNA clone is a separate consciousness. It isn't you. You die and never wake up, the clone is just a copy that thinks it is you.

Then again, Neurologists have yet to fully understand consciousness so we have no proof that our consciousness doesn't simply end every night when we sleep and the awakened re-boot of our brain is a new consciousness with all old memories. We actually only live 16 hours. Mindfuck.

>> No.1426411

>>1426394
FUCK YES!

THIS FUTURE IS BEFORE US!

>> No.1426413

>>1426386
I forget, if I've lead a honorable warriors life and die in my old age, do I get Valhalla, or do I HAVE to die in battle?

>> No.1426414

>>1426386
> Ragnarok
I'm cool with that.

I just want to be sure I don't die before all the fun starts.

>> No.1426422

>>1426409
quantum perspective. We never die no matter what.

>> No.1426423

>>1426413
The hallowed halls of Valhalla are reserved for the noble souls who perish in mortal combat.

>> No.1426426

I think one problem in talking about it is that we want to pick a point in time and define it as a sudden shift from business as usual to immortality in a syringe, when it will be (and is) a tapered thing, within 10-15 years there will be some very nice ‘off the shelf’ host stem cell based therapies for a number of degenerative diseases and infections, in 2050 there will likely be a one-shot nanowhatsit cell repair system, and an curve between them with somewhat expensive and uncomfortable while being treated but effective age stopper probably around 2035.

>> No.1426427

>>1426397
Internal crushing from someone busting a massive load in your ass as you have the best orgasm of your life.

And you know that shit WILL have happened somewhere.

>> No.1426428

>>1426413
You have to have to die for a cause to get to Valhalla, the cause in this case being fighting for the glorious dawn.

>> No.1426430

>>1426413
Those who do not die in battle, but have lived a honorable life get to live with others in Freyja's glorius field, where there will be the finest mead and meat.

>> No.1426434

>>1426386
I can live with that...wait...

>> No.1426441

>>1426414
It's already begun. You may not notice it, but we really do live in an incredible age. Sagan was right, and it is our duty, if not for ourselves, then for those who have paved the way, to seize the future or die trying.

>> No.1426444

>>1426423
God damn it, Army soldier here. I've sent a few of my brothers of battle to Valhalla, but I will not likely join them since I've already finished my term of service. All joking aside, this leaves a huge hole in my heart.

>> No.1426445

>>1426413
Must die in battle.

Only worthy death for an immortal anyway.

>> No.1426447

Those who are not honorable and do bad deeds are sent to hel where they will be set in darkness and chains forever untill ragnarok.

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>>1426409

>>
Then again, Neurologists have yet to fully understand consciousness so we have no proof that our consciousness doesn't simply end every night when we sleep and the awakened re-boot of our brain is a new consciousness with all old memories. We actually only live 16 hours.

Wat.

Seriously is this a troll? Can someone else confirm this faggotry?

>> No.1426452

>>1426444
How does it feel to live unworthy.

>> No.1426462

>>1426450
How does it feel knowing you're only going to be alive for as long as you can stay awake?

>> No.1426467

>>1426452
>>1426462
How does it feel to have your post end in 2?

>> No.1426471

>>1426450
He's right, we have no idea how consciousness works.

Fuck it could be Quantum Entanglement for all we know.

>> No.1426473

>>1426452
Not good, not that I seek death, but nothing would shame me more than to awaken in that peaceful field only to look across and see those I've killed in Valhalla, they died for there cause, but I was too weak and reserved to die for mine.

>> No.1426479

>>1426473
THAN LIVE FOR YOUR CAUSE!

LIIIIIIIIIVE!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDbYT2O93S8
This music is fantastic.

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1426491

>Science makes to only way to die to be killed by someone else.

>Suddenly, everyone goes to Valhalla.

>> No.1426492

>>1426450
If that's true then it's fine. There is no afterlife, so there is no pain, my point of view is always "current" so it's not a problem.

>> No.1426495

This thread needs to be archived.

>> No.1426496

>>1426473
No, it's your duty to survive as long as you can to continue the fight.

>> No.1426497

>>1426462
>How does it feel knowing you're only going to be alive for as long as you can stay awake?
Meh... brb gonna go take a nap.

Or rather, maybe not brb. Maybe goodbye, in the very permanent sense.

>> No.1426498

>>1424956

Stupid, only geniuses(People with an IQ of 140+) should be able to live forever, or this world is going to be crowded with idiots.

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The Allfather, the Hanged God, the Lord of Men, is the supreme judge of heroic things. He has personally reviewed this thread and determined that it is up to Valhalla's quality standards. All that have posted in this thread are permitted to enter the heroic realm of Asgard upon death. In the meantime, you shale all be given a cask of Odin's favorite mead.

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>My face when we are eternally revered as the "final generation", the mortals who destroyed mortality, but did not live to reap the fruits of their labor. Our children will forever look upon us with fond memories and immense respect.

>> No.1426504

>>1426498
Geniuses are notoriously unmanageable. There needs to be a balance.

Besides, if it becomes too much of a problem, you'll be able to ship out.

>> No.1426507

>>1426498
It will work out that way in time. Read some Darwin Awards; stupid people have a way of removing themselves from existence with remarkable regularity.

>> No.1426512

>>1426503

I think most of us will live fine, bro. Most of us here will be 34-70 in 2029.

>> No.1426514

>>1426503
Thereby achieving our own sort of immortality, the memory of our greatness long outlasting even our Methuselan children.

>> No.1426517

>>1426498
Cracked genome = geniuses everywhere.

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>>1426500

>> No.1426522

>>1426498
It's fine, existence wouldn't be existence without fodder for the guns.

>> No.1426525

Yeah because its not like we die for a reason is it?

Will result in WAY too many people, overpopulation, wars of remaining food stores

End of the world through nuclear war

>> No.1426527

>>1426503
Barring any great misfortune in the coming years, I should be about 40 when immortality is achieved.

40 is a civilized age to be, it's something I can certainly live with.

>> No.1426534

No one here deserves to live forever, no one on earth deserves to live forever.

>> No.1426539

>>1426527
Really, scientists are horrible at predicting how long it will take to achieve things. You're far more likely to be 80, or dead.

But on the other hand, we should be able to reverse the physical effects of aging around then. Regrowing muscle isn't a very complex task, physiologically.

>> No.1426545

>>1426512
>>1426514
>>1426527
I'm just saying that, should immortality technology progress significantly slower than current estimates, it's not like we picked a bad time to die.

>> No.1426546

>>1426512
I'll be 44 years of age, mortal years, my last birthday. My children's children's children's will come in search of me to learn about the time when things still died.

>> No.1426547

>>1426534
Yeah? Who are you to judge that?

>> No.1426549

>>1426534
"Deserve" is a subjective moral term.

No one is qualified to make such a judgement.

>> No.1426554

>>1426546
Fuck if I'm granting unaging life to cockroaches. Things are immortal enough already. There will always be things which die.

>> No.1426556

>>1426525
Or you know.

Forced habitation of off world and maybe even orbital colonies.

Advances in propulsion systems and perhaps entangled communications allowing our entire solar systems semi habitable areas to be colonised.

Forced extra solar explorations.

>> No.1426561

>>1426556

Not going to happen before the general population wants 500gb ipods and people keep talking to god

>> No.1426565

>>1426556
We're never getting faster-than-light communication. If we did, it's pretty much certain we'd also get time travel, because these are both prevented by exactly the same thing.

It's not necessary to colonization anyway. Humanity colonized America without needing to send runners back to Africa to say hi. There's nothing wrong with becoming fractured.

>> No.1426567

>>1426547

Show me someone who has done something to earn the right to live forever.

>> No.1426570

>>1426561
500gb ipods are probably about four years out, so.

>> No.1426580

>>1426545
>it's not like we picked a bad time to die.
This is why /sci/ is my favorite board. While normal people go about their mundane lives dwelling on what X bitch said about Y bitch, people on /sci/ are charging forward in the battle against death.

So fucking awesome.

>> No.1426581

>>1426567
You're looking at it backwards. Why shouldn't anyone have the right?

>> No.1426590

>>1426567
It is not a right.

It is the inevitable universal destiny of sentient life forms.

>> No.1426596

>>1426590
(For small values of "forever".)

>> No.1426602

>>1426581

Because to quote a song people = shit. Most of the world have no problem fucking someone over in order to gain a small thing. Most people are retards and do as little as possible or live of the government.

These are not the people we want living forever

>> No.1426605

So run the odds for me, /sci/. I'm 20, and live a healthy and largely risk-free lifestyle. Given science's horrible tendency to underestimate how long it will take to achieve something, what are the odds I'll actually live more than, say, 200 years?

>> No.1426613

>>1426602
>These are not the people we want living forever
Again, who are you to judge?

>> No.1426619

>>1426605
About the same as your odds of making it to 70. So long as you don't accidentally kill yourself, or end up getting murdered, it shouldn't be a problem.

>> No.1426627

>>1426613

Do you want theiving/drugo/lazy fucks living forever?

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>>1426619
Really? Because that would be a pretty drastic jump in life expectancy. Way beyond the trendline.

>> No.1426648

>>1426567
Einstein.

Dude showed us the fabric of the universe and allowed us so much knowledge.

Standing on the shoulders of giants.

>> No.1426652

>>1426627
Yes.

And once science has removed the health consequences of drug use and laziness, I want to join them.

You can die at 78 if you want. I'll be shooting up heroin at your funeral while still having the body of a 23 year old professional athlete.

>> No.1426653

>>1426627
I don't see why not.

>> No.1426711

May you all...live...forever....