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ITT your face when you realized that you were born one generation early of the discovery of how to manipulate telomeres and thus achieve immortality

>> No.1778977

Lol, OP is 62.

>> No.1778974

Are you 50 years old?

>> No.1778981

You are a baby boomer.

I was born in the 80's.

You were born early, I was born right on time.
Happyfacewhen.jpg

>> No.1778982

Meh, I'm planning on having my brain uploaded as soon as the singularity happens. Like hell I'm getting stuck in this meatbag for eternity.

>> No.1778984

OP still thinks telomere lengthening is the answer to aging

>laughingwhores.whores

>> No.1778989

>>1778982

This brings up and interesting point.

Would you guys rather have an immortal, corporeal form, or have your brain/consciousness/essence/whatever uploaded somewhere?

>> No.1778990
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1778990

Yeah, let dem descendants suffer on their overcrowded planet, not being able to leave it, to die anymore and, even worse, not evolving any further.
I'm happy I don't have to experience that misery.

>> No.1778991

What will be the point of living in a post-singularity age?

Digital experiences / goods will be infinitely reproduced and it seems like utilitarianism will be the main school of thought.

Will people still believe they have a soul even when they're nothing more than a cloud of electrons?

>> No.1778996

>>1778984
>Implying telomeres definitely not the answer to aging.
>Implying increased telomerase activity is not a common factor in immortal cancer cell lines and many culturable non cancerous mammalian cell lines like NIH3T3, etc.
Not saying it is the answer, just saying it's not DEFINITELY NOT the answer. It's probably a significant part of the answer.

>> No.1779003

I was born in 1990; chances are good I'll live long enough to get the first longevity drugs, and once that happens, it's only a matter of waiting for practical uploading.

>> No.1779005

This thread is now, "Your face when you realize that when such manipulation exists it will be saved for the enormously rich who funded it." Nobody likes overpopulation

>> No.1779008

>>1779005
Overpopulation is societal pressure to expand. Except, this time it's not expanding into the nearest village and taking their cows, it's expanding to the nearest colonizable celestial body. This is desirable to me.

>> No.1779009

>>1779005
open source biofactories, reverse engineering, and pirating.
put the recipe on the net...
/fuck yeah, the new drug wars

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>>1779005

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>>1779035

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>>1779010

>> No.1779038

>mfw when babyboomers will not reach immortality
I don't know who I will miss more the communist fearing bible thumpers or the dirty old hippies riding harleys
Goodbye you obnoxious motherfuckers, see you in the afterlife (lol not really)

>> No.1779039

>>1779035
Because implementing mandatory vasectomies on people treated with immortality is so incredibly hard.

>> No.1779055

There would be riots and resistance if people knew about it but our information is so controlled it would be simple matter to make it unknown.

>> No.1779058

>>1778982

You realise that you will never have physical sex ever again.

>> No.1779065

>>1779058
>>implying physical sex is better than VR porn
>>1779055
wikileaks will handle it...

>> No.1779069

>>1779058
>implying he ever did

>> No.1779074

>>1779003

Not really, we're still decades away from a practical life extension drug.

And though we probably have the hardware to actually store the memory in our brains, the software to actually piece it into a coherent pattern is still probably 50 years away.

>> No.1779081

>>1779074
I can wait a few decades...

>> No.1779096

have you heard of the research they are doing into the prmature aging diseases. They reckon they have a compund now that gives these kids a few more years. Not immortality but might keep me alive long enough until...

>> No.1779102

You realize of course that if aging biological aging is stopped, the government will have to start just executing anyone when they turn 65.

>> No.1779109

>>1779102

Or we can start using time as currency.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1637688/

>> No.1779110

the first telomere-extending compound was discovered about a week ago: http://www.liebertonline.com/doi/full/10.1089/rej.2010.1085

Sierra Sciences, Geron Corporation, and the Spanish National Cancer Research Center (CNIO), have announced the first compound ever discovered that activates the enzyme telomerase in the human body; this compound is a natural product derived nutraceutical known as TA-65

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>>1779110
OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD

>> No.1779149

>>1779110
Citation needed