/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.2635934]

springtime of life is too short.
I'm very sad.
are you sad?

[Anonymous No.2635944]

yea, i'm pretty sure springtime needs to be more like 1/4 of the lifespan, and since i'm gonna live to at least 500, then i've got another 100 years or so left of springtime

[Anonymous No.2635951]

>implying I'm not a beardling.

[Inurdaes !V1sPhobos. No.2635955]

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

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

[Anonymous No.2635987]

Even if we never attain longevity or immortality, it's useless to cry over the limited time we have to live.

By obsessing over mortality, you waste your precious time and inhibit your own happiness. This way you inhibit your own life, as a happy person can attain heights of effort unavailable to a melancholy one.

[Anonymous No.2636051]

springtime seems to go well into your 40s, just look at all those happy celebrities in their 40s

[ΑΒΛΑΝΑΘΑΝΑΛΒΑ !VELES0KOXY No.2636054]

>>2635955

hey, I got this same picture when I posted something instead of the picture I wanted.

What does it mean?

[Anonymous No.2636058]

>>2635987
But by devoting your limited mortal life to achieving immortality you increase the chances of you doing so and achieving greater levels of happiness later. An eternity of supreme happiness is infinitely greater than a few decades of ok happiness, so in theory we should all act like amoral nihilist sociopaths desperately trying to achieve immortality and gain power. But, meh.

[Anonymous No.2636072]

>>2636058
I didn't say you shouldn't reach for immortality. I just said that feeling depressed over being mortal is counterproductive. Also toward that very goal.

[Anonymous No.2636088]

>>2636072
Oh ok, but you would still be better off being totally stoic and having olympian willpower instead of wasting your time on petty things like happiness.

[Anonymous No.2636103]

>>2636058
thats actually a fairly concise and mostly accurate description of my life. sounds weird to hear it put like that, but yeah, meh

[Anonymous No.2636106]

>>2636088
Your idea would be fine if people were robots but they aren't so it isn't.

Psychological factors and issues need to be addressed as long as people are people.

[Inurdaes !V1sPhobos. No.2636199]

>>2636054
It means you are going to live to see an entire millennium, and most probably many more.

[Anonymous No.2636248]

Why do people, speaking of clinical immortality, always refer to 1000 years as a sort of milestone? I don't see the significance. If I can live for 1000 years, I would prefer even more to live for one million years.

[Inurdaes !V1sPhobos. No.2636258]

>>2636248
It is a very conservative estimate. And I made the liveto3000's.jpg image so a lot of other people sort of adopted it.

(I made it 3000AD because by then Mars should be fully terraformed)

[Anonymous No.2636305]

>>2636248
probably because you are statistically very likely to die from an accident or something within a 1000 years time or so.

[Anonymous No.2636324]

>>2636106
Then that is just a factor also, just as there is a point where lack of happiness leads to neuroses, the inability to concentrate and physical shock, there is a point where wasting more resources on happiness is detrimental to the goal of achieving immortality.

[Anonymous No.2636468]

>>2636324
You are being an ornery little bugger, aren't you?
You seem to take every suggestion to extremes.
Do you, for example, depilate your whole body if someone says you should get a haircut?

I'm a little amused by you, but really now.