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We will cure and reverse aging, guaranteed. It might take 20, 50 or 100 years but it will happen eventually. The question is: should we? What are some of the pros and cons of the whole thing?

>> No.8509291

>>8509280
>We will cure and reverse aging
No one actually dies of old age. We die of the diseases that are associated with old age.

>> No.8509295

>>8509280
>We will cure and reverse aging
what did he mean by this

>> No.8509296

>>8509280
Overpopulation seems most obvious, disease could spread as a result of that... Overconsumption too. Just bad things man, really not worth it.

Personally, I'm enthusiastically waiting to see how this whole "life" thing ends, in 75 or so years.

I'll probably be disappointed.

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>>8509295
That at some point in the future there will be therapies that will make everyone physically young even though they might already be 30-100 years old. Then they will be given therapies to maintain their youth.

>>8509296
>I'm enthusiastically waiting to see how this whole "life" thing ends

Me too. But what I'm not enthusiastic about is the physical and mental degradation that is already under way (I'm 25). I don't want to end up like pic related. But then again if I reverse my aging at some point, I will have to live longer or an hero.

>> No.8509440

>>8509280
It's camp as hell, but read Silverberg's "Across a Billion Years," then ask yourself if you want to wind up the way The High Ones did.

>> No.8509473

>>8509296
We will have colonies in mars as soon as 2030 or even earlier (which is most likely). Maybe a multi planetary civilization is our future. Lets assume that we can go to other solar systems as well in a few decades and that the milk way has roughly one hundred billion planets (NASA, 2012). If each planet supports an average of ten billion people, overpopulation would be a reality only if it reached 10 on the 19th (ten quintillion). And when that happens, we could (hopefully) go to other galaxies.

It's just speculation, but it is very likely to happen.

Source: https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_2233.html (Now it is probably more btw)