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Posted 22 August 2002 - 08:02 AM
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Posted 01 September 2002 - 08:54 AM
It's great to hear that you have a cryonics membership... hopefully you won't need to use it. I know the current technological advancements don't appear to be going fast enough, however, we may be pleasantly surprised in the near future as such advancements in AI may be our "blessing". I'm referring to the exponential increase in computing speed and storage capacity. I'd be interested to know if you've stumbled across the concept of The Singularity yet? Thanks..The only disappointing aspect to this program is that I've been born too early-- that technology and civilization won't be advanced enough to permit my life-system hardening and redundancy before I run out of time. Hopefully, my cryonics membership will be of value in this case
Posted 22 October 2002 - 06:53 PM
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Posted 25 October 2002 - 06:34 PM
DeltaVee:
I would only want to live forever (...)
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Posted 21 January 2003 - 11:59 PM
Bruce Says:
To talk about the future strength of the gene pool is great. I support the future well being of your children and the children of all other humans.
However, that does not preclude us from wanting the best for ourselves as well. Our grandfathers and grandmothers may have resigned themselves to die, but we don't have to also.
The point i'd like to make is that if one believes there is nothing after death, then death should be avoided at all cost.
.BJKlein says: If one believes that oblivion is the result of the loss of information and connections within the brain, then one should get cryonics policy and avoid flying
BJKlein: If one believes that religion is a myth and there is no God to take care of us after death, one should embrace heaven on earth and strive for immortality.
Posted 22 January 2003 - 12:15 AM
Heh.. Atheist have survived emotionally, but the had to die physically because there was no other option. Ben Franklin lamented: I wish it were possible... to invent a method of embalming drowned persons, in such a manner that they might be recalled to life at any periodObviously atheists have emotionally survived in times when physical immortality seemed as impossible as a supernatural afterlife.
Posted 08 February 2003 - 05:08 PM
Posted 09 February 2003 - 05:25 AM
So the topic is about heat death.Basically, I'd suggest that there are no physical laws that say humans can't live for billions of years.
Posted 13 February 2003 - 10:39 PM
Posted 13 February 2003 - 10:45 PM
This is true, however, It's probably not a very good justification for death. If the whole world decided to jump off a cliff, I wouldn't follow.. A good justification for death would be a plausible explanation for an afterlife. No one has come up with this yet. Therefore, I think it's a rather big deal. lolWe can live forever...If we can, I'd love to. If not, big deal? Nothing all the world hasn't experienced before.
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Posted 18 December 2007 - 08:09 PM
We all know we will die, but some choose to stop that from happening.
Well, I have convinced myself that biological immortality is possible. Right now we are at that time in history when we will be either the last to die of old age or the first to live in youthful, perpetual health.
It will be done through technology. It is just a matter of time before the 'biological immortality pill' will be perfected. Your task then, is to just be there when it happens!!!
Lots of stuff you can do to add the few years to your life neccesary to make it.
As I said in my previous post here, physical immortality is a tougher nut to crack, since it's tough to constanly dodge all the speeding trains and bullets out there. Technology and awareness will eventually solve that problem too.
gene
Posted 05 January 2008 - 05:21 PM
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Posted 06 January 2008 - 03:38 PM
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Posted 18 January 2008 - 12:30 PM
Firstly, humanity needs comparable tolerances of radiation (i.e light and heat), oxygen, gravity, nutrition and water to even exist.
These are considered physical prerequisites for life (i.e. laws). If, for example, our sun swelled to a red giant, the heat emitted from it would vaporize the earths rocks, never mind the seas and our bodies!!
Even if some "immortals" managed to flee the dying earth, the spaceships would have to be pretty damn robust to withstand super-velosity meteor impact and the supercool temperatures of intersteller space (and what about the food rations, since the nearest star Proxima Centauri is 4.3 light-years away?). Also gravity plays an important role in bone strength and muscle mass. Take away gravity (as on a spaceship), and you'll have a recipe for disaster.
Personally, I believe humans will evolve into something more "plant-like". I don't mean plant-like as in cabbages -heaven knows there's enough of them already...
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Posted 19 November 2015 - 09:34 AM
For the best we know the universe in which we exist is not endless in time, so we cannot live forever.
What? The current most accepted model of the Universe is endless in time.
https://en.wikipedia...ambda-CDM_model
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