Science Would you...

[Access Denied]

Like to live forever?

 

[Wij]

I want to see all the radical developments in ultra-future-porn.

 

[ST^]

The thought of one day not having any consciousness just terrifies me. So yes.

 

[Helme]

My instinctive answer is yes, but after thinking a bit about it I reckon an end would be nice since I'm fairly certain I'm never going to be a millionaire or something along those lines, so my quality of life is just going to continue declining forever due to the short-sightedness of people in charge. I'm going to go with a no. I'd settle for skipping age related diseases like alzheimers though.

 

[caLLous]

How does it work though? Do you just keep on getting more and more crap as you get older? The thought of spending more time needing help to use the toilet at the end of my life isn't exactly enticing tbh. :\

 

[old.Tohtori]

Depends really as said, if you get progressively worse, i don't see 100+ as funtime.

If you're relatively worse, aka 80 at 800, then hells yeah.

 

[Ceixah]

I was so mildly disappointed when i opened this thread - I was expecting a hot pic of some geeky woman or smth but no the science tag was accurate


and if I could keep a specific age and live forever then yes, otherwise no thanks

 

[Access Denied]

I agree with ST^ on this one. The thought terrifies me as well and I find it extremely difficult to imagine that there's something else after death.

 

[MYstIC G]

Depends, if I was going to be young and invulnerable then yes, otherwise probably not.

 

[Himse]

If I could stay my current age forever, sure.

 

[Access Denied]

The article is pretty clear that not only would age related diseases be eradicated but they would the able to revitalize cells. We become wrinkly and infirm because our cells gradually stop replicating, this process would cause them to continue replicating and therefore we would stay the same physical age as we were when we started the treatment.

 

[Access Denied]

Just for you Ceixah.

 

[Ceixah]

just for you ceixah.

yes, yes i would!

 

[rynnor]

The bloke quoted is a bit fruitbat though - we are a long way from controlling ageing - hell we cant even cure cancers yet and thats a key since the ageing body gradually spits out more of these.

Plus alzheimers - would you live forever with senility?

 

[Zenith.UK]

I wouldn't want to live forever, but I would like a much extended lifespan of maybe 300-400 years with ageing slowed down so I would be in good physical shape.

300 years ago we had common diseases without cure, long distance communications took days by horseback and lighting was tallow candles. If someone from 1711 was dropped in 2011, they'd talk of today's common technology as marvels of magic.

What would we say about everyday life and technology if we lived to see 2311 ?

 

[GimmlyThe3rd]

No. boring In a million years I imagine, will be happy doing my bit, being "someone" and doing "something. And having kids and dieing off .

 

[JBP|]

Brilliant idea, Live till you're 1,000 work till you're 990, fuck that shit

 

[Raven]

Yes but only if I had some sort of star trekesque ship with holodeck included. There would not be enough to do in an infinite life time to just stay on earth.

 

[old.user4556]

Also, living forever is one thing, but the death of the Sun and Earth and then the eventual heat death of the universe will fuck immortality in the ear.

 

[Shagrat]

I quite the idea from Peter Hamiltons books. You just backup yourself every now and then and when you get "too old" you clear out the memories you dont want then download yourself into a new body, spend a month in a rehab centre getting used to your new shell then off you go.

You could have a generation as a woman just to see what its like, although psychologically that would fuck you up bigtime i suspect.

 

[Madmaxx]

No thank you, Maybe if say something Horific happened and you could erase you own memory or something and alot of other questions like Age'ing and such then possibly if it was ok.

But say like having a family watching them grow old and die, no family after the first 100 years; its a nice idea but unless I had god-like powers for certain things then I would say no.

 

[TdC]

live forever? I'd say yes in an instant. proper health care would be handy though....natch.

 

[Huntingtons]

yes i would. but not if all could. bah

 

[dysfunction]

I quite the idea from Peter Hamiltons books. You just backup yourself every now and then and when you get "too old" you clear out the memories you dont want then download yourself into a new body, spend a month in a rehab centre getting used to your new shell then off you go.

You could have a generation as a woman just to see what its like, although psychologically that would fuck you up bigtime i suspect.

Yes indeed! I would love to live in that world he has created.

 

[Zede]

I quite the idea from Peter Hamiltons books. You just backup yourself every now and then and when you get "too old" you clear out the memories you dont want then download yourself into a new body, spend a month in a rehab centre getting used to your new shell then off you go.

You could have a generation as a woman just to see what its like, although psychologically that would fuck you up bigtime i suspect.

indeed, nigel & ozzie seemed quite relaxed @ 1000 years old

 

[Wazzerphuk]

Really surprised how many people have said yes so far. Can't think of anything worse than living forever.

 

[TdC]

well, from the perspective of living forever meaning other humans lives become but mere instants, reducing connecting with them to a pointless exercise thus making the effort of living an unbearable tedium, then yes.

on the other hand, I'd finally have enough time to learn to surf.

 

[megadave]

Is it proper forever or can you still get run over by a car?

Being alive in a few billion years wondering through space might be quite boring.

 

[Access Denied]

Hmm it seems that people favour the affirmative. Always wanted to go into Space. I'm not talking about the media grabbing jaunts that are being made to just outside the furthest reachs of our atmosphere, I'm talking about true space travel, interstellar and intergalactic. I see Star Trek and Stargate and think "How amazing would it be to actually do that, to go out there and explore strange new worlds. That I think is the mean reason for my wanting to be essentially immortal. To live long enough for that sort of thing to be commonplace.

Being alive in a few billion years wondering through space might be quite boring.

It own't be though. Think about it, there are billions of stars in our galaxy, there are hundreds of billions of galaxies. There would always be something new out there, something you would never have seen before.

 

[Tom]

The thought of one day not having any consciousness just terrifies me. So yes.

You have no consciousness when you sleep.