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Salomon said:
also, you gotta realize, the longer you have been alive, the quicker time passes in your perception.

so after you lived for 300 years, days would seem like 30 minutes to you, just zipping by in the void of time.


a centurty would be nothin but a thang

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Gilgamesh18 said:
Man I really hope Im around for when all this really gets going.

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Gilgamesh18 said:
Man I really hope Im around for when all this really gets going.

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You reincarnate infinitely into every possible life.  No human experience will escape you, if such an organism can be built off a human, this will happen tro you, over and over.

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Fuck that. We're supposed to die.

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We're SUPPOSED to have the option to die, which we'll still have. Prohibiting other people that want to keep living from doing so just because YOU have some personal reservations about immortality is ridiculous. This argument always cracks me up because taken to its logical extreme it means that we shouldn't be pursuing ANY medical advances that prolong life or improve its quality. Naturally in a world without any medical advances most of us would die at the ripe old age of 30 or 40. Immortality is simply the next logical step in prolonging life.

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Dark_Star said:
Fuck that. We're supposed to die. Death is as much a part of life as life itself. Whatever lies over that horizon, I welcome it when the time is right.

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How about RIGHT NOW?

Ah, I didnt think so. I can tell you that many people who are dying RIGHT NOW are convinced its not the right time and the families gatered around their bed fully agree.

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Wiccan_Seeker said:
Im thinking about the transition and I think they will do it like this:

They put you in a coma, or just your brain in a jar, and infuse it with an IV of nutrients, red blood cells and nanobots.

The nanobots will then gradually adhere to tissues, assess their function, copy the function and turn the organic tissue into waste to be carried off by the nanoblood.  This way gradually your entire CNS is replaced by nanobots the brain is normally replenished by nutrients to renew the tissues.  That way the nanobrain is the inheritor of your code like your renewed tissues are, and the You that is You carries over along with them, whether the "soul" is software, hardware or both.

So basically when you die they put you on life support, or you go to the hospital and put in a drug coma, and in either case you wake up again as a you that is based on silicon, not carbon. This way you can copy an organism WITHOUT handling the data centrally, you just indiscriminately find & replace with a zillion simple bots until the transition is complete, then the nanobot orgnism can produce a data plug and send the code ofd its own structure for storage.

Guys, I'm thinking this technonogy will be FREE, something you can opt for like being an organ donor.  Think about it: They supply a basic hospital stay and a few buckets of cheap mass produced nanobots, they in return get a transcript of the code of not just your DNA but also youl life experiences, to use into some sort of centralized super database.

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  We can't even stop ourselves from destroying the rainforest which productes atleast 15% of our oxygen. IMHO humans will fuck things up and die off before we reach this level. Stephen Hawking says we have about a 50% chance of survival from global warming.
With great technology comes great responsibility. Law enforcement would get a hardon reading about the possibilities of nano bots

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i like cow poo said:

  We can't even stop ourselves from destroying the rainforest which productes atleast 15% of our oxygen. IMHO humans will fuck things up and die off before we reach this level. Stephen Hawking says we have about a 50% chance of survival from global warming.
With great technology comes great responsibility. Law enforcement would get a hardon reading about the possibilities of nano bots

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vladtepes said:
dying people might be desperate enough to kill oligarchs to have a piece of the pie that will surly be reserved for the elite.

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i like cow poo said:
Exactly dude. Hate to say it but humans can be very fucked up creatures. Immortality ain't going to be a walk in the park me thinks
Hate to shit on everyone parade but popular science said flying cars would be in everyones garage by 2000. I DONT SEE ANY FUCKING FLYING CARS IN MASS PRODUCTION

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A lot of the fucked up shit we do comes from fear of death-- either from a misguided theory about the afterlife or from the nagging fear that death will cut our plans short.

I like to think that postponing death indefinitely will result in a drastic change of behavior on the part of the ruling oligarchs.

Who knows though, they might actually just be a bunch of psychopaths.

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i like cow poo said:
Hate to shit on everyone parade but popular science said flying cars would be in everyones garage by 2000. I DONT SEE ANY FUCKING FLYING CARS IN MASS PRODUCTION

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I for one am pretty disappointed about that. I wanted a lightsaber by now too dammit!

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Krackatus said:
Am I the only one who thinks that this is a monumental waste of time and energy? I don't think people realise the reason WHY are lives are finite. Because its not in our interest for them to be infinite, or even radically prolonged. You get jaded. Bored. There is only so much to do on planet Earth.
Eventually you would have seen and experienced everything this planet has to offer. Even if you were able to keep a 20 year old body the whole time, my guess is less than 100 years down the line your going to find life EXTREMLEY monotonous, predictable and boring. Better off trying to enhance the quality of our lives rather than the quantiy. Just imo.

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