I often think on what it would be like to live forever, to see the evolution of the human race and to witness the beauty and marvelous complexity of the universe as our knowledge of it grows. Few things excite me like scientific ideas, the technology that could be made from them, and their philosophical implications. I love human nature sometimes, when it produces such beautiful ideas, and it makes me shudder to think of all that there still is to discover, new ideas to be had, new friendships to be made, and adventures to experience.
How about you guys?
Whenever I think about this subject, I think of Tuck Everlasting and how miserable the Tucks were. So no, I wouldn't want to live forever.
If there was a way to watch the world forever without living in it, I would take that though.
Quote from: Espenoah on June 12, 2010, 01:01:25 AM
Whenever I think about this subject, I think of Tuck Everlasting and how miserable the Tucks were. So no, I wouldn't want to live forever.
If there was a way to watch the world forever without living in it, I would take that though.
Unlike the Tucks, though, suicide would be still possible. :)
One word
Reincarnation.
which I do believe in and seem to recall... twelve that I can access so far, none of them particulaly powerful or famous but all of them intresting.
Hell yeah! The world is too big to explore in one lifetime.
I would love to hear what sort of music is going to be played 100 years from now, and ride the 2110 equivalent of a Honda Fireblade!
I think forever is a bit much, but i do think 80 (+ / -) years is a bit short. At some point I would like to see whats next.
Yes, I would love to live forever and fester around the world and see what's new and what's going to happen and when everyone I know dies...I'll just go and make new friends and "family", that way I won't be alone and when all the other LGBT die...There has to be someone fighting for our freedom and rights? So living forever, that'll be a blast! :]
Also it would be nice to be able to say, " see, I told you that would happen if Ithe ice caps melted (or what ever)!"
I would prefer a time machine than immortality - life with dull bits skipped.
I don't think I would like being stuck in elementary school forever. At some point I would like to graduate and take on the responsibilities and joys of growing up. When I was a young child, life was kind of bad but it had it's happy moments. I wouldn't however want to go back and be stuck there forever; there was so much more to see and do and learn as I got older.
When I do go I want to go sideways, with smoke pouring of the back wheel of the bike yelling, "that was a awesome"!!
Living forever is easy...just don't die. I'm sure everyone only does it because everyone else does.
bit like flying- just throw yourself at the ground and miss.
dont much fancy having to chop people's heads off all the time. :icon_chuckel:
Quote from: justmeinoz on June 12, 2010, 10:06:19 AM
bit like flying- just throw yourself at the ground and miss.
you tend to get a lot of scrapes on your chin perfecting this
I don't. Well, which age? I guess that's a factor too.
I'm not sure I want to know what the future past when I should die would be like.
Quote from: Hauser on June 12, 2010, 11:10:58 AM
dont much fancy having to chop people's heads off all the time. :icon_chuckel:
someone else who thought of Highlander when reading the title!
I dunno if living forever is such a great thing but the time we have does seem a bit short considering how much there is to see in the world.
I'm torn whenever I think of this.
I want to live forever and watch the world change, to see how the geographic locations change, how societies change, etc. But I don't want to live forever in the body I have, so reincarnation had better be real xD
yeah i kept seeing that bit....here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYOE_b4aYD0# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYOE_b4aYD0#)
it pretty much sums up my feelings on the subject..
Hell no, i'm having a hard time with living now. I'll pass.
I need to live forever young.
If I take the blue pill then nothing momentous will occur, then in 50 years I will pass on and another 50 years after that no one will remember who I was. Take the red pill, however, and I will see the universe as it really is. The decision is clear, comfortable, safe and predictable life or harsh reality? What would you choose and why?
My answer is simple I would take the red pill hands down with no hesitation whatsoever. To go where no man has gone before. Genetic engineering, medical technology or mind transference will take care of body needs. Or as the Ancients did along time ago, move on to a higher plane of existence.
Live long and prosper
Sarah B
I wouldn't want to live forever, maybe just stop aging and live for 500 years or so :)
I'm with the Highlander crowd on this one... 8)
Also yer; there's the aging factor... No aging + forever-ner...-ness... I'll take it,
b.u.t. forever + aging-er-ner-...ness.. I'll pass. :icon_blahblah:
So why would I take it? Because sometimes you just do things because you can, and deal with the consequences later.
I just want
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Quote from: Pica Pica on June 14, 2010, 02:27:07 PM
I just want
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Well I am called Jenny so... I grew one!
But the dematerialisation circuit still doesn't work properly, I dunno - something about power level instability caused by the time rift that our house sits over... and the Microsoft operating system for the chamelon circuit keeps causing BSOD general protection faults!
Ergo I'm currently stuck here ;)
simple, just reverse the polarity of the neutron flow and hit it a few times.
Quote from: Pica Pica on June 14, 2010, 02:55:30 PM
simple, just reverse the polarity of the neutron flow and hit it a few times.
Done that. Now it's just saying operating system not found please reinstall! Oh and there is pink smoke coming from the timer rotor - is that normal? ;D
That's problem with fathers you see - they are never around when you need advice! :laugh:
Build a flux capacitor and time travel in style instead!
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Id love to have a time machine. Being able to see all those major events in history would make up for how short life is. Id love to visit ancient Egypt and see other civilisations in their prime. Living forever has the disadvantage of having infinate amounts of time where you would be bored. I think about 200 would be a good age to have, without physical aging of course.
I'm sure forever would end up being a few days and nights too long.
Hell yeah I'm gonna try and live forever ^_^ Of course I would probably fail because I refuse to let life get in the way of me living thus explode or fall off a skyscraper myself or something dumb.
I hear pepole say "forever would be boring." If you were born in 1000ad maybe you'd have a point but new technologies and things keep coming up all the time, look what we got in the past 40 years Bungee jumping, Skydiving, Epic roller-coasters, Helicopters.
They are all very cool things that you can do even cooler things with. In another 100-200 years we will have even more epic stuff, Transporter pads, Space ships, alien friends, time travel It will be an even bigger adventure. I don't think that even with infinity I could get bored of it.
Of course yeah there is a degree of quality of life I wouldn't want to live forever if I was completely decrepit and so senile I couldn't take care of myself.
i wouldnt want to live forever.....without other immortals. the idea of watching everyone and everything you know and love die....over and over and over and over and over again with no one who understood...would go a long way to screwing one's self up in the head
I do, with eternal youth of course.
Or heck, just let me live 900 years and age slowly.
lol at some of the posts here, anyway, believe it or not there are some important and powerful people working on guiding the society into a future where things like that might be possible
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/13/business/13sing.html (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/13/business/13sing.html)
It's just one of some articles around about this topic. And. TBH if I had thr chance of living for more time, maybe not forever but for 600 years as a young healthy and beautiful woman (25ish I guess lol) I'd definitely go for it without a doubt :D
And why do I have the feling that nanotechnology will improve the transition procedures in the future?
But everyone does live forever... Just luckily not on this stupid planet
What makes you think the next planet is going to be even better, it could just as well be Planet Falwell, or Planet Pat Robertson.
Yes. I'm afraid to die without my girlfriend. I wanna spend FOREVER with her.
Luckily, having no real sentimental attachment to absolutely anything or anyone, I'll gladly live for eternity and watch everything else melt away. I want to live long enough to see if life on Titan actually takes off, anyway.
And to the OP, if you had no chance of dying, you'd have nothing to stop you from drastically rearranging your body to suit your needs and desire.
Live forever? No thanks lol. I dont wanna see the future. The rate things are going we'll all live inside a computer. We will have no need for a body. We'll be like a head in a jar communicating through thoughts lol
One thing thats scares me is if there is an afterlife then we live for forever. If there is no after life there is nothing forever
Quote from: MRH on June 26, 2010, 04:10:04 PM
Live forever? No thanks lol. I dont wanna see the future. The rate things are going we'll all live inside a computer. We will have no need for a body. We'll be like a head in a jar communicating through thoughts lol
One thing thats scares me is if there is an afterlife then we live for forever. If there is no after life there is nothing forever
I have a good feeling that the Technological Singularity, the event to which you're referring, is the next step in human evolution.
Also, there is no afterlife. But your atoms will go on in the universe for as long as time and space exist. That's something forever, not nothing.
Quote from: tekla on June 18, 2010, 08:07:04 PM
What makes you think the next planet is going to be even better, it could just as well be Planet Falwell, or Planet Pat Robertson.
Planet Falwell? Pat Robertson? LOL... As if Hitler and all the other a-holes through out history were not bad enough