Living For 1000 Years
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poliphiloChap on TV was saying he knows how to reverse the ageing process. He reckons we'll have it cracked by the middle of the century. After that we'll have the option (not everyone will take it) of living for a thousand years.
Are we ready for this?
Are we ready for this?
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Date: 2006-03-08 09:24 am (UTC)I guess Wyndham foresees a disaster. I don't think immortality need be that, but it would certainly throw our current social arrangements into confusion.
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Date: 2006-03-08 04:55 am (UTC)I don't think I believe him though. Is his last name Frankenstein? ;-)
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Date: 2006-03-08 06:28 pm (UTC)Oh, sure, we KNOW we will--but it doesn't really seem real until something threatens our mortality.
I could be just as happy for a thousand years as I am now--and I could learn and do a lot of cool things. It's just doing the dishes and vaccuuming the rugs and having coffee with a friend....one day at a time--forever.
I would want to be regressed physically to about 10, though, because I want to PLAY.
heh heh heh.
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Date: 2006-03-09 01:59 am (UTC)I want to be a pioneer.
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Date: 2006-03-08 08:14 pm (UTC)all the organic stuff except maybe the brain could be cloned and replaced. and the brain, hmm. maybe they can replace it a bit at a time. or just transfer all the information to a new one as if they were burning CD`s...
and as for all the people- well, probably we`ll need to go off and colonize space. meaning earth will be full of 1000 year olds and the space fringes will be full of young uns off sewing their wild oats. sounds ok to me...
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Date: 2006-03-09 02:04 am (UTC)Yeah, I think serious space exploration would be the logical next step. With astronauts who can live 1000 years the prime objection to going to the stars (that it would take so long) is removed.
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Date: 2006-03-10 09:11 pm (UTC)I'll go to the stars!