Quest for immortality
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OK whatever.
Of course the best possible outcome is:
The guy actually figures it out/accomplishes it. As he's leaving his office, euphoric in the knowledge that he doesn't have to worry about aging/dying, a piano falls on him, as a result, a distracted truck driver plows into the piano, and, leaking fuel, explodes...
Also, he was on the way to patent office, with the only copy of the secret formula in his breast pocket.
The guy actually figures it out/accomplishes it. As he's leaving his office, euphoric in the knowledge that he doesn't have to worry about aging/dying, a piano falls on him, as a result, a distracted truck driver plows into the piano, and, leaking fuel, explodes...
Also, he was on the way to patent office, with the only copy of the secret formula in his breast pocket.
There actually is real scientific research being done on age reversal at Harvard. It's called CRISPR which is genetic modifications to stop and then reverse the aging process. It's being done successfully on lab rats right now and will be likely be available for humans in about 5 years. You can google or youtube David Sinclair and George Church who are the lead scientists on the project.
Why would anyone want immortality? Sounds terrible. You’d have to keep working to support yourself. Overpopulation would become a huge issue. Family gatherings would be crowded and awful as people began seeing 4 and 5 and 6 generations of family.
Hard pass! My life will come to a close enough. And my carcass be sent into a CRISPR as it’s cremated.
Hard pass! My life will come to a close enough. And my carcass be sent into a CRISPR as it’s cremated.
it's a cute headline but there's no such thing as immortality unless you believe you're a character in an Anne Rice novel. OP is burying the lead though...
Some of Johnson's methods include taking 111 pills every day, going to bed at 8:30PM and having a 'tiny jet pack attached to his penis to monitor his nighttime erections'
Some of Johnson's methods include taking 111 pills every day, going to bed at 8:30PM and having a 'tiny jet pack attached to his penis to monitor his nighttime erections'
The only benefit I can see to this would be to continue watching sports and listening to music.
There are some Mondays I don't even want to make it through the day.
I just want to see a three tittied woman like in Total Recall then the Lord can take me.
Immortality is impossible unless you find a cure for heart disease, cancer, etc..
George has done too many drugs over the years. I happen to know Bryan over some time. He’s a better person than the media is making him seem, but he still has gone off the rocker with this anti aging thing
Those same researchers from Harvard sent me an email and said “guaranteed 6” of penis growth in 6 weeks” just take this breakthrough supplement ! Side story, they wouldn’t refund my $39.99 
They know technically how to slow aging, where someone could live 150 years. Wild to think about how different things would be if you're looking like a 35 yr old at 70...how it would change everything about how we approach life from work, families, etc.
More practical to think about in general is there are people today who will be living in the yr 2100 and how different things will be, think 100 yrs ago how different things were...just ahead of learning to fly, discovering penicillin, etc...yet 100 yrs in the grand scheme of existence is nothing
More practical to think about in general is there are people today who will be living in the yr 2100 and how different things will be, think 100 yrs ago how different things were...just ahead of learning to fly, discovering penicillin, etc...yet 100 yrs in the grand scheme of existence is nothing
I have one of those weiner jet packs I use at night. It looks like a flashlight.
A friend and I just had a very long conversation about how lucky we are to have lived in this era. We're just in our mid-40s, and yet humanity's maybe done more amazing things just in our lifetimes than in all the rest of human history combined. Then we talked about gravitons.
What a ride. I never want to get off because I want to learn learn learn learn learn -- there's just so much to be excited about, I don't know where to even start. XD
In Greek myth, Tithonus was granted eternal life but not eternal youth. So, he kept getting smaller and smaller until he was the size of a cicada. And his little voice -- begging to die -- sounded like a cicada.
Not dying is a horror story plot.
There's a novel, The History of the World in 11 1/2 Chapters. The last chapter is the afterlife. We get everything we want. Sex. Sport. Food. Drugs. Art. Whatever. Then, once we've sated our desires, we just quit being. Apparently, the last people to leave the party, so to speak, are academics who can never get enough of arguing their pet theories. (I bet sports fans arguing who was the GOAT give the academics a run for longevity.)
Not dying is a horror story plot.
There's a novel, The History of the World in 11 1/2 Chapters. The last chapter is the afterlife. We get everything we want. Sex. Sport. Food. Drugs. Art. Whatever. Then, once we've sated our desires, we just quit being. Apparently, the last people to leave the party, so to speak, are academics who can never get enough of arguing their pet theories. (I bet sports fans arguing who was the GOAT give the academics a run for longevity.)
I know a guy who bought three of those.Those same researchers from Harvard sent me an email and said “guaranteed 6” of penis growth in 6 weeks” just take this breakthrough supplement ! Side story, they wouldn’t refund my $39.99
If beer isn't the answer to death, then i've wasted a lot of time on beer, i guess.
The question for me is, what's the quality of life like if you're 120. Sure, your organs might have been modified to last longer, along with joint replacements, monitoring devices, etc.. But what's your brain like? Until they can get that figured out, to where you can actually have solid cognitive function at 130 years old, I'm not interested.
Wouldn't that mean you'd have been toting around an 18-incher? Dang, man, leave some for the rest of us!Those same researchers from Harvard sent me an email and said “guaranteed 6” of penis growth in 6 weeks” just take this breakthrough supplement ! Side story, they wouldn’t refund my $39.99
They've been making paralyzed mice walk for like 20 years, but have yet to cure paralysis.
Apparently he has never heard about telemeres.
I was rambling about how even though the planet's gravity can scatter the caltrops otherwise known as d4s all over a living room floor faster than I can yell 9.8 mss, it still isn't even anywhere even remotely close to being strong enough to budge electromagnetism enough to yank a magnet off of a refrigerator, and then that got us all rambling about the quest for gravitons. Of all of the cool stuff that we've discovered in the instant that you and I have been here, a unified field theory would be up there if we can find gravitons down there.
I don’t know why there is still an interest in gravitons after Einstein’s general theory of relativity. It shows that gravity is not a force at all. Rather, it’s the effect of mass interacting with spacetime.
