Immortality
Immortality
This is quite old but in case you haven't read it then please read this and then come back to discuss!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/scie ... ntist.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6959575/ns/ ... yC3f1zj52B
It seems incredible far-fetched and even stupid to me that we humans would ever be immortal but at the same time this man as predicted so much to come in our technology and he's been right every time.
The more I learned about this man the more I actually started to think that he could actually be right about this...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/scie ... ntist.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6959575/ns/ ... yC3f1zj52B
It seems incredible far-fetched and even stupid to me that we humans would ever be immortal but at the same time this man as predicted so much to come in our technology and he's been right every time.
The more I learned about this man the more I actually started to think that he could actually be right about this...
Re: Immortality
It would be cool, but impractical. I doubt we will be able to cope with the repercussions of immortality just yet seeing as we can't handle half of the world population as is. And that is with a pretty low life expectancy. I think we should focus on more important things as of now.
There is also a very good quote by Susan Ertz on the subject of immortality.
There is also a very good quote by Susan Ertz on the subject of immortality.
Susan Ertz wrote:Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Re: Immortality
If by other things you mean the population issue and water/food issues then I honestly think the opposite, sort off.Temor wrote:I think we should focus on more important things as of now.
I've always thought that maybe if we spent more research on stem cells, learning more about the universe (space) and things like this that we could go much further. I mean, we can already "grow" hearts from *stem cells so what if we put more time and effort into that? This may sound weird but we could then "grow" meat products (food).
And what if we put more effort into the whole space thing; you know, looking for habitable planets, space travel and all that.
*sigh* Maybe it's just me, I just want all those cool things to happen. Maybe I should freeze myself for a 1000 years...when you can
*http://singularityhub.com/2009/06/23/st ... s-and-vid/
Re: Immortality
The problem today is not the lack of food, but more the lack or efficient logistics. We know how to feed tens of billions of people. We just don't know how to get the food to them. What we need to do is educate people on how to feed themselves.
Or we could just forget about everyone else and focus on the industrialized countries. That's another effective, although immoral, solution.
Or we could just forget about everyone else and focus on the industrialized countries. That's another effective, although immoral, solution.
Re: Immortality
That's true but it's also part of a the problem, I read somewhere that if we did manage to get food out to the countries in need that we would burn out our resources quite fast. Finding an efficient means of transport would also be a good thing to invest into, I know they already are but still. I don't wanna drown in the next 20 years :/
Re: Immortality
Growing crops in Europe and export them to Africa is counterproductive. What we need to do instead is give the poor people of Africa the tools and knowledge to grow the crops themselves. This way they can use the giant wastelands as farms and defeat hunger themselves. This would not suck up any of " our " resources, seeing as it comes from a completely new source that was not there before.EcazS wrote:That's true but it's also part of a the problem, I read somewhere that if we did manage to get food out to the countries in need that we would burn out our resources quite fast. Finding an efficient means of transport would also be a good thing to invest into, I know they already are but still. I don't wanna drown in the next 20 years :/
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But they need water. The water over there is very, very bad.
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They have a lot of water underground. They need the technology to retrieve it. Once that's done, their societies can bloom.EcazS wrote:But they need water. The water over there is very, very bad.
Re: Immortality
It would get quite boring floating around in space for millions of years until you start orbiting a star or something.jacek wrote:I cant imagine anything worse than being literally immortal.
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Nah, ever since I was able to think "logically" I've always wanted to know what was going to happen with humanity. I mean, we're killing out planet. I wanna know how we solve things
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That's one way to solve itjacek wrote:We won't, we'll kill ourselves.EcazS wrote:I wanna know how we solve things