The Icelander: All the more reason to fund human space exploration. With longer lifespans it makes it even more effective. A ten year trip to Jupiter is no big deal if you live to be 400.

Any long term projects become much more manageable.

But can you imagine being at year 50 in your 400 year lifespan and not being taken seriously because "You're still young"

Strewn? Can you actually strew a disease?

meat0918: The Icelander: All the more reason to fund human space exploration. With longer lifespans it makes it even more effective. A ten year trip to Jupiter is no big deal if you live to be 400.

Any long term projects become much more manageable.

But can you imagine being at year 50 in your 400 year lifespan and not being taken seriously because "You're still young"

You'd still be banging some of that hot sub-90 fresh meat.

meat0918: But can you imagine being at year 50 in your 400 year lifespan and not being taken seriously because "You're still young"

C.f. the retarded elf syndrome.

Hell, I wouldn't mind living to be 500. Give them damn asari a run for their money soon after.

WARNING, spoiler follows:

It's people!

Am i the only one who still believes that we are all going to end up like the people in Wall-E?

Things will become easier, exercise will become unnecessary, and we will all become inhumanly fat.

We won't have to worry about religious folk taking advantage of this breakthrough right?
If so, there shouldn't be that many immortals to worry about overpopulation.

thrill of dying amidst a hunger and disease-strewn, overcrowded world

I'm pretty sure that's what we've got now.

Is this the thread where people bad mouth breeders and call for a massive die off of humanity?

Talkc: Am i the only one who still believes that we are all going to end up like the people in Wall-E?

Things will become easier, exercise will become unnecessary, and we will all become inhumanly fat.

going to end up?

look around you man.
We are there now.

at least I am.

//brb, I need a soda.

amishkarl: Is this the thread where people bad mouth breeders and call for a massive die off of humanity?

Indeed. Enjoy the show.

/not a breeder

RENEW!

Great, now I get to work forever. Thanks, scientists.

WARNING, spoiler follows:

They ended up in the future after the world has been nuked and is run by apes.

It'll never happen. Immortality I mean. Sure, we'll live longer, the genetically engineered ones. The rest of us will die like we should. "Aging" isn't really the problem I'm worried about, as Death always finds a way. Always.

Subby has the right idea, there are too damn many people on the planet as it is. You say you have starvation in Africa, a huge flood in China, and an earthquake somewhere else that has killed millions of people? I say that sounds like a good start. If we don't get a handle on population control and get rid of this archaic idea that everyone has a "right" to procreate, we're going to be seeing a critical mass of people on this planet in the next 50 years, even without advanced life-extending technology.

You want to help? You go off yourself. I'll live so I can appreciate your sacrifice.

Everyone wants eternal life, without thought for the usual implications.

With any luck, this will mean we'll all be gloriously young when when we die of heart attacks or liver failure at age 112.

Aging slowly ≠ indestructable

But it does mean you can have a lot more fun destroying your body along the way!

Cure for aging? Hmmm...



/I'd be running by now
//hot like Jessica 6

Since when is aging a disease that needs to be cured?

robnelle: RENEW!

Came to post this, but beaten to the punch by quite a bit.

theknuckler_33: Cure for aging? Hmmm...



/I'd be running by now
//hot like Jessica 6

I love Logan's Run. Awesome movie!!

I'd actually really like to live a few hundred years if 2 conditions were met.

1. I don't want to be frail and senile for the last couple hundred years of my life. I would only go for a cure for aging if it cured all the negatives that come with old age such as weak joints, senility, hair loss, etc.

2. If they found a way to stop the planet getting any more crowded than it already is.

If those 2 conditions were met, living a couple hundred years could be awesome. It'd give me a shot at visiting a great deal of the world, even on a low income and having so many different experiences. As it is now I probably have another 40, maybe 50 years where I can comfortably travel the world. And that isn't all that much time.

the secret to eternal life is mud and dandelions.

/obscure?

WOOO! 400 more years!

lisarenee3505

So much for "my body my choice"

meat0918: But can you imagine being at year 50 in your 400 year lifespan and not being taken seriously because "You're still young"

I was thinking more along the lines of hitting your 200th wedding anniversary and offing yourself as a reward.

dragonchild: Plot aside, my money's on "Mad Max Dugan Returns" giving the most accurate portrayal of our endgame.

FTFY

Just make a few philosopher's stones. Eternal youth for a few chosen, and a massive population drop for the rest.

//soylent green is people!

I can't wait to see Tomorrow, Tomorrow and Tomorrow.

/hopefully not obscure.

Assignment in Eternity - RAH

MorePeasPlease: WOOO! 400 more years!

[X] Detroit

Talkc: Am i the only one who still believes that we are all going to end up like the people in Wall-E?

Things will become easier, exercise will become unnecessary, and we will all become inhumanly fat.

I'm more worried about Idiocracy.

Make Room! Make Room!

WolfinPDX: Since when is aging a disease that needs to be cured?

Ever since Baby Boomers started aging.

If they do manage to cure aging, I'm pretty sure it'll be one of those things that's primarily for the very rich and powerful. Most of us are too poor for that kind of longevity technology to significantly increase the population.