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Bob DeWoody Send message Joined: 9 May 10 Posts: 3387 Credit: 4,182,900 RAC: 10 |
Or, at least, for a very long time, say 1,000 years? Recent programming on the National Geographic channel and the Science channel indicate that progress is being made to identify the genetic factors that cause aging and death. If such breakthroughs are actually made I think most likely the beneficiaries will be the rich and famous leaving most of the rest of us to live only slightly longer than previous generations. Even though I have no immediate desire to end my stay here on earth I really doubt that I would enjoy life past 100 or so. Even with unlimited resources and a nice friendly planet to travel around on I get the feeling that it would all end up getting very old and stale after a while. So, how long do you want to live? Bob DeWoody My motto: Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow as it may not be required. This no longer applies in light of current events. |
janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 |
Even though I have no immediate desire to end my stay here on earth I really doubt that I would enjoy life past 100 or so. Even with unlimited resources and a nice friendly planet to travel around on I get the feeling that it would all end up getting very old and stale after a while. I agree totally. Doing the same thing over and over again seems very boring. On other hand you would like to know more about future science. But I could live with that. |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30653 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
Even though I have no immediate desire to end my stay here on earth I really doubt that I would enjoy life past 100 or so. Even with unlimited resources and a nice friendly planet to travel around on I get the feeling that it would all end up getting very old and stale after a while. Imagine going to work for 900 years. No thank you. |
janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 |
Even though I have no immediate desire to end my stay here on earth I really doubt that I would enjoy life past 100 or so. Even with unlimited resources and a nice friendly planet to travel around on I get the feeling that it would all end up getting very old and stale after a while. LOL. |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24879 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
Even though I have no immediate desire to end my stay here on earth I really doubt that I would enjoy life past 100 or so. Even with unlimited resources and a nice friendly planet to travel around on I get the feeling that it would all end up getting very old and stale after a while. Well, one would have a lovely bank balance & pension to enjoy the remaining 100 in retirement :-) |
janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 |
Even though I have no immediate desire to end my stay here on earth I really doubt that I would enjoy life past 100 or so. Even with unlimited resources and a nice friendly planet to travel around on I get the feeling that it would all end up getting very old and stale after a while. Forever young. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHIIATt0BaM |
SciManStev Send message Joined: 20 Jun 99 Posts: 6652 Credit: 121,090,076 RAC: 0 |
I have always wanted to live for hundreds of millions of years. It would be facinating to watch plate tectonics in action. Long term geological changes, the coming and going of species, the changes in cultures would all be facinating to watch. Of course I would still want to retire at 67 or so, and would need to be impervious to wars, famon, meteor strikes, etc. I would just like to be around and witness all the changes. Steve Warning, addicted to SETI crunching! Crunching as a member of GPU Users Group. GPUUG Website |
Bob DeWoody Send message Joined: 9 May 10 Posts: 3387 Credit: 4,182,900 RAC: 10 |
I'm thinking I would like to live long enough to be around when a few key discoveries are made, like is, or was there life on Mars or any other object in our solar system. And of course whether ET exists somewhere in our galaxy. The discovery of what the other 75% or so of the universe consists of, an answer better than dark matter or dark energy which tells us virtually nothing. I may live long enough for the first two questions to be answered but I really doubt whether the last one will ever be answered by mankind. Bob DeWoody My motto: Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow as it may not be required. This no longer applies in light of current events. |
cRunchy Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 3555 Credit: 1,920,030 RAC: 3 |
I suspect that on this planet at the moment the majority average lifespan for those healthy but not in impoverished or hostile environments is perhaps 70-ish years max? I couldn't imagine living beyond that with a body and brain that will just keep getting more and more degraded and knackered. There is a point at which the balance between the hunger for life and the pain or exhaustion of life tips. If I was doing magical thinking however and thought science would be able to keep me healthy and sufferance free OR my body died and my soul would live on then yes I would like to go on forever.. .. but I would hate to float up to heaven and ponce around with wings or live a petty unimportant physical life just living.. For me a better question would be: 'If you could live forever how would you stop yourself falling into complacency and insane futility..' Does anyone remember the movie Zardos? .. but yes I would like to live for the rest of forever as long as it had challenge and the potential of worth.. In that sense even though 70 years is brief and full of challenge it suggests we have already lived a crappy form of forever. To do the Riddick thing.. 'We all start somewhere.' The purpose of life is life. It cares nothing for you or I or our concepts, ideas, feelings or sensibilities. Life passes through us and is a thread that enables us to be and ask such difficult and interesting questions and then casts us off as it throws up more of it's interesting and annoying creative moments. I neither want to continue into 'oneness' or nirvana or into old age and it's general crumblyness, nor do I wish a forever of bland foreverness. As to the issue of ending stay, self termination, suicide or self euthanasia... I think that given we all know we die at some point a life that is not lived fearless of it's end is a life that never really ends. Awareness of mortality is painfull. Good thread \ question Bob DeWoody... It's not really a 'politics' forum question but an any forum thought. To make it more SETI.. I would love to go to Mars.. even if there was no return.. as long as I could have a couple of years... For me that would be worth an eternity.. Forever is a moment transfixed and our natural will to life unbound.. |
janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 |
Seems like Trump from Karlstad has put an end to the idea of living forever:( |
janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 |
I think bacteria's wont let us to live forever. Link to Lynn's thread. https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=81435 |
Gordon Lowe Send message Joined: 5 Nov 00 Posts: 12094 Credit: 6,317,865 RAC: 0 |
Well said, cRunchy: Does anyone remember the movie Zardos? I neither want to continue into 'oneness' or nirvana or into old age and it's general crumblyness, nor do I wish a forever of bland foreverness. As to the issue of ending stay, self termination, suicide or self euthanasia... I think that given we all know we die at some point a life that is not lived fearless of it's end is a life that never really ends. To make it more SETI.. I would love to go to Mars.. even if there was no return.. as long as I could have a couple of years... For me that would be worth an eternity.. Forever is a moment transfixed and our natural will to life unbound.. The mind is a weird and mysterious place |
Bob DeWoody Send message Joined: 9 May 10 Posts: 3387 Credit: 4,182,900 RAC: 10 |
Beyond my terrestrial life, I would love to roam around the universe checking out what really goes on out there. But, alas, I have little confidence in the concept of life after death. Bob DeWoody My motto: Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow as it may not be required. This no longer applies in light of current events. |
Gordon Lowe Send message Joined: 5 Nov 00 Posts: 12094 Credit: 6,317,865 RAC: 0 |
I would love to roam around the universe checking out what really goes on out there. Yes, I think that would be fun, too. :~) The mind is a weird and mysterious place |
Dave(The Admiral)Nelson Send message Joined: 4 Jun 99 Posts: 415 Credit: 22,293,483 RAC: 1 |
Well, I turned 91 yesterday. I well remember those good old days when I was only 70ish. I did a lot of things in my 70's. Had a lot of fun. I'm still in good health though I'm restricted by certain personal responsibilities. I still enjoy life and I'm in no hurry to leave. I'd like to live to see the first manned landing on Mars. In fact I'd volunteer for it even if it was a one way trip. But there will be many well qualified volunteers, one way or round trip. Dave Nelson |
janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 |
Dagny Carlsson http://www.123minsida.se/Bojan/ Sweden's oldest blogger is now 105 years old - and she celebrates with both bubble and limousine. "We have already been drinking a lot of champagne bottles here today," she says. A song about Dagny:) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEMtexyQVNo |
Dave(The Admiral)Nelson Send message Joined: 4 Jun 99 Posts: 415 Credit: 22,293,483 RAC: 1 |
I'll post again when I turn 92. Dave Nelson |
bluestar Send message Joined: 5 Sep 12 Posts: 7031 Credit: 2,084,789 RAC: 3 |
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janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 |
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Bob DeWoody Send message Joined: 9 May 10 Posts: 3387 Credit: 4,182,900 RAC: 10 |
Today I am 68 years old. I never thought I would get this far into life. A few more years wouldn't be a bad thing as long as I don't feel any worse than today. Bob DeWoody My motto: Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow as it may not be required. This no longer applies in light of current events. |
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