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Subject: Do you ever have that realization...
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...that your life is merely 80-90 years amongst the millions of years that have passed? Do you know anyone from 15 million years ago, or someone from 500 years ago?

All of these people, for however long they are known in their life, fade away into the unknown like their very existence has been erased.

The atoms that form the tissues, bones and skin in my hands could be billions of miles away from where they are now at some point in the future.

People 5000 years from now probably won't know our names or what we did like our lives were meaningless. All we will have done is contributed to the survival of our species. To me that's not enough. I want to become more than something that lived and died like a reptile from the Triassic period.

It saddens me that we have to leave.

[Edited on 12.31.2012 5:59 PM PST]

  • 12.31.2012 5:58 PM PDT

Why hello there, and welcome to my account details!

Not really, I wont give a poop when i'm dead

  • 12.31.2012 5:58 PM PDT

Varsity rower

yolo

  • 12.31.2012 5:59 PM PDT

Nahman Jayden, Eff bee eye. I herd that you're the origammy killah...

Won't make a difference if we're dead. WE MUST DISCOVER A WAY TO PREVENT AGING!
*locks self in lab for years in order to create immortality serum*

  • 12.31.2012 6:01 PM PDT

Do you really want to know?


Posted by: Th4EvilH4nd
yolo


Die, you fiend.

Yes, I feel that my life is short and insignificant.

...

Until I'm shooting telomerase boosts into myself.

  • 12.31.2012 6:01 PM PDT

Digging Foxholes by Profession
Accept No Substitutes

I intend to be alive 5000 years from now.

  • 12.31.2012 6:03 PM PDT

I am the God Emprah of Mankind.

Deal with it.

Of the things I hate, not being able to see Humanity grow wiser and move forward, is one of them.

Not to mention that I won't be able to help, at least not yet.

  • 12.31.2012 6:04 PM PDT

OMG
Master Chief w/o his Helmet!


Stosh <3's me vicariously... at least someone does...

Here's the thing:


You won't care when you're dead. You won't think about anything.

So you won't be sad.

  • 12.31.2012 6:06 PM PDT

Per Audacia Ad Astra

Posted by: Silentone2
You won't care when you're dead. You won't think about anything.
So you won't be sad.
That is the easy way out of this question. I award you no points.

Does anyone else want to live forever? Dying sucks.

  • 12.31.2012 6:07 PM PDT


Posted by: Bungie Sam
Posted by: Silentone2
You won't care when you're dead. You won't think about anything.
So you won't be sad.
That is the easy way out of this question. I award you no points.

Does anyone else want to live forever? Dying sucks.


Maybe not live forever, but a lot longer than we can currently manage! Living forever would become boring and tedious. At some point I'd want to see where the mysteries of death would lead, even if nowhere.

  • 12.31.2012 6:09 PM PDT
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Well, here we are. I guess that it was destined to come to this.


Posted by: spiderman2343
Not really, I wont give a poop when i'm dead

Oh, you'll poop. They nearly all do.

  • 12.31.2012 6:09 PM PDT
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Posted by: Telec
Remember kids: when Uncle Delta tells you he has sweeties, he isn't lying.

Now get in the van.


The Black Chapter

Yes.
Why do you think I drink?

  • 12.31.2012 6:10 PM PDT

Digging Foxholes by Profession
Accept No Substitutes


Posted by: Bungie Sam
Posted by: Silentone2
You won't care when you're dead. You won't think about anything.
So you won't be sad.
That is the easy way out of this question. I award you no points.

Does anyone else want to live forever? Dying sucks.

The concept of living forever isn't something one should become too attached to. In a universe that's slowly stirring itself into entropy, nothing is forever. But I wasn't trolling when I said I plan to live for 5000 years. I expect that medical and technological advances will occur within our lifetime - and expand that lifetime.

Biological immortality is possible. Scientists have a pretty good idea of how, too. They just have to figure out that tricky leap between imagining and doing.

  • 12.31.2012 6:10 PM PDT

Meh, I pretty much think my life is pointless and in the short time that I have it I may as well try and enjoy myself. Too much stress is put on so many people by others. If life is so short I don't understand why it has to suck so much.

  • 12.31.2012 6:18 PM PDT
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Well, here we are. I guess that it was destined to come to this.

"Nothing is true; everything is permitted"

  • 12.31.2012 6:20 PM PDT

I am the God Emprah of Mankind.

Deal with it.


Posted by: Recon Number 54
"Nothing is true; everything is permitted"

OP, Recon just gave us permission to live forever!

Don't worry, it's all fine now.

  • 12.31.2012 6:24 PM PDT
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"I know not what weapons World War III will be fought with, but I do know that World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."

-Albert Einstein


Posted by: DIDACT_SYSTEM
It saddens me that we have to leave.


themfeelsman.jpg

  • 12.31.2012 6:24 PM PDT

"I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle- victorious"

Posted by: DeltaFiveZero

Posted by: Bungie Sam
Posted by: Silentone2
You won't care when you're dead. You won't think about anything.
So you won't be sad.
That is the easy way out of this question. I award you no points.

Does anyone else want to live forever? Dying sucks.

The concept of living forever isn't something one should become too attached to. In a universe that's slowly stirring itself into entropy, nothing is forever. But I wasn't trolling when I said I plan to live for 5000 years. I expect that medical and technological advances will occur within our lifetime - and expand that lifetime.

Biological immortality is possible. Scientists have a pretty good idea of how, too. They just have to figure out that tricky leap between imagining and doing.


Even if those technological breakthroughs are made, we won't have access to that technology for a long time. Chances are, that the rich and affluent will have access to the immortality first. We would be dead by the time it was released to the general public.

[Edited on 12.31.2012 6:27 PM PST]

  • 12.31.2012 6:26 PM PDT

I am the God Emprah of Mankind.

Deal with it.


Posted by: M4L1K jr
Posted by: DeltaFiveZero

Posted by: Bungie Sam
Posted by: Silentone2
You won't care when you're dead. You won't think about anything.
So you won't be sad.
That is the easy way out of this question. I award you no points.

Does anyone else want to live forever? Dying sucks.

The concept of living forever isn't something one should become too attached to. In a universe that's slowly stirring itself into entropy, nothing is forever. But I wasn't trolling when I said I plan to live for 5000 years. I expect that medical and technological advances will occur within our lifetime - and expand that lifetime.

Biological immortality is possible. Scientists have a pretty good idea of how, too. They just have to figure out that tricky leap between imagining and doing.


Even if those technological breakthroughs are made, we won't have access to that technology for a long time. Chances are, that the rich and affluent will have access to the immortality first. We would be dead by the time it was released to the general public.

That is why we have the 2nd Amendment.

Equals things out a bit.

  • 12.31.2012 6:29 PM PDT


Posted by: Assassin 11D7
That is why we have the 2nd Amendment.

Equals things out a bit.


That would hardly work.

  • 12.31.2012 6:30 PM PDT

"I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle- victorious"

Posted by: Assassin 11D7

Posted by: M4L1K jr
Posted by: DeltaFiveZero

Posted by: Bungie Sam
Posted by: Silentone2
You won't care when you're dead. You won't think about anything.
So you won't be sad.
That is the easy way out of this question. I award you no points.

Does anyone else want to live forever? Dying sucks.

The concept of living forever isn't something one should become too attached to. In a universe that's slowly stirring itself into entropy, nothing is forever. But I wasn't trolling when I said I plan to live for 5000 years. I expect that medical and technological advances will occur within our lifetime - and expand that lifetime.

Biological immortality is possible. Scientists have a pretty good idea of how, too. They just have to figure out that tricky leap between imagining and doing.


Even if those technological breakthroughs are made, we won't have access to that technology for a long time. Chances are, that the rich and affluent will have access to the immortality first. We would be dead by the time it was released to the general public.

That is why we have the 2nd Amendment.

Equals things out a bit.


Not everyone lives in America silly!

  • 12.31.2012 6:31 PM PDT

I am the God Emprah of Mankind.

Deal with it.


Posted by: aTALLmidget

Posted by: Assassin 11D7
That is why we have the 2nd Amendment.

Equals things out a bit.


That would hardly work.

The British said the same, did they not?

  • 12.31.2012 6:31 PM PDT


Posted by: Assassin 11D7

Posted by: aTALLmidget

Posted by: Assassin 11D7
That is why we have the 2nd Amendment.

Equals things out a bit.


That would hardly work.

The British said the same, did they not?


Is this a reference to the Revolutionary War? Because times are far different now - some civilians with guns won't do much against the powerful rich who ALSO have the 2nd Amendment AND can hire Private Military Contracts.

  • 12.31.2012 6:33 PM PDT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDf6uRabKPE


Posted by: DIDACT_SYSTEM
...that your life is merely 80-90 years amongst the millions of years that have passed? Do you know anyone from 15 million years ago, or someone from 500 years ago?

All of these people, for however long they are known in their life, fade away into the unknown like their very existence has been erased.

The atoms that form the tissues, bones and skin in my hands could be billions of miles away from where they are now at some point in the future.

People 5000 years from now probably won't know our names or what we did like our lives were meaningless. All we will have done is contributed to the survival of our species. To me that's not enough. I want to become more than something that lived and died like a reptile from the Triassic period.

It saddens me that we have to leave.

Make a AI program in a coding language of yourself that always updates itself and shares your memory with everyone...lol.

  • 12.31.2012 6:34 PM PDT

Per Audacia Ad Astra

Posted by: kiknwing11
Make a AI program in a coding language of yourself that always updates itself and shares your memory with everyone...lol.
Basically make the Cortana equivalent of myself?

I'd love to do that and you've further encouraged me. Time will tell, the technology of the future is questionable but I'll try my best at such an inspirational idea.

  • 12.31.2012 6:35 PM PDT

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