Artsysiridean
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I wouldn't mind riding this lifetime to the ends of the universe. But that's the greed talking.
I'll be satisfied if I make it to 30.
I'll be satisfied if I make it to 30.
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How long can we expect to live?
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nasher168 said:
With our current understanding of medicine and the human body, scientists have established a 'soft-line' for human aging. We estimate that it is possible for human beings to become 120-125 years. This does not include future technologies like organ regeneration.
Raymond Kurzweil said last week he believes we could reach immortality in the next 20 years. I personally doubt that, but in science everything is possible
There's no less reason to believe you can lift a truck as you can live indefinately due to genetic engineering.
You don't even need to have enormous muscle mass. The human body is a well oiled machine and has a resilience about it when it comes to stress. People have lifted trucks before, both with the muscle mass of a monster and without it( Adrenaline ).
Would it do damage? Possibly. Conditioning the human body to repair damage quickly would make that a non-issue.
You don't even need to have enormous muscle mass. The human body is a well oiled machine and has a resilience about it when it comes to stress. People have lifted trucks before, both with the muscle mass of a monster and without it( Adrenaline ).
Would it do damage? Possibly. Conditioning the human body to repair damage quickly would make that a non-issue.
I would say that anyone under about 50 right now on average has a chance to live forever which gets higher and higher the younger you are.
Of course live and forever and human are a sort of variable in there...
The physical body and genetic you that you are right now can only live, without modification to about 150 years under perfect conditions if i remember right.
Genetically you can be altered to the point where you can live indefinitely in the form you are now baring any accident from happening and supposing you only wish to live in a "human way"
Of course then we ask are we still human?
Of course we could also discard our human bodies all together which means we are just consciousness, but we still need some sort of physical body which we can transfer into and a lot of people might not see this as living nor as being human.
Of course that has it's limitations too... The universe will eventually "die" and nothing will be able to survive in what we call the universe and that's the end of forever, but hypothetically we could continue on through time travel and quantum things we don't know much about yet.
So depending on what you mean by live and forever and human... we could live forever, through the death of our universe and the birth of a new one, or till about 150.
Of course live and forever and human are a sort of variable in there...
The physical body and genetic you that you are right now can only live, without modification to about 150 years under perfect conditions if i remember right.
Genetically you can be altered to the point where you can live indefinitely in the form you are now baring any accident from happening and supposing you only wish to live in a "human way"
Of course then we ask are we still human?
Of course we could also discard our human bodies all together which means we are just consciousness, but we still need some sort of physical body which we can transfer into and a lot of people might not see this as living nor as being human.
Of course that has it's limitations too... The universe will eventually "die" and nothing will be able to survive in what we call the universe and that's the end of forever, but hypothetically we could continue on through time travel and quantum things we don't know much about yet.
So depending on what you mean by live and forever and human... we could live forever, through the death of our universe and the birth of a new one, or till about 150.
I expect we would lose our humanity if we were to live for millions of years. Chances are we would see so many terrible things we would go mad. I expect many would commit suicide before they hit 1000.
I read a book a while ago called "One Million Tomorrows" in which people had found a cure for mortality, but it left males with no sexual pleasure or arousal. In that, it talks about how many 200 year-olds went looking for dangerous activities in the subconscious hope that they would have a fatal accident.
I read a book a while ago called "One Million Tomorrows" in which people had found a cure for mortality, but it left males with no sexual pleasure or arousal. In that, it talks about how many 200 year-olds went looking for dangerous activities in the subconscious hope that they would have a fatal accident.