Do you think we will live indefinitely?

Hey gyts,

So anyway, you know we are like 25 years old I guess nno average or somethgin.

So let's say a normal uman lifespan right onow is like 80 years or something.

so guys the humanity has 55 years to invent kindof immortality.

Do you tihink they will make it++?

55 years ago we didn't have ipphonoes. NOw we have iphones.

now we donät have mimmortality. 44 years from now we have.

QED?

Are you drunk or have your account been hacked?

No, we won't invent "immortality" in that timespan. It's a much more complex problem than making smart phones.

Have you recently had a lobotomy?

You don't normally type like that

...No offense, but you could literally say that about any invention or innovation that ever has existed or will exist. It doesn't make it true or provide any kind of actual proof or measurement that the future invention will be created.

To answer your original question, no. That's an incredibly advanced thing create, develop and perfect in the time of our remaining lifespans: our species might not even be able to invent it at all.

this...does not seem like The major mayor I am used to.

*scratches beard*

Here's a start.

No.

I hope not.

We need a name for GS drunk posting.

Humans can barely agree on ways to prevent global threats (climate) without delving into petty politics, I doubt we'll ever get far enough to achieve immortality.

Hows your HOT german g.f? :)

i wouldn't wanna live indefinitely

It's kind of an interesting topic. Some science magazines and TV series have delved into discussion about the kinds of hurdles we would have to overcome to "live forever", and even then that really depends on what your definition of "living forever" is.

It's unlikely that you and I will live forever in this life. I think there is life after death though, personally, so I would imagine we all live on after this in some different realm. But it's comforting to think that you can have children and contribute to the future of human civilization in that way. You can bring another life into existence.

We don't need humans to agree on anything to achieve immortality though. The rich 1% spend gazillions on anti-age/life extension herbs/pills/whatevers. There is enormous support for life extension research. Mr. Google said 2023 will probably be the year that some humans would become immortal. And that seems more unlikely than it is.

His reasoning was, that we would find a way to extend human life with about a year in 2023. And we would proceed to find ways to extend human life a year more soon after. And bit by bit we'd effectively extend some human lives indefinitely.

I wonder how the human psyche would handle immortality?

It'll take the alpha male set two minutes to figure out immortality =/= invincibility.

@br0kenrabbit: Yeah, but after 100,000 years of that mindset... where would they be? Or anyone? I don't think the human psyche could handle 100,000 years... let alone a couple hundred.

We'd all die due to accident within a few centuries, probably long before. We aren't the most graceful of creatures.

@br0kenrabbit: True dat...

Lol no. I'm religious so don't think there will ever be a time where humans could live forever, the world'll end before that happens.

I've spent a lot of time thinking about death recently and I've wondered if we end up somewhere else in the universe somehow once we die. If the universe really is infinite then so should the possibilities right? But then I think of how stupid that is and realize that we just disappear and our presence in the world quickly becomes irrelevant.

Ain't gonna happen in my lifetime so don't care...live your life to your fullest now (live a life that makes you happy).. then you won't have to worry or be scared of death. :P

I recall reading that immortality would be physically impossible depending on the topography of the universe and if the universe is going to just keep on expanding.

So, like...what does physics have to say about this? I don't recall if the issue of the universe's fate has been definitively settled or not.

But if the universe is just going to keep expanding forever, then that sort of kills the very idea of immortality, doesn't it?

Perhaps science will find a way to upload our conciousness to a cloud while our physical bodies die.

However who would want that kind of fate anyways. It sounds very intrusive of nature and the way life is meant to be.

English please.

But this is kind of like saying "Hey, if we can put a man on the surface of the moon, then we should be able to put a man on the surface of the sun!"

The fastest way to get an apples to oranges comparison is to compare two impressive looking ideas where the person doing the comparing has absolutely no concept of how either works.

-Byshop

No but "they" wish, heck "they" couldn't even keep mister 8 hearts Rockefeller alive.

Yeah it's unlike him to even make threads, isn't it?

Ain't that the truth. Even if aging stopped, it doesn't make us immune to disease, bullets, shrapnel, impaling, poisons, heights, smoke, fire, and all the other life ending things this planet has to offer.

What about when we're inevitably able to back up our consciousness to a hard drive, and can then transfer our consciousness into a substitute robot body?

So, like, you could just make sure to back up your consciousness every 6 months and then you (from 6 months ago) can still live on in the event of death.

Of course, the consequences of this would be catastrophic. But I'm sure the concept could make for a really cool science fiction story.

Immortality is not possible. We're made of flesh and blood. If you get shot or stabbed or have a fatal car crash you will die.

I don't wanna live forever like that. Immortality is a curse and when my time is over on Earth, I'll be very happy cause Death is part of life after all. No matter how much it pains our love one's to see us die, it's life the way it was meant to be, living for centuries isn't something I could do or ever think of.

I deal with Deaths all the time, so it's why I'm not afraid to die with no regrets.

I don't get the question and this is me saying that too. lol

I thought you was going to ask if our civilisation will last for ever. By the way I'm not 25 years old :D Must be drunk.

"So anyway, you know we are like 25 years old I guess nno average or somethgin" lol ????????.

But is that really you, or just a copy?

That's the whole point. If nothing else, that'd cause havok when it comes to the laws that'd require in order to deal with that scenario. If you back up your consciousness every six months and then delete the old copies, then wouldn't that be murder? What about its effect on other criminal activity? You could have criminals backing up their consciousness just before committing a serious crime, that way if they get caught they can just kill themselves and then have their older selves activated as a way of getting off scott free. What about when someone's backup self gets activated before the original is destroyed and there are two copies of the same dude? Which one lays claim to that person's identity (after all, they can BOTH legitimately say, "I built this fortune, therefore I'm entitled to it")?

Even if that were somehow possible, I think there'd probably be a total ban on doing it simply because of all the nightmare scenarios that doing this would create.

But again, I bet it could make for some good sci-fi. I'll bet you could craft some really good courtroom dramas or crime stories around this scenario.

@MrGeezer: Who knows what'll be possible in a few decades, or a few hundred years. I doubt the human psyche, individually or collectively, is ready for it. We'll see (or our descendants will)... assuming we make it that far. Who knows.

get bitten by a vampire.. let's hunt Count Dracula !

Everyone will die at one point, so "real" immortality is impossible. Maybe you stop aging, but you can die from accidents. Transferring "you" into a machine is more a copying than a moving, so the "real" you still dies. And even if there is a way to keep you alive "forever" without accidents the universe itself will end. You will die, better start accepting it.

yes, but not in that timeframe

Earth has population problems already. Just think if everyone was immortal. That is terrible population control. also death is as much a part of life as breathing.