Actually, yeah. Not sure how I missed that. I presume it was the combination of topic title and poll title. I supsect this was the same for other people.Heartattack wrote:I'm amazed at how people continue to blatantly misinterpret what Destiny is asking despite how clear he is in the OP. The only thing his specified version of immortality would prevent is death by natural causes, and aging. You can still die from, say, your planet being destroyed, or colliding with a star.
If you could live forever, would you?
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[/ispoiler]Tsukatu wrote:I don't know what it is, squibbles, but my brain keeps inserting "black" into random parts of your posts these days.
I totally just read that as, "I'd hate to be the only black guy stuck using v1.4."
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Hey don't mind me; you're 'allowed' to do whatever you want. I was just mildly annoyed by what seemed to me to be people taking Destiny to task based on an immortality that wasn't the one he was talking about. Looking back, I think I might have imagined the offenses, but what can I say, it was just before lunch.DemonzLunchBreak wrote:I assumed we were allowed to talk about the idea in abstract, as well as the specific example in the OP.
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It would be really cool if I died at the age of 80 years, 6 months and 1 day
Then I could be a ghost
but I only choose to haunt someplace cool!
Then I could be a ghost
but I only choose to haunt someplace cool!
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The avatar is great!29403 wrote:It would be really cool if I died at the age of 80 years, 6 months and 1 day
Then I could be a ghost
but I only choose to haunt someplace cool!
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...any particular reason for that exact date?29403 wrote:It would be really cool if I died at the age of 80 years, 6 months and 1 day
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I just made it up to be honest :|
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It's 29403 days.
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Bah, you got me there.
It would be bloody freaky if I died at that age. Shoulda chosen a higher number for my username in the first place.
It would be bloody freaky if I died at that age. Shoulda chosen a higher number for my username in the first place.
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I've always thought 36 would be a good age to die at. Nice, round number.
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Too young. Haven't had kids or have young ones, haven't even had a midlife crisis yet.hairscapades wrote:I've always thought 36 would be a good age to die at. Nice, round number.
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Haha my mom died at 36.hairscapades wrote:I've always thought 36 would be a good age to die at. Nice, round number.
And she'd had 4 kids by then :pVyacheslav wrote:Too young. Haven't had kids or have young ones, haven't even had a midlife crisis yet.
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Some will fall in love with life and drink it from a fountain
that is pouring like an avalanche
coming down the mountain
that is pouring like an avalanche
coming down the mountain
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Don't you mean nice, square number?hairscapades wrote:I've always thought 36 would be a good age to die at. Nice, round number.
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Heartattack wrote:100 years of yelling at kids and shitting my pants is well worth living /forever/ in a young body.
Even if you managed to survive a hundred or so years in the body of a 70-year-old (which I don't think is that likely) there's no guarantee you'd be able to return to your youth for long enough to make it viable. Prevention of death by aging still means you could just as easily die in an accident or natural disaster or some uber-epic-futuristic-cyber-crime of the 22nd century that can't be described with the vocabulary of today.Destiny wrote:The article says age-reversing comes 'some decades later'. And that's worth it a hundred times over to be 70 for a few decades before being able to return to your youth. An old man can still be a young man in a world where recreation is largely dominated by virtual reality in any case.
Living forever isn't that easy.
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Agreed. Even if we forsake our biology for man-made material (which I imagine is impossible to do completely), tons of shit can still happen. Plus, until the time we forsake our biology, we will still be susceptible to all the biological problems that have nothing to do with age. Like Ebola.999_Springs wrote:Even if you managed to survive a hundred or so years in the body of a 70-year-old (which I don't think is that likely) there's no guarantee you'd be able to return to your youth for long enough to make it viable. Prevention of death by aging still means you could just as easily die in an accident or natural disaster or some uber-epic-futuristic-cyber-crime of the 22nd century that can't be described with the vocabulary of today.
Living forever isn't that easy.
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You are right by all means, but I still consider it a risk worth taking. I mean if you look at it it's either certain death or potential death, and I know which i'd prefer.
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That.xVxCrushloaderusSupremusxVx wrote:This.DemonzLunchBreak wrote:I would like to choose when and how I die. And I would like to put that death off until some time in the distant future, if ever.
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[13:50:53] <Zeph> omfg 1950s jazz 
[13:50:57] <WorldCupE> ZEPH
[13:51:01] <WorldCupE> WHAT
[13:51:11] <WorldCupE> hpw
[13:51:12] <WorldCupE> how
[13:51:12] <Zeph> everyone wears out halfway through the match
[13:51:15] <WorldCupE> ._.
[13:51:17] <WorldCupE> you
[13:51:19] <WorldCupE> aren't
[13:51:20] <WorldCupE> here
[13:51:24] <WorldCupikaze> I think the broadcasters lowered the volume for certain frequencies
[13:51:35] <WorldCupikaze> WOAH
[13:51:38] <WorldCupikaze> STOP IT ZEPH
[13:51:46] <WorldCupE> he's in #n
[13:51:49] <WorldCupE> but not here
[13:51:58] <Zeph> that nz guy wasn't fouled
[13:52:05] <WorldCupikaze> DUBBLE YOO. TEE. EFF.
[13:52:05] <WorldCupikaze> STOPIT
[13:52:29] <WorldCupE> I don't think Zeph can read what we say
[13:52:38] <WorldCupikaze> No
[13:52:41] <WorldCupikaze> But it still happens
[13:52:46] <WorldCupE> xD
[13:52:47] <Zeph> holy shot I'm vibrating to 1950s relaxing jazz
[13:52:58] <WorldCupE> ZEPH
[13:53:01] <WorldCupE> CAN YOYU HEAR ME
[13:53:20] <WorldCupE> donfuy
[13:53:23] <WorldCupE> have you seen this
[13:53:35] <Donfuy> i can't
[13:53:43] <WorldCupE> can't what
[13:53:47] <WorldCupE> Zeph isn't here
[13:53:48] <WorldCupikaze> WHAT's GOING ON
[13:53:51] <WorldCupE> but is speaking
[13:53:51] <WorldCupE> D:
[13:53:58] <Donfuy> can't see what huh?
[13:54:06] <WorldCupikaze> IT'S THE APOCALYPSE
[13:54:10] <Donfuy> where's zeph o_o
[13:54:18] <WorldCupE> precisely
[13:54:21] <WorldCupikaze> Exactly
[13:55:21] <WorldCupikaze> call wide
[13:55:24] <Zeph> Pooh
[13:55:28] <WorldCupikaze> EH?
[13:55:37] <WorldCupikaze> OOOOOOOOoh
[13:55:38] <Zeph> amazing slide tackle saves day
[13:55:48] <WorldCupikaze> WHY ARE YOU TALKING YOU AREN'T HERE
[13:56:53] <WorldCupikaze> call wide
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[13:32:44] <Zeph> fucking irc app
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NOT A POSTZephyr wrote:That.xVxCrushloaderusSupremusxVx wrote:This.DemonzLunchBreak wrote:I would like to choose when and how I die. And I would like to put that death off until some time in the distant future, if ever.
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This.=w= wrote:NOT A POSTZephyr wrote:That.xVxCrushloaderusSupremusxVx wrote: This.
vankusss wrote:What 'more time' means?
I'm going to buy some ham.
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That.Kablizzy wrote:This.=w= wrote:NOT A POST
[/ispoiler]Tsukatu wrote:I don't know what it is, squibbles, but my brain keeps inserting "black" into random parts of your posts these days.
I totally just read that as, "I'd hate to be the only black guy stuck using v1.4."
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I feel like I'm taking this too far, but:squibbles wrote:That.Kablizzy wrote:This.=w= wrote:NOT A POST
NOT A POST
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