[Kazan]

*suddenly thinks of something and cues Queen - Who wants to live forevere?*

[Kazan]

Originally posted by Tiara

Bullets will still kill you, you know It just prevents aging for a veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy long time.

I'm going to start an Ent fan club.

YES! We should all talk old-Entish when we get this anti-aging cure.

personally i'd learn Noldorin and Sindarin, and get my ears reshaped

(after the comma is a joke - before is not)

[Tiara]

Originally posted by Kazan
*suddenly thinks of something and cues Queen - Who wants to live forevere?*

*fires up "Princes of the Universe" and grabs katana*

THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE!

[Kazan]

*scoups up his katanas and goes akimbo*

[Beowulf]

Originally posted by Clave
Cool, I might actually be able to get some projects finished....

WORD.

[Clave]

Yep, my Pacman Total Conversion for Doom 3 is taking place in my mind as we speak...

[Flipside]

That would be cool

[aldo_14]

Bit dark, though.

How about a Frogger TC for half life 2 - with havok physics for the floaty logs?

[Liberator]

Originally posted by pyro-manic
If people live to 1000, then how the hell are we going to support them?

A lot of you are not going to subscribe to this, but we've already been told what our maximum lifespan is.

Book of Genesis, Chapter 6, verse 3
3: Then the LORD said, "My spirit shall not abide in man for ever, for he is flesh, but his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.

God made a subtle change to us after we had spead across the Earth following the Original Sin and the Casting Out from the Garden at Eden.  The sons of Adam lived for so many hundreds of years because they had to in order to spread across the Earth.  Remember, if the Earth was truly uninhabited, save for Adam and his kin, it would have taken lifetimes of that span to fill the Earth.   This verse immeadeately follows the geneology from Adam to Noah.  This was also the time of the Nephalim, or men of renown.  It was likely done to prevent the Nephalim from becoming the Norm as they interbred with human women.

Originally posted by pyro-manic
There's resource shortages as it is, with hundreds of thousands dying all the time.

No, there are distribution problems, such as political tension and  economics preventing shipment and clan/religious hatred and petty warlords preventing delivery once it's in country.  There's a major difference between a shortage and distribution problems.

[Flipside]

Meh, don't go there with the religion stuff, we're trying to avoid that remember

As for the rest, living to 1000 is all well and good, but it is true that we don't even have the facilities to cope with people who get to as old as 80

[pyro-manic]

Lib - if we were to raise living standards of everyone on the planet to the European average, we'd need 6 Earths to support them all (or something like that - can't remember the exact figures). True, solving distribution and sharing problems would go a long way to solving current problems, but it wouldn't be enough. However, it is posible to re-distribute resources so that everyone gets a fair share, and a good standard of living. However, that isn't possible, what with people being greedy bastards.

As for the 120-year span thing, that sounds like a reasonable time. If everybody lived properly healthily, and didn't muck about with their bodies, they could easily reach 100 and beyond.


(NB: the "hundreds of thousands dying" thing refers to all deaths on the planet, not just early or unnatural ones)

[Flipside]

It is possible for the Earth to support us all. It would actually mean a large increase in the standard of living for a large percentage of the planet. Problem is, it would mean a notable drop in the standard of living in the only people that could make it happen. Therefore, it won't

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by Liberator


A lot of you are not going to subscribe to this, but we've already been told what our maximum lifespan is.

 

God made a subtle change to us after we had spead across the Earth following the Original Sin and the Casting Out from the Garden at Eden.  The sons of Adam lived for so many hundreds of years because they had to in order to spread across the Earth.  Remember, if the Earth was truly uninhabited, save for Adam and his kin, it would have taken lifetimes of that span to fill the Earth.   This verse immeadeately follows the geneology from Adam to Noah.  This was also the time of the Nephalim, or men of renown.  It was likely done to prevent the Nephalim from becoming the Norm as they interbred with human women.



No, there are distribution problems, such as political tension and  economics preventing shipment and clan/religious hatred and petty warlords preventing delivery once it's in country.  There's a major difference between a shortage and distribution problems.

Of course, virtually no-one even gets to 100 (and not in one piece), and the oldest person ever lived to 122.......and isn't Methuselah aged 969 in the Bible?

Er, aside from theological matters & the impending thread doom they present (eep),  it's hard to see how you could fit everyone onto the surface of the planet without destroying it.... pollution, resource shortages (and there most definately would be), deforestation, etc.

On the other hand, think how much you'd be able to see during your lifetime.

[Styxx]

Originally posted by Liberator
A lot of you are not going to subscribe to this, but we've already been told what our maximum lifespan is....

Now don't start to ****ing whine when people bash you for your religious statements. This subject has nothing to do whatsoever with religion, and still you have to bring something religious up. I'm getting real tired of this.

[WeatherOp]

I will go with what some said above, if you lived to be 1000 things would be boring, plus if any of your loved ones die you would have to live a 1000 years and that would be torture.

And about the "no one gets to 100 in one piece" , they showed a guy in Alabama on NBC13 who was a 100, he was more healthy than most 60 year olds and could pass for a 70 year old, if I live to be a 80 or so, let me be like him or my Grandmother who is 80, and still lives by herself, plants her own garden, and still shoots animals for eating the apples of her tree. But, if I get so sick and they stick me in bed forever then I would want to die.

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by Styxx


Now don't start to ****ing whine when people bash you for your religious statements. This subject has nothing to do whatsoever with religion, and still you have to bring something religious up. I'm getting real tired of this.

To be fair, it is mentioned (God) in the last paragraph of the linked article.

To be doubly fair, it's also pretty much dealt with there, too.

To be triply fair...er.... um... yes.

Originally posted by WeatherOp
I will go with what some said above, if you lived to be 1000 things would be boring, plus if any of your loved ones die you would have to live a 1000 years and that would be torture.

And about the "no one gets to 100 in one piece" , they showed a guy in Alabam on NBC13 who was a 100, he was more healthy than most 60 year olds and could pass for a 70 year old, if I live to be a 80 or so, let me be like him or my Grandmother who is 80, and still lives by herself, plants her own garden, and still shoots animals for eating the apples of her tree. But, if I get so sick and they stick me in bed forever then I would want to die.

Yeah, but you wouldn't choose being at that age at any other point in your life.  It's a case of "'that's ok - for a 70 year old", y'know?  You'll never be in the same state when you were at, say, 28.

[WeatherOp]

Yeah, but if you got in a car wreak and got paralized when your 28, and can live to be a 1000, what would be the point in living 972 more years, don't get me wrong that it happens nowadays, but you won't have to live with that problem that long and it would drive most people insane.

[Styxx]

Originally posted by aldo_14
To be fair, it is mentioned (God) in the last paragraph of the linked article.

To be doubly fair, it's also pretty much dealt with there, too.

To be triply fair...er.... um... yes.

Yeah, right. My point still stands - he he doesn't want people mocking him for his views, he shouldn't post them on every single damned thread. Saying that "it will never happen because my infallible god said so" is not a worthwile, or even valid, opinion on this discussion, and he should have shut the **** up. If he wants to argue that it's not viable, or not ethical, or whatever, be my guest.

[Taristin]

In before the lock!

[Flipside]

hehehehe Well, in all fairness Styxx is right, if you don't want to have to defend your views, then don't throw them at people I've made views that were wrong before, and been forced to alter them to deal with what people on here have pointed out to me, that which don't learn, don't grow