Hahahahaha - you fools! While you're out buying up useless gold, I'll be cornering the market for the one thing no sane, civilized person can do without!
Posted on 09/17/2002 10:50:04 AM PDT by sourcery
Or gold futures. :)
Let's refine our Impending Catastrophe Financial Plan.
Borrow lots of money, THEN buy gold.
Don't worry, next week the theory will be accelerated universe expansion, fueled by - you guessed it. Just imagine what long distance rates will become as the galaxies drift ever outward.
Hahahahaha - you fools! While you're out buying up useless gold, I'll be cornering the market for the one thing no sane, civilized person can do without!
Oops! I thought this article said 10 million years and I was starting to get worried.
Never mind.
dan
Oh no. I've made 43 converts to the religion and
we're having a retreat in the Clochemerle pissoir.
I think we'll just go ahead, anyway.
If this is true, I wonder if there is a way either (1) to prevent the collapse from happening or (2) to escape to one of the surviving parts of the universe.
Quick answer: Yes.
Explanation for that answer. (short version)
The technology curve, as I call it, is the rate which conscious man creates advanced technology. For example, it was 1,500 years from the creation/invention of the horse drawn wagon to the invention/creation of the bicycle -- then another 350 years to the invention of the first steam car (soon after was the steam engine-train) -- then eighty years to the first automobile -- then twenty years to the first airplane, etc. (I'm doing this from memory so the figures may be a bit off.)
The technology curve can also show the human longevity increasing on a curve. From 1801 to 1899 human longevity added five years to the average life expectancy. In the last century live expectancy grew by fifteen years.
Today we can track human longevity by the month. That is, for example, in the year 2000 the longevity fields increased life expectancy by one month. In 2001 they increased life expectancy by two months. This year, 2002, life expectancy will increase by three months. Not to far into the future a median line is crossed were for each year that passes life expectancy will increase by more than one year. The curve will continue to a single year extending life expectancy by ten years.
The point. Biological immortality is inevitable. Inevitable barring nuclear/chemical/biological holocaust brought on by man. Prime health biological immortality -- people with bodies as that of a person in their mid twenties.
The technology curve will extend beyond Earth into space. It already has. There is no end to which man can work within nature's laws of physics to create ever greater technology for the betterment of himself and civilization.
So to answer your question: " I wonder if there is a way either (1) to prevent the collapse from happening or (2) to escape to one of the surviving parts of the universe." Yes.
As a side note. When people eventually do live forever revisionist history losses it's power. For example, if biologic immortality was possible 225 years ago the founding fathers would still be living today and governments around the world would not be able to initiate force against any person and escape punishment for their crimes. With biologic immortality comes a radical paradigm shift in how man relates to himself and his environment. All diseases are cured and crime is eliminated.
Living forever is profound. A person will create more values (goods and services tradable in free markets) than all those created prior to his birth.
All that said, the first generation of people on Earth to attain biologic immortality will get to find out if they are the first conscious beings in our Universe to stop the Universe from collapsing and thus wiping out all conscious beings in the Universe. IMO, the possibility of our Universe collapsing has already been thwarted by conscious beings living elsewhere in the Universe. With the 14 billion year old Universe there has been more than enough time for conscious beings to develop in several locations in the Universe long before any life on Earth existed.
Now that is strange too!!!
LOL!!!
Thank you for your attention.
Should be quite a show.
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