Posted on 06/27/2024 12:43:12 PM PDT by Red Badger
Great news for the divorce lawyers....................
My sister who is 80 complains all the time about having to do the maintenance tasks like feeding herself or taking care of brushing teeth and maintaining her hair. People with that attitude would kill themselves rather than live a thousand years.
I’m 70 and every step is painful. Other than that, I have no complaints. If I thought I had another fifty productive years, pain free years, I’d learn some new skills and start another business. I look forward to every day and I love cooking, eating and mundane tasks don’t bother me. But a thousand years? I think some people improve the world when they die. I’ve had a few bosses that if I still worked under them, I’d have killed myself. Politicians of almost any ilk already hang onto power WAY too long. If they were once perfect for the job, they eventually get stale and resistant to change. (I think Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden have been hollowed out and someone is wearing their skin and animating them.)
Perhaps if we lived to be even two hundred, there would be laws forcing people out of their jobs, or power, after a period. If not, the entire society would ossify.
Science has shown that the longer we can live, the more likely we will be taken out by cancer until the certainty becomes 100%.
The best we can do is keep our level of functionality at a higher point to a later age. Say, for example, having the same functionality as a 60 year old when you are 80 years old.
Just how I’d like to live for over 900 years: a brain in a vat.
No.
God is gonna shake His mighty head
He’ll either say I’m pleased where man has been
Or tear it down, and start again
Anyone want to be a garbage man for a thousand years? Raise your hand.
We know (well, some of us do) what happened the last time people lived, godlessly, (almost) 1000 years. "Their imaginations were only evil continually, and the earth was full of violence.
I think of all the things that we could finally get done if we lived that long.
Car garages would finally get organized, the clutter drawers cleaned up, perhaps eventually have the wedding anniversary date memorized, it would be an entirely new world.
If the nanobots deal with cancer and what causes pain, augmenting your immune system, doing repairs, and doesn’t turn into a horror show, I wouldn’t mind sticking around to see what happens.
In a thousand years you could visit every town on Earth..................
Good, it’s going to take me that long to understand women.
I would think that in a thousand years you could get an education, start a business and become a billionaire..............
Unless the person is living in a bubble, a human would not live more than 150 to 200 years, tops, even with the supposed life span of 1,000 years.
Of course accidents will take peoples lives. They were talking about using nanobots to cure diseases like cancers and people staying healthy with artificial organs and limbs......
If you haven’t mastered those things by now, you probably won’t in a thousand years.
(And who knows what kind of world(s) you’d be living in?)
I think most 100 year olds would say heck no to another 900 years!
Google quoted Wikipedia as saying there are over 4 million different towns and cities from all the countries of the Earth.
1000 years = 365,000 days. So that’s more than 10.9 towns per day. Not quality visits.
I suggest stereotyping and minimum size limits. These villages in China are all the same. And if you don’t have a population of 1000+, you just aren’t interesting.
This guy will be no more than dust in his grave for eons before his predictions ever come to pass.
Put on your hipwaders before you jump into this pile of soggy fertilizer.
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