Stories straight out of movies like "Prometheus" and "Terminator Salvation". Is the search for immortality selfish? If you are going to have much longer life spans then that will mean the state will eventually have to ration births. Only when someone dies by accident will that open up a slot for a couple to have a child.
1 posted on
03/06/2015 5:59:42 AM PST by
C19fan
To: C19fan
I always think of boob jobs when I hear “Silicon Valley”.
2 posted on
03/06/2015 6:00:27 AM PST by
yldstrk
To: C19fan
Yeah? More like, "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" by Harlan Ellison.
3 posted on
03/06/2015 6:02:29 AM PST by
GOPJ
(Comrade Thug - please don't hurt me for disagreeing... I lived in a free country once..)
To: C19fan
I don't know that we, the living, owe anything to the yet-unconceived. If I could live forever, I would definitely want to consider it.
I think one of the biggest challenges would be to decide when enough was enough and it was time to pull the plug. Because I'm convinced that that day would come eventually to everyone. Life might not prove so exciting when you have unlimited time to do everything. It's its very finite-ness that makes every second valuable.
4 posted on
03/06/2015 6:04:24 AM PST by
IronJack
To: C19fan
I’m thinking more like the Cylons of (re-imagined) Battlestar Galactica.
To: C19fan
6 posted on
03/06/2015 6:13:24 AM PST by
cuban leaf
(The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
To: C19fan
About ten years ago, I thought that a medical extension of human lifespans to 500 or 1,000 years would be not only possible, but maybe even inevitable......
Imagine how evil the world would become if your "favorite" dictator was able to live that long........
7 posted on
03/06/2015 6:18:35 AM PST by
fishtank
(The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
To: C19fan
I don’t think social security will sustain my immortality.....
10 posted on
03/06/2015 6:36:19 AM PST by
Hot Tabasco
(Uncle Sy: "Beavers are like Ninjas, they only come out at night and they're hard to find")
To: C19fan
That’s only an issue if the technology is available to everything. As long as it is extremely expensive and only the very wealthy can afford it, it’s not an issue.
12 posted on
03/06/2015 6:56:37 AM PST by
TexasFreeper2009
(Obama lied .. the economy died.)
To: C19fan
Get up early, work at an office job, go home, eat, go to bed, repeat...forever?
No thanks, I’d rather go see Jesus.
17 posted on
03/06/2015 7:36:06 AM PST by
Hazwaste
(Democrats are like slinkies. Only good for pushing down stairs.)
To: C19fan
I hope that my mortality providing software isn’t Window-based. I’d hate to have to be re-booted a couple of times a day.
19 posted on
03/06/2015 9:21:32 AM PST by
CommerceComet
(Ignore the GOP-e. Cruz to victory in 2016.)
To: C19fan
Eventually, we will be usurped.
24 posted on
03/06/2015 11:32:39 AM PST by
Ghost of SVR4
(So many are so hopelessly dependent on the government that they will fight to protect it.)
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