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To: RightWhale
. . . hard to imagine spending the next few trillion years with these same 6 billion people even if we can remain roughly 20 years old.

Ewwwww . . . Just think, you could live 500 years or so with each of them, a whole lot longer with some since we probably couldn't tolerate being around more than one in a thousand of 'em that long. But you'd definitely have enough time to get to know everybody. I wonder if our brains would be able to keep track of all of them, even if we had spent a century around them?

Unfortunately, we won't be truly "immortal" in the future, imho. We just won't age or die of age related diseases. But a whole lot of other disastrous things will still be able to bump us off. That's the kind of immortality I'm hoping for . . . Just an extra thousand years or so before that bolt of lightning. Humans have way too much potential to only be given a measly 70 years.

35 posted on 06/17/2002 9:08:56 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: LibWhacker
Yeah, I didn't want to get too graphic. It would be entirely possible to get to know EVERYBODY real well.

Maybe in a million or a billion years my neighbor would learn some other rhythms on his drumkit. Could happen.

36 posted on 06/17/2002 9:17:18 PM PDT by RightWhale
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