Do You Want to Live Forever? 1334
Jamie McCarthy writes "In 1918, Gunnery Sergeant Daniel Daly inspired his weary men to attack by yelling, 'come on, you sons of bitches, do you want to live forever?' But how would the world change if we could? This month's Technology Review introduces us to the computer scientist, and self-taught biologist, Aubrey de Grey, who thinks immortality could be within our grasp by 2030. Thinking like an engineer, he's broken aging down into seven specific problems, like cell atrophy and mitochondrial mutation, which he believes can all, in principle, be solved. And he has good reason to think those seven are the only 'bugs' standing in the way of a thousand-year lifespan. De Grey is clearly both a genius and a little nuts, but I'm not sure in what proportion..."
Doom for Social Security (Score:4, Funny)
Hmm... (Score:1, Funny)
Those are the kind of people we count on now days! But honestly...I'm sure there are many people who might be better off not living forever. I won't mention any names or anything...
Things To Look Forward (Score:5, Funny)
3D High Def THX Surround Sound home entertainment (some brain surgery required)
The 100th season of the Simpsons
200 more years of Dick Clark in Times Square
Windows Cthulhu (C'mon, you know it was coming some day...)
Baseball players finally agree to seriously address the steroid issue after a homerun ball is driven through the skull of a guy two miles away from the stadium.
No matter how well you cared for your teeth, you'll eventually lose them.
Watching every public retirement system go into the stock market and then watch it really tank! (Alpo! Yum!)
Liver Spot removal pill spam
Survivor Krakatoa
Final Fantasy LXXVI: The ploy that isn't beaten to death, yet.
After about 20 presidents claiming to reduce spending you realize they're full of shit as the world runs out of money to finance the US debt. And those guys who said, "The debt doesn't matter", they died, so it didn't matter to them.
More Spam (Score:5, Funny)
AND...we'll be getting them much longer. Jeez!
Re:Doom for Social Security (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Doom for Social Security (Score:2, Funny)
This is one reason that SS is fundamentally flawed.
Failing to take into account that people live forever and could collect SS in perpetuity is hardly "fundamentally flawed"
Man that's a long time to be a virgin (Score:5, Funny)
Let me guess ... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Things To Look Forward (Score:3, Funny)
Duke Nukem Forever. Coming this millenium.
We think.
Re:Things To Look Forward (Score:5, Funny)
we can all live long enough so that a 6-digit /. id's will become "rare and wise" when there are 10 million /. members. :)
Re:Things To Look Forward (Score:2, Funny)
And he still won't look a day over 20!
Re:Doom for Social Security (Score:3, Funny)
Not necessarily. You could still end up decrepit and arthritis-ridden, barely able to care for yourself, and just live that way for the next several hundred years.
Re:Things To Look Forward (Score:0, Funny)
But we WANT to be out of it... (Score:5, Funny)
Ok, aside from the fact... (Score:2, Funny)
Like the guy who came in to fix my copier last week wearing a--I kid you not--Utilikilt. [utilikilt.com]
Yes, I know I'm being shallow. However, I do tend to wonder about people who cultivate their hygiene in an apparent attempt to LOOK LIKE RASPUTIN.
Slightly OT, I suppose.
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So close... (Score:2, Funny)
One good thing about it... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Things To Look Forward (Score:3, Funny)
Hurd, still not ready.
*BSD, still dying.
Re:Doom for Social Security (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Doom for Social Security (Score:5, Funny)
Oh.
Yay.
Re:Things To Look Forward (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Doom for Social Security (Score:1, Funny)
Btw I'd like to point out that the reason most people need social security is because the most productive years of their lives are behind them and they need it because they have no more earning power. If you were "immortal" you could just keep working and wouldn't need SS.
Oh no, I can see it now: "Successful applicants will have at least 900 years of experience with all of the following technologies: C#, Oracle, ASP.NET, Rational Rose, ..."
Florida... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Worse than that (Score:4, Funny)
Job Requirements:
Entry Level Application Developer 150 Years experience Minimum! Please access this 3000 page form for required language experience. Please fill it out and hand it in by next week. No late applications will be accecpted. Must have at least 10 PHDs
Re:We are tricked into working so much (Score:1, Funny)
XMAS will be a bitch with 40000 relatives (Score:3, Funny)