We'll be immortal within 20 years

[masta247]

Sure the title sucks like always but according to this guy it's sort of real. And it seems that he's good with guessing the future. Read on:

Immortality only 20 years away says scientist - Telegraph

 

[Euphanasia]

hmm i'm not convinced about that....at least not as soon as he predicts.

 

[S O F I]

The thought of Casey Rain living forever creeps me...CREEPS ME THE FUCK OUT MAAN!

 

[masta247]

The thought of Casey Rain living forever creeps me...CREEPS ME THE FUCK OUT MAAN!

while creating that thread I indeed had cryogenically frozen Casey in my mind

 

[Snowman]

yeah i can believe that, with our technology today anything is possible.

good article

 

[Jokerman]

No. We'll all be dead in 20 years. So I guess, yeah, that is a kind of immortality. He is right! Die and live forever.

 

[Little Skittle]

A ton of far-fetched claims with no scientific backing? Wonderful article.

 

[masta247]

A ton of far-fetched claims with no scientific backing? Wonderful article.

What more of a scientific backing can you have if you're predicting future?
It comes from a 61-year old respected scientist so it's as scientific as it gets.

 

[Stred]

What happens to wrinkly old skin though?

 

[yak pac fatal]

2012...

 

[Stred]

^ yeah whats the story behind 2012? A friend of mine always goes on about it.

 

[Casey]

I will live forever through my art, like MJ.

 

[Jokerman]

^ yeah whats the story behind 2012?

The usual. Nonsense and superstition.

 

[Bobby Sands]

2012 is when 2pack returns.

 

[Bobby Sands]

Richard Dawkin's reckons we'll be extinct in a few million years or so but if any species can protect themselves from extinction it is humans, so there is hope yet.

 

[masta247]

The odds are that almost definitely there are more intelligent/older lifeforms in the universe so human kind may be too slow/stupid to protect ourselves while some other species far away might survive longer. We may die out and another kind far away might not be even aware of our existence.

 

[Glockmatic]

In 5 billion years the Andromeda galaxy will collide with the Milky Way galaxy and our solar system will be destroyed. Before that our sun may become a red dwarf and our planet will be eaten up. Take THAT immortals!

 

[Preach]

In 5 billion years the Andromeda galaxy will collide with the Milky Way galaxy and our solar system will be destroyed. Before that our sun may become a red dwarf and our planet will be eaten up. Take THAT immortals!

nanotechnology will enable me to break myself into molecules that the heat cannot destroy, and then reassemble myself when i find a proper planet with an atmosphere.

yeah i can believe that, with our technology today anything is possible.

good article

I'm amused by such sentients. The notion that technology will keep getting progressively more complex into infinity seems flawed to me. It seems much more likely that we hit a threshold after which it won't make any difference if you have 6 or 7 billion gigahertz on your processor cause it'll be so fucking good it makes no difference anyway. Not to mention, things keep getting smaller, but a cellphone can't be the size of a finger nail so there are certain physical limitations. Both because it would be inoperable, and because even though microchips are totally awesome, they too have physical limitations.

 

[Flipmo]

By the time galaxies collide humanity will have spread across galaxies cause no way earth would be able to sustain our ever growing number and consumption, especially if we are anything like we are now.

As for immortality, it doesn't interest me.

 

[masta247]

It seems much more likely that we hit a threshold after which it won't make any difference if you have 6 or 7 billion gigahertz on your processor cause it'll be so fucking good it makes no difference anyway. Not to mention, things keep getting smaller, but a cellphone can't be the size of a finger nail so there are certain physical limitations. Both because it would be inoperable, and because even though microchips are totally awesome, they too have physical limitations.

Technically there's no point in creating processors that are faster than ~3ghz.
A pentium 4 processor released 5-6 years ago had 3,8ghz. These days most mainstream processors are between 2 and 2.8ghz and are at least 5 times faster and more efficient.
I wonder if we'll ever hit a level at which we'll start going backwards if you know what I mean.
That we will reach a level that will be hard to keep on for a longer time. It would be interesting.

Bare in mind that human brain has evolved so much that most awesome discoveries were made over the last 2000 years and think about the fact that the majority of the most awesome ones were made during the last 100 years. 30-few years ago the idea of a personal computer was found. Development of new technologies is going faster and faster.
I don't even have any idea what will our world look like within 20 years but I bet it'll be totally different. Predicting 2100 is crazy, then how can we predict what will happen in 5 billion years?
However the odds are that earth will be destroyed by a huge asteroid way earlier and the most sad thing is that it can happen basically at any time, any second and there would most probably be no warnings before unless that object would be really big and slow.
Actually it's almost unbelievable that we're still alive since the likelihood of our planet being destroyed by it is really high.