re: The search for the fountain of youth

Posted on 8/23/14 at 8:51 pm to gorillacoco

Posted by UL-SabanRival

Member since May 2013

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Posted on 8/23/14 at 8:51 pm to gorillacoco

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Yawn. As the world gets dragged into the 21st century, it's seen time and time again that birth rates plummet as quality of life improves.

Just like that, h? Anyway, it doesn't matter what the birth rates were if no one is dying.

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The big worry for me would be that a single dictator would eventually control the entire world like a Stalin or a Ghengis Khan.

Oh, so you're a dumbass then? No problem. Shine on, you crazy dumbass.

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Posted by mailman

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Posted on 8/23/14 at 9:07 pm to UL-SabanRival

Two things will happen, women won't carry children in the womb and we leave the womb(earth)

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If the human species, or indeed any part of the biosphere, is to continue to survive, it must eventually leave the Earth and colonize space. For the simple fact of the matter is, the planet Earth is doomed... Let us follow many environmentalists and regard the Earth as Gaia, the mother of all life (which indeed she is). Gaia, like all mothers, is not immortal. She is going to die. But her line of descent might be immortal. . . . Gaia's children might never die out--provided they move into space. The Earth should be regarded as the womb of life—but one cannot remain in the womb forever.

— Frank J. Tipler, The Physics of Immortality: Modern Cosmology, God and the Resurrection of the Dead, 1994

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Posted by gorillacoco

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Posted on 8/23/14 at 11:44 pm to UL-SabanRival

Oh I missed the part where the fountain of youth concept somehow got transcribed to everyone is immortal. You're right then.

Democracy isn't historically a super popular form of government. If someone like Ghengis Khan or Stalin was able to extend their lives, there is a good chance that they'd keep that power for a really, really long time.