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re: If you were truly immortal, how would you pass the time?
Posted on 3/23/15 at 9:29 am to PPL
Posted on 3/23/15 at 9:29 am to PPL
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Or you could just go to your reserve. It sounds like you might be better served getting into BASE.
Base jumping is really cool, the close proximity to cliffs and large objects as you go down seems like a rush. The chute really is just to experience more air time and enjoy it. Really unnecessary, I could just jump with nothing. I'm really not concerned whatsoever with death so doesn't matter.
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Posted on 3/23/15 at 9:34 am to Methuselah
it would suck if you got convicted of a crime and were sentenced to life without parole, just sayin'
Posted on 3/23/15 at 9:39 am to PPL
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I'd insult every living creature in the universe. And this is the part I'm really gritting my teeth over: I'd do it in alphabetical order.
You'd have to change your name to Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged then. That Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy character was one of the inspirations for this thread (though not the main one - that was mostly wondering what the heck someone would do with all that time). About the questions regarding other powers - I thought about that. Heck, I'd like to do it with time travel - you could check out the great battles or even the rise and fall of empires and such in real time or time hop to each line of your ancestors to see what life was like for them. But I decided that was maybe a subject for another thread so I decided to go with straightforward "live forever". But if anyone wants to throw a superpower or two in with their answer, that's fine with me.
Posted on 3/23/15 at 9:46 am to Methuselah
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You'd have to change your name to Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged then.
Glad at least one person here is well read.
Posted on 3/23/15 at 3:37 pm to PPL
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Glad at least one person here is well read.
One of my favorite series of books.
Posted on 3/23/15 at 3:42 pm to Methuselah
If I started being immortal in the Middle Ages - I'd be set for life right now.
Woulda done things like go on Crusades, travel the spice roads... Get things from faraway places and set up my own little trade empire. When science became a thing - Would've started getting involved in that.
Endgame: Use my wealth to screen for the brightest minds to put through school and eventually work in R and D... Then sell technology to military, healthcare, etc... to perpetuate my own little self-sustaining system. Invest in more things like gold, diamonds, antiques (the more ancient, the better) artwork, etc... to decorate all my residences around the world.
Would also make sure to find a way to scramble film/digital cameras so I wouldn't show up in pictures decades apart.
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If I haven't learned at least 20 languages in that time - I'd be surprised.
Woulda done things like go on Crusades, travel the spice roads... Get things from faraway places and set up my own little trade empire. When science became a thing - Would've started getting involved in that.
Endgame: Use my wealth to screen for the brightest minds to put through school and eventually work in R and D... Then sell technology to military, healthcare, etc... to perpetuate my own little self-sustaining system. Invest in more things like gold, diamonds, antiques (the more ancient, the better) artwork, etc... to decorate all my residences around the world.
Would also make sure to find a way to scramble film/digital cameras so I wouldn't show up in pictures decades apart.
ETA:
If I haven't learned at least 20 languages in that time - I'd be surprised.
This post was edited on 3/23/15 at 3:45 pm
Posted on 3/23/15 at 3:43 pm to Methuselah
I would travel around the world immersing myself in the culture of different places for decades at a time.
Posted on 3/23/15 at 3:52 pm to Hold my beer
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2 chicks at the same time
can't believe it took the 3rd page for someone to make this joke
Posted on 3/23/15 at 3:58 pm to yurintroubl
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If I started being immortal in the Middle Ages - I'd be set for life right now.
Woulda done things like go on Crusades, travel the spice roads... Get things from faraway places and set up my own little trade empire. When science became a thing - Would've started getting involved in that.
Endgame: Use my wealth to screen for the brightest minds to put through school and eventually work in R and D... Then sell technology to military, healthcare, etc... to perpetuate my own little self-sustaining system. Invest in more things like gold, diamonds, antiques (the more ancient, the better) artwork, etc... to decorate all my residences around the world.
Would also make sure to find a way to scramble film/digital cameras so I wouldn't show up in pictures decades apart.
ETA:
If I haven't learned at least 20 languages in that time - I'd be surprised.
I think that would be a dangerous path. You'd need to live without calling attention to yourself-there's this uber wealthy person who's been alive for as long as anyone can remember, and never seems to age-somebody would get suspicious, and that leads to trouble. Even if they couldn't kill you, they could arrest you and "study" you, or just keep you in confinement because they think you're dangerous. I think the only way you could get away with it is live a normal lifespan as a relatively anonymous person, then drop out of sight and assume a new identity somewhere else.
There have been any number of sci fi plots about this
Posted on 3/23/15 at 4:02 pm to Jim Rockford
Nah.... by the time we are here in the modern era - I have my system funneling my money into offshore accounts and they don't even realize Johnson and Johnson, Merck, BASF and such are just my ginormous shell corporations.
I never stay at one residence more than a few years at a time... and make sure at least 50 years passes between stays.
I got this.
I never stay at one residence more than a few years at a time... and make sure at least 50 years passes between stays.
I got this.
Posted on 3/23/15 at 4:22 pm to PPL
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I'd insult every living creature in the universe. And this is the part I'm really gritting my teeth over: I'd do it in alphabetical order.
Would you play cricket? The most despicable game in the universe?
This post was edited on 3/23/15 at 4:24 pm
Posted on 3/23/15 at 4:25 pm to Breesus
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Would you play cricket? The most despicable game in the universe?
Only if the beverage machine is malfunctioning (making your own tea is the worst).
Too obscure?
Posted on 3/23/15 at 4:31 pm to yurintroubl
I'd be mars rover version 4.0. Then I would send fake data back to earth.
Posted on 3/23/15 at 7:02 pm to Sparkplug#1
I guess the first thing to do would be to invest in some long term high yield investments.
I think at some point I'd undertake a walking tour of pretty much the entire world or at least as much of it as it is practical to get to. And to read pretty much everything there is to read that is even a little interesting.
Although I guess if someone was scientifically inclined one could do things like document generations of descendants of either certain people or animals to see what changes do occur over long terms.
I think at some point I'd undertake a walking tour of pretty much the entire world or at least as much of it as it is practical to get to. And to read pretty much everything there is to read that is even a little interesting.
Although I guess if someone was scientifically inclined one could do things like document generations of descendants of either certain people or animals to see what changes do occur over long terms.
Posted on 3/23/15 at 7:05 pm to Methuselah
Find others like me and systematically chop off their heads!!
"THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE!!"
"THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE!!"
Posted on 3/23/15 at 7:07 pm to Methuselah
I got this.............. be the astronaut that doesnt need a space suit. ole neal would be clumsily jumping around and I'd be jumping over him in flip flops and jorts.
Posted on 3/23/15 at 7:27 pm to Methuselah
Spend my time telling women that if they slept with me they would become immortal too.
Posted on 3/23/15 at 7:29 pm to PPL
quote:Vastly underrated post. Needs about 42 upvotes.
I'd insult every living creature in the universe. And this is the part I'm really gritting my teeth over: I'd do it in alphabetical order.
Posted on 3/23/15 at 7:30 pm to Jim Rockford
I would still go for something along these lines as well, but it would be harder if it started today. Being invincible/immortal means I could partake in high risk high payout operations like drug cartels without worry and with secrecy being of the utmost importance in that sort of buisiness I could stay relatively obscure. The biggest issue would be creating multiple prominent false identities to interact with the mainstream world. After I have that worked out I could use the money I gather to fund research projects for space flight and hopefully speed up the development of a hyperdrive so I don't have to wait so long for one to develop. Once we accomplish that, explore the universe and other alien civilizations and start working on becoming an interdimensional being.
Posted on 3/24/15 at 7:38 am to yurintroubl
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Only if the beverage machine is malfunctioning (making your own tea is the worst).
Too obscure?
"Share and enjoy!"
If any of you guys that are fans of the Hitchhiker books haven't also read the Dirk Gently books, I recommend you do so immediately. I love them just as much as I do Guide series.
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