Zkribbler
Deity
I'd imagine it will be the same for humans as we solve the dna decay of aging but other forms of mortality will continue
Immorality is a curse unless it is coupled with eternal youth.
I'd imagine it will be the same for humans as we solve the dna decay of aging but other forms of mortality will continue
Immorality is a curse unless it is coupled with eternal youth.
I never saw this movie. Maybe I should remedy that.When I was 12 years old, this was pretty awesome. Now, I still feel a connection to it, but it's tenuous at best. How about when I'm 12,000 years old? Of course, I wouldn't give a **** about it. But more importantly, would I give a **** about all of the cultural and biological things that made this nonsense sensible to a 12 year old Ephemeral? Of course not.
Ephemeral: Doesn't last forever. Temporary (even though "temporary" might be a long time by our current standards; a star that lives for billions of years is still ephemeral).Your Lexicon is unfamiliar to me. What do you mean by ephemeral? What do you mean by an immortal?
There's a Doctor Who story in which a young teenage girl becomes immortal. The Doctor meets her in medieval Scandinavia, makes her immortal to save her life, and when they meet up millennia later (from her point of view), she's still young, still in no danger of dying, but what the Doctor didn't realize is that the human brain only has so much memory capability. Ashildr (her original name) has lived so long that she's even forgotten her own name. She keeps notebooks of the major events in her life, but decides it's pointless to try to remember most things because she'll just forget in a few centuries. So she changes her name to Me. As time goes on for her, she and the Doctor meet one last time, at the end of the universe.At last we're in agreement. Immortality would be Hell on Earth, as far as I'm concerned.
There's also the question of what to do if someone who's lived 500+ years (or arbitrary time amount) wants to stop living. We actually don't know how people would tend to feel after centuries, so that'd be a bridge to cross if we're ever advanced enough for it to matter.
Are you implying that there are different sorts of immortality? 'They' aren't the same? Huh?
They've managed to survive for around 500 million years? Lol.
Again, you're seeming to indicate that there are two different types of immortality. Since you're the proponent of this radical new theory, could you flesh it out and explain it more?
At last we're in agreement. Immortality would be Hell on Earth, as far as I'm concerned.
Lol. The topic has been discussed since primates fell out of the trees, stood upright, looked up and noticed the sky.![]()
According to this
https://www.livescience.com/55392-do-lobsters-live-forever.html
lobsters aren't biologically immortal.
Some simpler species (like this clam) apparently can live for at least 500 years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctica_islandica
while a few types of turtle live for upwards of 200 years. Probably has to do with slowness being a core trait of their existence, though.
Relax if they can cure aging they can cure grumpy-old-manism.
Life kinda sucks alot of the time but it beats the alternative of NOTHING-EVER-AGAIN-FOREVER.
They are, according to current research. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_immortality How long someone actually lives is irrelevant to biological immortality.
Honestly this is one of the most interesting posts I've read all year. Lobster are fascinating (and so are you, Lex).
Yep, I found it funny that that article Kyriakos posted made no mention of telomerase. Lobsters basically don't experience senescence BUT they have to shed their skins and grow new ones periodically, and eventually the energy cost of this becomes so great that they die by exhaustion during a moulting, or they fail to moult and are basically suffocated inside their shells (or the shell becomes infected and they die that way).
Kind of nightmare fuel tbh. IMO it's certain that lobsters made some kind of deal with the devil at some point: immortality....with a catch.
There are people that can remember every day of their life.
60 or so found so far: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/feb/08/total-recall-the-people-who-never-forget
There are things I used to be excited about that no longer excite me. For instance, Star Trek. When I go to TrekBBS, I rarely talk about Star Trek anymore, unless it's a favorite topic or character or some argument comes up that I'm invested in. People are soooo excited by DiscoTrek, and what a "novel" thing it was to give Spock an adopted human sister. Well, sorry, folks, it doesn't make me do anything but yawn. Fanfic writers gave Spock an adopted human sister 50 years ago, in several different series of stories. Been there, done that, I'll read the fanfic versions, thank you. They're more true to TOS than this poorly-written, badly-acted mess on TV.Just as a sort of preface, consider this:
We all know the effects of aging, grey hair, forgetfulness, physical ability, cancer, cells decaying and so on. This is what I call physical ageing.
But there is another form of ageing few people pay attention to. Do you sometimes get this feeling of tiredness when you've seen something "novel" recycled over and over? Do you sometimes look at the innocence and the sort of wonder that children perceive the world with? This is something that fades with age. It's different for everyone, sure, and no human being completely loses his or her curiosity. But at some point, especially with the internet, you will reach a stage where you've seen almost anything (not in a literal sense, new stuff happens all the time). Ideas build on previous ideas that build on previous ideas. At some point many activities feel like a farce. Even me being very young still I grew weary of watching TV, I just cannot do it anymore, it's a tedium. The internet has desenticized me completely. Spend a few hours on r/earthporn and you will never want to look at another picture of beautiful nature ever again. It's not even important whether you've actually observed the phenomenon before, but you definitely feel like "I've seen this before". This process I am describing is kind of similiar to ageing, except it happens almost entirely seperate from the actual ageing process. You could call it weariness, but really it feels more like a spell fading off. As things reveal themselves to you, as you grasp the underlying mechanisms of life, death and human interaction, your view of the world changes. Permanently. Irreversibly.
They are also delicious. Clearly the ones that end up on dinner plates aren't immortal.Lobster are fascinating