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TitaniumAlloy
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posted May 18, 2006 02:07 PM |
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Immortality
Being by no means able to die would suck. Majorly.
I don't know why anyone in their right mind would possibly consider this as a benefit.
Apart from the obvious disads everyone you know and love will grow old and die, but that's in the short term. (well, for someone who lives forever, you could argue that everything is in the short term)
In the long term, just the thought of it is almost unbearable. Imagine the human race dies out within a few centuries, millenia, whatever, doesn't matter, leaving you on a deserted planet all by yourself. But, if the human race does get wiped out, it means that the planet is no longer habitable, possibly very very cold from nuclear winter or comet hitting the earth, which you would have to endure the pain of, but not be able to die from.
Or, if for some reason the whole world is blown up. Or you're no longer on it for some reason. Everyone would die in space due to lack of oxygen, food, and, well, anything. But not you. You would keep floating forever, and ever, and ever. And ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever.
Just sitting there.
Or perhaps you have velocity, meaning that some time you will make contact with something. But not for a long, long, long, long, long, long time. Perhaps 100 billion years. At the least. You wouldn't be able to lie down comfortably, without gravity, so it would be like the longest, most boring, most uncomfortable car trip you've ever taken, times a trillion. Not to mention the lack of oxygen and food, which you again would suffer the pain from but not have the mercy of death. You would be eternally bored, cold, starving, out of breath, and uncomfortable.
A scary thought.
The immortal character in "The Restaurant At The End Of The World" once said something to his computer like: "Computer, are there any movies in the nearest star systems for rent that I haven't seen over 30,000 times?"
daym.
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sick_46_boy
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posted May 18, 2006 02:59 PM |
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 Maybee in theat floating will hapen something nice,like u find cute girl frome nearest galactical sistem(andromeda) or farest and she sey to u"hreg fgrtzs hjtwe!! Jrwetr uhassaez,dhafuw ojlčaue fjkashd hj,hwe azuhds." coz u dont undersand she,u blow her away before even u touch her coz u think she may be deangerus for u becouze u are in the space for so long time and your brain dont work well!! How time passing u gething so bored and bored,one day u land on some planet and on theat planet u find some peaces of buildings.U are bored and for fun u start to scratching around,in some dusty demolition house u find a picture and on theat picture is girl who u blow up.Beyond picture ther was some mashine wich still work and theat machine was multi galactikal translation machine.Then u start up machine and lisening a message left on"For all creatures in the space and for all living been hear my voice,the one time ago two planets start the war and bouth side was destroyed only one from gril is stay alive from this planet and she was seant in the space before this happend,if u find her take her for your tim mate and maried with her so u can gained new civilization,by the way she dont hawe milk ih her cheast she hawe beer!!"After u heard theat u get hit by the heart atack!!And theat is the way how life die in this side of space!!!
 Btw nice story titanium And if theat happens to me I will bee happy coz I like to travel!!
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NavonDuSandau
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posted May 18, 2006 02:59 PM |
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Well if you are bored there's always:
[URL]http://heroescommunity.com/viewthread.php3?TID=13831[/URL]
and HoMM.
Isn't that what "Heroes forever!" is all about?
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TitaniumAlloy
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posted May 18, 2006 03:14 PM |
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Beer honkhonks 
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friendofgunnar
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posted May 18, 2006 05:00 PM |
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Wow TA you convinced me.
I used to think immortality would be cool.
But now I realize that drifting through space for an eternity with no amenities like cold beer and whatnot would not be very fun at all. Not to mention all the other amenities (ahem)...
How about a compromise though: immortality except for getting fried in a high temperature. That way you have 5 billions years to kick around before the sun explodes. I think I could go for that.
Here's a question for you: would you choose the 5 billion year option if the first 1000 years of said immortality was spent in a headache?
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posted May 18, 2006 05:36 PM |
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How about a compromise though: immortality except for getting fried in a high temperature. That way you have 5 billions years to kick around before the sun explodes. I think I could go for that.
Not a bad idea, however you'll have to babysit the mankind to prevent them from dying out until your time expires. If that happens you'll end up trying to set yourself on fire for 5 billion years. 
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Here's a question for you: would you choose the 5 billion year option if the first 1000 years of said immortality was spent in a headache?
More details on that, please! How bad would the headache be?
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friendofgunnar
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posted May 18, 2006 05:44 PM |
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More details on that, please! How bad would the headache be?
The headache would be about as bad as the first 5 seconds of a "cold" headache when it's not yet super bad but you know it's coming and you are doomed.
(re: cold headache....you know when you drink something that's really cold really fast. Some people don't get these)
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russ
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posted May 18, 2006 06:06 PM |
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The headache would be about as bad as the first 5 seconds of a "cold" headache when it's not yet super bad but you know it's coming and you are doomed.
But if I use drugs or get really drunk to feel anything, will the headache disappear? (I am assuming drinking heavily and using drugs won't have any negative effect on me since I'll be immortal, so I can use all I want  ) Also, come to think of it, I'll never get sick, so I'll never have to use the condoms again!!!
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friendofgunnar
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posted May 18, 2006 07:58 PM |
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Also, come to think of it, I'll never get sick, so I'll never have to use the condoms again!!!
hey that's worth the price of gas right there.
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posted May 18, 2006 08:02 PM |
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Also, come to think of it, I'll never get sick, so I'll never have to use the condoms again!!!
Sure, you won't die of AIDS, but you can still get a nasty rash from other sexually transmitted diseases, no?
As for "cold headache", I'm not sure but I think it is commonly refered to as brainfreeze.
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russ
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posted May 18, 2006 08:21 PM |
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Sure, you won't die of AIDS, but you can still get a nasty rash from other sexually transmitted diseases, no?
Hmm... many of those and other diseases are incurable. Are you saying that I'll have to live for 5 billion years with EVERY disease??? (I am assuming that I'll get all of them eventually.) Well, f*** this immortality then!
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Lord_Woock
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posted May 18, 2006 08:24 PM |
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Well, viral diseases wouldn't be a problem if not for the fact that temperature still kills you. HIV, for example, is destroyed at 60C or so. The problem is that this temperature is lethal for humans.
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posted May 18, 2006 09:03 PM |
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Well, viral diseases wouldn't be a problem if not for the fact that temperature still kills you. HIV, for example, is destroyed at 60C or so. The problem is that this temperature is lethal for humans.
So, essentially, all I'll need to do would be swimming in the molten steel Terminator-style. But what will happen to me after that? I'll evaporate, yet I won't die?
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posted May 18, 2006 09:07 PM |
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But what will happen to me after that? I'll evaporate, yet I won't die?
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posted May 19, 2006 12:20 AM |
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But if I use drugs or get really drunk to feel anything, will the headache disappear? (I am assuming drinking heavily and using drugs won't have any negative effect on me since I'll be immortal, so I can use all I want ) Also, come to think of it, I'll never get sick, so I'll never have to use the condoms again!!!
Yap,russ u are rigiht,butt wath will hapen when drougs and all those nice beer disappear?U will beg god to die butt u will not die.And abouth condoms hmm I think coz u are immortal u dont need it,u need to fu.. whitouth them and extend your branc and our space will hawe more litle immortal russis. What u think russ?
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posted May 19, 2006 09:12 AM |
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Immortality should only work for the right people. Germany wouldn't be a good place to live if Hitler were immortal.
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posted May 19, 2006 09:18 AM |
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what would imortality be really???
does that mean you could drink alcohol till your blood achohol limit is 10%???
or you could stab yourself in the heart and still live
if it does imortallity could do alot to help the human race. you could be the testing rat for everything. with you around humans could advance very quickly
i dont think it would be that bad
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TitaniumAlloy
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posted May 19, 2006 12:18 PM |
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Testing rat wouldn't work, because how would they know if it didn't work, or if it was fatal?
They give you some pill, you're fine, and they say oh it's all good and it turns out it kills everyone else.
But yeah, it would be fine if you were the one testing, not being the tested.
You could never get into a relationship, and if you were ugly, you would be pretty lonely forever.
Think about it.
It would suck.
One good thing would be you could have investments in the bank which could last a thousand years and become a bijillionaire
Also, you wouldn't evaporate, because that would cause death. You don't have anything that would cause death. You would just feel very very sunburnt 
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Lord_Pc
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posted May 19, 2006 12:40 PM |
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One good thing would be you could have investments in the bank which could last a thousand years and become a bijillionaire
someone watches futurama too much
as for the testing, more testing to do with experiments with stuff that doesnt kill you. not testing suicide pills and the like. testing vacines
or you could always spend a few hundred years trying to outsmart hawking
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sick_46_boy
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posted May 19, 2006 12:40 PM |
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One good thing would be you could have investments in the bank which could last a thousand years and become a bijillionaire
This seems quite good butt what u will do with money when u dont need it,if u wont something u just take it and no one can do u anything am I rigiht? Imagina theat u may drink beer forewer!!
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