• cayde6ml
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    2 years ago

    I want to live for billions and billions, if not trillions of years, surf the galaxy in a badass spaceship in a fully-automated luxury bisexual space communism future after preventable death has been more or less “cured” after socialist technological advancement, bang sexy consenting sapient aliens ala Mass Effect, and be able to up close (relatively speaking) observe black holes, beautiful nebulas, scorching stars, wonderous galactic filaments, and grasp at cosmic strings, all after capitalism has been defeated.

    That being said, stopping and smelling extrasolar roses sounds nice, too.

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      2 years ago

      huh… i’ve been ready to die since i was a kid… i won’t fight it too much beyond that instinctual fear

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        2 years ago

        That is one possible avenue of many. I think immortality will be granted through a wide variety of possible methods and inventions and breakthroughs. Ray Kurzweil, a brilliant scientist decades ahead of his time and who is correct over 80 percent of the time in his +100 predictions, strongly suspects that humanity will likely “cure” preventable death sometime before the end of this century.

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            2 years ago

            I know! I’m glad that aging and death is being viewed as more of an affliction than something that is natural or inevitable, I hope that in a socialist society or on the pathway, aging could one day be permanently stalled or ended, and I think it’s wonderful that scientists look into axolotls and salamanders and jellyfish for life extension methods.

            Same, I think it’s really shitty that up until now, life only lasts a few decades. I want to live for so long, that iron stars themselves begin to fizzle out.

            I feel the same about Komodo Dragons.

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                2 years ago

                That’s why I’m going to try my best to stay alive and not do any stupid or dangerous shit, until the future treatments/methods for life extension become widely available and affordable. And in a socialist society, I can see the benefits fucking soaring, what with the total transformation of society.

                You probably don’t need me to tell you this, but crocodiles and komodos aren’t Dinosaurs. They are definitely related, but birds are/were Dinosaurs