To Live Forever...

[Potato]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...n_s_immortality

It's a blink of an eye in history, but long enough for the 56-year-old Kurzweil to pay close heed to his fitness. He urges others to do the same in "Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever."

The book is partly a health guide so people can live to benefit from a coming explosion in technology he predicts will make infinite life spans possible.

Kurzweil writes of millions of blood cell-sized robots, which he calls "nanobots," that will keep us forever young by swarming through the body, repairing bones, muscles, arteries and brain cells. Improvements to our genetic coding will be downloaded via the Internet. We won't even need a heart.

[DudeAsInCool]

Pretty fascinating stuff - do you believe it's possible?

[Redneck4sure]

do you believe it's possible?

I've almost accomplished it.

[Ken]

The technology itself may be possible, but the implementation will be impossible for the overwhelming majority of the population.

Besides, we can't have a lot of people living for extended periods of time (even twice their normal expectancy). There just isn't enough room/materials on Earth to sustain that.

I don't want to live forever.

[slum_goddess]

i love him, have since i read one of his books in 1996. check here for details.

[KiwiCoromandel]

Pretty fascinating stuff - do you believe it's possible?

depends what you want to call " living ".....no doubt some form of life extension process is possible and like a lot of elitists/scientists, the gentleman in question is actually afraid of death, as are most normal humans.......and would like to extend his life process by any means possible...listen to this shit.......

" Improvements to our genetic coding will be downloaded via the Internet. We won't even need a heart. "

...downloading body parts via the internet and not actually having a beating heart is not what i would call " living "..even if technically you could call such an obscene scenario life......no doubt the rich and the powerful (who know as we all know that you can`t take it with you) will drive the market for this sort of thing...but as ken says..." i don`t want to live forever "....who in his right mind would??

Who wants to live forever.....

There's no time for us,

There's no place for us,

What is this thing that builds our dreams,

Yet slips away from us.

Who wants to live forever,

Who wants to live forever, .....?

There's no chance for us,

It's all decided for us,

This world has only one sweet moment

Set aside for us.

Who wants to live forever,

Who wants to live forever, .....?

Now touch my tears with your lips,

Touch my world with your fingertips,

And we can have forever,

And we can love forever,

Forever is our today.

Who wants to live forever,

Who wants to live forever, .....?

Who waits forever anyway?

[slum_goddess]

Who wants to live forever, .....?

if you throw in some super-powers, you've got a deal. :)

[DudeAsInCool]

if you throw in some super-powers, you've got a deal. :)

Hey Slum, can I hit you up for some more blood -Im running low and its almost daylight

[rainbowdemon]

Damn, Kiwi, you beat me to it. I had that song in my head the whole time I was reading this thread. Wanted to post the lyrics!!

Good song too.

:good job:

[KiwiCoromandel]

Damn, Kiwi, you beat me to it. I had that song in my head the whole time I was reading this thread. Wanted to post the lyrics!!

Good song too.

:good job:

sarah brightman from the original London cast of " phantom of the opera " mate.... :)

[rainbowdemon]

Damn, Kiwi, you beat me to it. I had that song in my head the whole time I was reading this thread. Wanted to post the lyrics!!

Good song too.

:good job:

sarah brightman from the original London cast of " phantom of the opera " mate.... :)

The original is a Queen song.

http://www.queenwords.com/lyrics/songs/sng19_09.shtml

[KiwiCoromandel]

yep..i`ve heard that version.......... :)

[slum_goddess]

Hey Slum, can I hit you up for some more blood -Im running low and its almost daylight 

i'm always happy to give others my blood but they have to sign a thingy stating they won't sue my ass when they realise they're not able to function (or move) until it wears off. i'm just sayin' :)