Science - strawberry float YEAH

Meep wrote:

Moggy wrote:

Meep wrote:The way I see it, making humans immortal is much more achievable than creating FTL, which is probably impossible. What have these things got to do with each other? Well, assuming medical technology reaches the point were we are immortal, the long times required for interstellar travel cease to be a problem. If you never grow old you won't care about taking a few centuries to reach another solar system, especially if you can go into some kind of deep sleep most of the way.

I moan like strawberry float if I am on a one hour flight.

I imagine an interstellar ship would be strawberry floating huge. If you are going to be living there for a few centuries you'll probably want your own living quarters and all sort of entertainment and such to keep you occupied. You could probably get a job on the ship. If you're not qualified, no big deal, you're immortal so you have time to become an expert in pretty much anything you have the remotest aptitude for.

You mean I could fulfil my dreams of being a lazy couch potato?

While living forever would render the time spent irrelevant, we would still experience time passing in the same way. I would sign up in an instant (travelling through space would be amazing), but it would be boring after the first couple of years.

A stasis type arrangement (like in Alien) would be best. Sleep for a few decades at a time and then you don't even notice the time you have spent floating through nothingness.

The initially rather amazing Astropolis trilogy by Sean WIlliams solves the problem rather uniquely - humans can lower their tempo to such an extent that century-long journeys pass in days. Well worth a read.

I like the way that achieving Immortality is going to be a cinch, relatively speaking.


Good luck with that one.

How are they getting on with 'curing' male pattern boldness? That should be the first step.

Denster wrote:I like the way that achieving Immortality is going to be a cinch, relatively speaking.


Good luck with that one.

Relative to travelling faster than light, it would be easy. All you have to do is progress nanotechnology the point where you can repair damage on a molecular level, so natural deterioration of the body is constantly corrected. Whereas going faster than light requires fiddling with the laws of physics themselves.

BTW, I heard somewhere they were exploring possible gene therapy to stop or cure baldness, which would pretty interesting if a rather frivolous use of technology.

Meep wrote:

Denster wrote:I like the way that achieving Immortality is going to be a cinch, relatively speaking.


Good luck with that one.

Relative to travelling faster than light, it would be easy. All you have to do is progress nanotechnology the point where you can repair damage on a molecular level, so natural deterioration of the body is constantly corrected. Whereas going faster than light requires fiddling with the laws of physics themselves.

BTW, I heard somewhere they were exploring possible gene therapy to stop or cure baldness, which would pretty interesting if a rather frivolous use of technology.

Frivolous my bald head. This is vital stuff.

Fizheuer Zieheuer wrote:"All you have to do is"

Don't be obtuse, Anny: he's comparing something very difficult to something that may be physically impossible and says he expects the very difficult thing to be achieved first. Meep isn't always the best-informed but he's adopting a perfectly reasonable viewpoint here.

Meep wrote:

Denster wrote:I like the way that achieving Immortality is going to be a cinch, relatively speaking.


Good luck with that one.

Relative to travelling faster than light, it would be easy. All you have to do is progress nanotechnology the point where you can repair damage on a molecular level, so natural deterioration of the body is constantly corrected. Whereas going faster than light requires fiddling with the laws of physics themselves.

BTW, I heard somewhere they were exploring possible gene therapy to stop or cure baldness, which would pretty interesting if a rather frivolous use of technology.

We could just sterilise people with the baldness gene. Problem sorted in a much more natural way.

Nah, natural would be if the temperature here permanently dropped year round. Survival of the hairiest.

Denster wrote:I like the way that achieving Immortality is going to be a cinch, relatively speaking.


Good luck with that one.

What you you talking about? We've already got immortality.

TheTurnipKing wrote:

Denster wrote:I like the way that achieving Immortality is going to be a cinch, relatively speaking.


Good luck with that one.

What you you talking about? We've already got immortality.

And



Give us your philosophers stone Mr Cage.

TheTurnipKing wrote:

Denster wrote:I like the way that achieving Immortality is going to be a cinch, relatively speaking.


Good luck with that one.

What you you talking about? We've already got immortality.

Wow an Asian guy who says he looks exactly the same as he did 5 years ago

Nicholas Cage has a old painting in his attic.

Fizheuer Zieheuer wrote:"All you have to do is"

Haha. Yeah.

Moggy wrote:stasis type arrangement (like in Alien) would be best. Sleep for a few decades at a time and then you don't even notice the time you have spent floating through nothingness.

Apart from everyone you know being dead or really old when you wake up, yeah. I suppose if you committed to that it's pretty much a one way trip anyway.

Meep wrote:

Moggy wrote:stasis type arrangement (like in Alien) would be best. Sleep for a few decades at a time and then you don't even notice the time you have spent floating through nothingness.

Apart from everyone you know being dead or really old when you wake up, yeah. I suppose if you committed to that it's pretty much a one way trip anyway.

No reason they couldn't send families rather than single people.

StayDead wrote:

Meep wrote:

Moggy wrote:stasis type arrangement (like in Alien) would be best. Sleep for a few decades at a time and then you don't even notice the time you have spent floating through nothingness.

Apart from everyone you know being dead or really old when you wake up, yeah. I suppose if you committed to that it's pretty much a one way trip anyway.

No reason they couldn't send families rather than single people.

I reckon that'd be less popular.

Karlprof wrote:

Fizheuer Zieheuer wrote:"All you have to do is"

Don't be obtuse, Anny: he's comparing something very difficult to something that may be physically impossible and says he expects the very difficult thing to be achieved first. Meep isn't always the best-informed but he's adopting a perfectly reasonable viewpoint here.

It's the combination of smug avatar and smug tone that got me tbh.

Lucien wrote:

Moggy wrote:stasis type arrangement (like in Alien) would be best. Sleep for a few decades at a time and then you don't even notice the time you have spent floating through nothingness.

Unless your stasis machine breaks.

Machines on independant redundant power networks. That way if you lose one group, there are still others. Acceptable losses.