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| Re: What if people could live 500 years? [message #180032 is a reply to message #179715] |
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you would go by how things are needed? we don't need antibiotics, but you're pretty grateful for that, hey? It could lead to teh cure for cancer or god knows what else and you're going to turn it down because there might be a slight chance some bad person would use it to live longer? People who are wanted can't exactly escape their whole life, or 6 times that. So how about thinking of the many peoples lives you could save (even if directly it doesn't solve the cure for cancer, what about scientists who could?)
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| Re: What if people could live 500 years? [message #180109 is a reply to message #180077] |
Tue, 22 November 2005 13:13 |
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| Blazer wrote on Tue, 22 November 2005 05:32 |
If the human race is ever to advance, we must attain as much knowledge as possible. What we do with that knowledge, is what defines who we are.
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http://science.slashdot.org/science/05/11/22/192252.shtml?ti d=146&tid=98&tid=14
Unfortunately, there are craploads of people who won't agree :/
Cloning and other gene/dna-based research would be extremely valuable, but it's easier said than done. Of course there's a limit in what should be done in the name of science, but simply mentioning the words "gene" "mouse experiment" and "mutation" pretty much gets you sued, prosecuted and burned in a bonefire with <insert religious symbols> poked through your heart nowadays.
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Growing numbers of Americans support the idea of teaching creationism in schools, and in a recent CBS News poll, 51 per cent of respondents said they rejected the idea of evolution
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I don't know how trustworthy The Register is, so make your own conclusions.
Edit: Oh, and with that being said, it's time to find my asbest suit again...
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| Re: What if people could live 500 years? [message #180130 is a reply to message #179715] |
Tue, 22 November 2005 15:28 |
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For instance any chemist knows how to poison the water supply of a major city and kill hundreds of thousands of people, but are they doing that, or are they working on finding cures for cancer etc?
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But a chemist is making weapons of mass destruction.Take a look at Iraq for an example.
Nukes?Sure, the energy is efficient, but it makes a hell of a "bang".
As for the cancer cure.
Sure it will be great to discover one.I never said i am against that.I smoke and i think that it`d be quite a discovery 
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| Re: What if people could live 500 years? [message #180333 is a reply to message #179715] |
Thu, 24 November 2005 20:53 |
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I don't think u would have to worry about being old and misserable for 100 years. Very few people would live to 500. Most would die from car crashes or have a much higher chance of being raped and killed before natural death.
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| Re: What if people could live 500 years? [message #180346 is a reply to message #180333] |
Fri, 25 November 2005 02:04 |
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| cypher909 wrote on Thu, 24 November 2005 22:53 |
I don't think u would have to worry about being old and misserable for 100 years. Very few people would live to 500. Most would die from car crashes or have a much higher chance of being raped and killed before natural death.
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You missed being insane for 500 years...
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| Re: What if people could live 500 years? [message #180414 is a reply to message #179905] |
Fri, 25 November 2005 17:48 |
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You would be 400% more likly to kill urself.
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| Re: What if people could live 500 years? [message #181200 is a reply to message #179808] |
Fri, 02 December 2005 20:04 |
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| Blazer wrote on Sat, 19 November 2005 18:04 |
Also in 500 years ack would be in his wheelchair, talking about how Renegade is dead 
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Prolly, but I would say God forbid his children would be taking up his life work to tell us that renegade is dead.
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