Metal Reviews

I've been thinking a lot about nanotechnology today for some reason. As I'm sure you all know, we age as our body breaks down--fails to repair itself as adequately. The notion with nanotechnology is that it could pick up this slack, perhaps delay death indefinitely.

You probably wouldn't live forever, but who knows... maybe nanotechnology could allow you to live thousands of years. Even if it wasn't perfect at first, it would allow you to live longer, and experience better and better nanotechnology, to the point where it could likely repair almost anything, reverse any damage.

You would probably need to be quite wealthy to keep this up, and there are other ethical questions I'm not asking here, but would you do this to yourself? Would you, in a sense, be willing to become part robot to prolong your life indefinitely?

I know I would.

Me too, unless it's gonna mess with my brain in a non-physically repairing way.

Yes, but only if kelsey would do it too

No. 70 to 100 years is more than enough for me; I don't want to live on indefinitely.

I don't see why it would. It's hard to say how the human brain would develop over hundreds of years though. Just how wise could one get? Or insane?

In terms of conservation of the body, that means the brain as well.

I must admit that i don't know much about nanotechnology other then what i've read in science fiction books but i knows it means the design of things on a nano scale, ie atoms. I don't see the link between this and prolonged life. Surely before nanotechnology could be used to improve human heath and threfore prolong life human biology and medicine must improve first before nanotechnologists would know what they were doing?

But would i like to live forever? No, but i would love to see the future. So prolonged life sounds good, but if people lived for thousands of years that would cause a whole host of other problems.

These are just theories, and I'm not saying it'll be the case. This would obviously be extremely advanced nanotechnology, and it would probably take more than just nanotechnology as well.

Absolutely not; I await death, in fact. I personally find death to be beautiful.

sounds very asimovish to me... I say do it, but only if i'm allowed to migrate to another planet. Maybe with some robots to build my house for me.

Maybe you should kill yourself then. If it's so beautiful.

Absolutely. I'd do it in a second if it was possible.

No. Life makes no sense when there is nothing beyond. And the imagination to work another 200 years is horrifying.

This question has interesting implications. Would we live and act different, if we had, say, 1000 years? People who know that their lifetime is drawing to close often say that they live their life more conscious. By contrast I expect even more hebetude if there isn't any limtiation in sight. Seeing how many people just sleep away their 84 years of live yet, I don't expect anything good from life extention.

hell no!!!
i don't to live for ever! 70-80 years is more than enough. What is the fucking point in living more than a 1000 years. When u live that long life get meaningless and so fucking boring you would even imaging it... and for some, a 1000 years in front of the computer gets veeery boring.. 1 years is more than enough for me! yack!

... some simple points:
overpopulation
Modern sociaties rise and fall, is it really going to be that funny in the end? And do you even think the human kind will exist in a 1000 years?
Boring as hell! Living that long is nothing but a curse, even ghost hates to live more than 200 years ( no, i don't believe in ghosts)
I don't fear death, so no need to wait a 1000 years to prepare myself.
The chances of living for 1000s of years is slim. You'd get yourself killed in accident/war/etc before 300 years have past
Last, but not least... would u really want to work from 7-8 am to 4-5 pm for 700 years?.. no, i don't think so either.

but I would really like to see what the future will be like. I think we should do what asimov suggests: Emigrate to other planets and have a controlled population.


but I am totally fucking curious about what happens in the future...

well, the futures is exiting, at least from a science fiction point of view. But i don't think we will emigrate to other planets in the real world. It would require a huge amount of funds and research on how to use wormholes, cuz a spaceship flying with the speed of light is absolutely good for nothing, since it would have to fly for a million years to get anywhere.
I personally think science will peak at some point and brought to an end (or halted), due to a economic powershifts, or welfare going down the drain - less money, before even getting to the point of using wormholes.

a spaceship flying in the speed of light wouldn't take millions of years to get anywhere with, time doesn't really exists for things that move in the speed of light, but it's pretty much impossible to create such a spaceship without unlimited energy or the ability to turn things into mass-less particles

to create a spaceship that moves with 99% of the speed of light could be possible in theory and then spacetravels would be possible if Einstein is right, I can't remember exactly what the formula is but if I remember right it would take about 116 years or so to travel to the nearest star and back, but then about 2000 years would have passed on earth

and how would it take 116 years to get to the nearest star, when it takes over a million years for the light from the nearest star to hit earth?!


EDIT:okay, i take that back.. the nearest star is only 4,3 lightyears away

however... the problem is not finding a star that's close to earth... it's finding a star with a suitable planet(s).

there are an uncountable number of planets. do you truly believe that ours is the only habitable one?

and on the subject of travels, I'll just wait for hyperspace. Remember, the Falcon can do .5 past lightspeed. I don't know what that means, but it probably is pretty fast...