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y.winter 19-03-2018 07:02 PM

1000? hell no.
It will get really boring. What can surprise you after the age of 100? how much would you actually care?

Jamie89 19-03-2018 07:19 PM

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Originally Posted by y.winter (Post 9924379)
1000? hell no.
It will get really boring. What can surprise you after the age of 100? how much would you actually care?

Big Brother 1001, android-Deana winning the Cyborg Allstars. Probably other stuff might happen too :laugh:

Ammi 20-03-2018 05:18 AM

..so ‘I recall back in the day’...would become..’crikey, I can’t recall that far back, that was 900 years ago..’...it would be like those time travel movies...(..unless it was available to all..)...in having to feel the emotional pain of losing so many people that you loved...emotional pain is a huge thing of ‘aging’ as well, I think...so it would be ‘fighting’ that also....and it would be hard../...well impossible maybe...to plan for the future financially etc...when the future would be so endless...interesting though, if it were possible for all....

thesheriff443 20-03-2018 06:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Niamh. (Post 9924334)
There was a Torchwood episode as well where no one could die and it was chaos

Did you know torchwood is an anagram of doctor who.

thesheriff443 20-03-2018 06:10 AM

posters never die on tibb, they just get bumped.

Cherie 20-03-2018 07:16 AM

No, what would happen to the Circle of Life (an not just the Elton John song :hehe:), people being kept alive because of medical advancements is part of the problem we have at the moment, average life expectancy has gone up and while I am glad it is no longer 47 or something ridiculous like that I think mid 80s is about right

Ammi 20-03-2018 07:23 AM

...I guess on a plus thing...student loans../education costs, wouldn’t be such a worry...right, we’ll just repay £30 per year then, I’ll transfer that now...

Jamie89 20-03-2018 08:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Cherie (Post 9924783)
No, what would happen to the Circle of Life (an not just the Elton John song :hehe:), people being kept alive because of medical advancements is part of the problem we have at the moment, average life expectancy has gone up and while I am glad it is no longer 47 or something ridiculous like that I think mid 80s is about right

Most people would still die though, like bots said how many people actually dies from old age? And the likelihood of diseases/accidents etc happening would only increase the older people get.

I think pensions would be an interesting one, we couldn't really have people working for 70 years then retiring for 900 [emoji23] maybe it would be something where you'd have 70 on and 30 off every century you're alive :think:

Cherie 20-03-2018 09:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Jamie89 (Post 9924815)
Most people would still die though, like bots said how many people actually dies from old age? And the likelihood of diseases/accidents etc happening would only increase the older people get.

I think pensions would be an interesting one, we couldn't really have people working for 70 years then retiring for 900 [emoji23] maybe it would be something where you'd have 70 on and 30 off every century you're alive :think:


but isn't that part of why the NHS is so over stretched at the moment, all those hip ops...:laugh:

Jamie89 20-03-2018 09:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Cherie (Post 9924848)
but isn't that part of why the NHS is so over stretched at the moment, all those hip ops...:laugh:

Hmm, probably. But then if everyone worked an extra few hundred years before retiring we'd have more NHS workers so it might even out :laugh:

Mystic Mock 20-03-2018 02:58 PM

I'm selfish and would take it.:laugh:

AnnieK 20-03-2018 03:06 PM

Can't think of anything worse - I'm already constantly exhausted :laugh: How the hell I would fair at 900 is beyond me

Beso 20-03-2018 07:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Ammi (Post 9924790)
...I guess on a plus thing...student loans../education costs, wouldn’t be such a worry...right, we’ll just repay £30 per year then, I’ll transfer that now...


:joker:

kirklancaster 20-03-2018 08:10 PM

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Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet (Post 9923875)
I am already sick of life and i am only 38

:laugh:

Wizard. 20-03-2018 08:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Niamh. (Post 9923803)
I don't think the earth could sustain all the people if we lived to 1000, unless no one was allowed have kids. It would probably end up being only the rich and powerful allowed have them or some s**t

Only skinny attractive people

kirklancaster 20-03-2018 08:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Ammi (Post 9924790)
...I guess on a plus thing...student loans../education costs, wouldn’t be such a worry...right, we’ll just repay £30 per year then, I’ll transfer that now...

:laugh: But how nice would a 950 year Capital Repayment mortgage be Ammi? :hehe:

Maru 20-03-2018 11:41 PM

Those billion year contracts that some Scientologists are forced to sign might actually mean something now...

Brillopad 21-03-2018 07:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Jamie89 (Post 9923796)
Do you think it would be a good thing?

This man is developing therapies "that will repair the damage that the body does to itself throughout life. He believes that ageing can be treated as a disease that can be cured." And he thinks that his treatments will enable people living today to live past 1000 years old :shocked:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/technol...urable-disease

He actually makes some good points for it imo in terms of morality.

I believe that Mother Nature has a reasoning behind everything she does. The world is over-crowded with people starving in many parts of the world and things are getting worse.

Human beings were not designed to live that long for a reason - with a lack of sufficient resources such as food etc a major factor. It isn’t meant to be and would cause far more problems for the world and the human race.

kirklancaster 21-03-2018 07:43 AM

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Originally Posted by thesheriff443 (Post 9924760)
Did you know torchwood is an anagram of doctor who.

I'm usually very perceptive with this kind of thing, but I did not know that.

I do now. Thanks.

Crimson Dynamo 21-03-2018 08:04 AM

we need to stop people being born in places like Africa and India more

Livia 21-03-2018 10:36 AM

It would be a bad thing. We're already overpopulated and struggling to feed and house people. Imagine what it'll be like in 100 years when the whole works is like a shanty town. Add to that people living forever.... sounds like hell on earth.

kirklancaster 21-03-2018 11:10 AM

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Originally Posted by Cherie (Post 9924848)
but isn't that part of why the NHS is so over stretched at the moment, all those hip ops...:laugh:

:laugh:

kirklancaster 21-03-2018 11:13 AM

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Originally Posted by Livia (Post 9926419)
It would be a bad thing. We're already overpopulated and struggling to feed and house people. Imagine what it'll be like in 100 years when the whole works is like a shanty town. Add to that people living forever.... sounds like hell on earth.

I want to be here when Man colonizes other worlds. When cures are found for Cancer and other terrible diseases and when Peaceful Co-Existence of ALL Mankind is finally the 'Norm'.

Am I just a dreamer? :hehe:

Twosugars 21-03-2018 11:39 AM

I'd like to be able to hibernate, nice long sleep for a few days or months whenever I feel like it

Kazanne 21-03-2018 12:16 PM

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Originally Posted by kirklancaster (Post 9926460)
I want to be here when Man colonizes other worlds. When cures are found for Cancer and other terrible diseases and when Peaceful Co-Existence of ALL Mankind is finally the 'Norm'.

Am I just a dreamer? :hehe:

Yes,sadly I think so Kirk, I think the co-existence of all mankind is more unlikely than colonizing other worlds, I think we will eventually destroy this planet and probably take ourselves with it. We have polluted the air and the seas,we have killed animals so much so some of them are on the brink of extinction ,we dabble with mother nature too much and I am leaning towards the thought of there may already be a cure for cancer,but not quite convinced yet.I don't think I would want to live indefinitely.


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