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Title: Russian researchers aiming for human immortality by 2045
Post by: jonathanc on <08-01-12/1229:50>: http://www.cbc.ca/news/yourcommunity/2012/07/human-immortality-could-be-possible-by-2045-say-russian-scientists.html

Looks like they're shooting for jar-heads, rather than Leonization, sadly.
Title: Re: Russian researchers aiming for human immortality by 2045
Post by: JustADude on <08-01-12/1357:27>: Well, that's not as horrible as it could be.

Immortality is great, in theory, but overcrowding is bad enough without people dying off even SLOWER.
Title: Re: Russian researchers aiming for human immortality by 2045
Post by: ArkangelWinter on <08-01-12/1424:49>: Hopefully one day we'll just stop reproducing because we'll be mostly machine.
Title: Re: Russian researchers aiming for human immortality by 2045
Post by: DaveDaveDaave on <08-01-12/1656:34>: Not sure overcrowding is an issue for a while yet. Most of America is empty apart from cities, Australia is virtually unexplored and Africa is going to be mostly empty due to the Aids problems?
Title: Re: Russian researchers aiming for human immortality by 2045
Post by: ArkangelWinter on <08-01-12/1708:42>: Ooh. Mix this with the Kuratas robot DarkLloyn posted recently, and we have Space Marine Dreadnaughts.
Title: Re: Russian researchers aiming for human immortality by 2045
Post by: KarmaInferno on <08-10-12/1542:03>: Quote from: JustADude on <08-01-12/1357:27>
Well, that's not as horrible as it could be.

Immortality is great, in theory, but overcrowding is bad enough without people dying off even SLOWER.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ix-I-OZnKY

-k
Title: Re: Russian researchers aiming for human immortality by 2045
Post by: JustADude on <08-11-12/0118:03>: Quote from: KarmaInferno on <08-10-12/1542:03>
Quote from: JustADude on <08-01-12/1357:27>
Well, that's not as horrible as it could be.

Immortality is great, in theory, but overcrowding is bad enough without people dying off even SLOWER.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ix-I-OZnKY

Oooh, nifty!
Title: Re: Russian researchers aiming for human immortality by 2045
Post by: DarkLloyd on <08-11-12/1602:45>: Quote from: JustADude on <08-11-12/0118:03>
Quote from: KarmaInferno on <08-10-12/1542:03>
Quote from: JustADude on <08-01-12/1357:27>
Well, that's not as horrible as it could be.

Immortality is great, in theory, but overcrowding is bad enough without people dying off even SLOWER.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ix-I-OZnKY

Oooh, nifty!

It was okay. Great premise slow delivery, and I'm one that like lots of expansion in my shows. But it ties up and picks up towards the end. Over all a good watch it could have been one or two episodes shorter.
Title: Re: Russian researchers aiming for human immortality by 2045
Post by: The_Gun_Nut on <08-14-12/1420:04>: Is anyone else strangely excited/worried/exuberant over this whole transhumanism thing we are moving towards?

It makes space exploration via sub-luminal speeds a very real possibility.
Title: Re: Russian researchers aiming for human immortality by 2045
Post by: DarkLloyd on <08-14-12/1716:45>: As long as we could get the Mind/machine transfer down (like Rigging) and then leave a trail of repeater satellites behind whatever ships we send out, I would say yeah lets do that.