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Originally Posted by Sage of Earth
Plus you might cure aging, but you can't cure death. If I shoot one of these uberhumans in the head they'll still die. So why bother?
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By your reasoning we shouldn't bother with extending Human lives at all, even within the natural limit. Let's all just revert back to the 1750's when the life expectancy was around 35 five years.
And to all of you saying that "immortals" would just eat up all our recourses, you make it sound like these people wouldn't do anything for themselves and just cry for food and shelter like infants. I'm sure that anyone who could live to be 1,000 could use all that time to solve this problem. Besides, 1,000 years is at the very limit of possibility. More likely we would get people living to be about 300 years. Which isn't a extreme as you'd expect because many people agree that the life expectancy will be 150 years in the next 20 years. Due to cloning organs.
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Originally Posted by Liquid Fire
Also as far as cloning goes, not quite sure growing a clone to steal their organs would be going around either, think of the human rights involved.
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We wouldn't actually need to clone entire humans. We could make an exact and perfectly healthy copy of your heart without making an entire copy of you. Don't believe it? Well, it has been proven possible with a copy machine. If you take a small amount of heart cells, put them in an ink cartridge and copy it, you'll get heart tissue that actually beats! Give 20 years time to advance this science, and we'll be copying entire organs in a matter of minutes. Brains however, will not be copyable, well they will but the wont function like the original, having no experiences or memories like the first one did. So, you can make your body immortal, but once your brain ages, it's over.
But the brain has been shown to age very slowly, and if Alzheimer's or brain cancer or some other brain ailments can be cured, we could live for a very long time indeed.