Frank wrote on Aug 11^th, 2016 at 12:54am:


Well there is a fun tale I recall hearing of an old man who lived to be like a 180 a simple country farmer. A king upon hearing of the mans great age invited him to a royal banquet to ask his secret.

As they sat down to the meal the king asked. The old man said it was due to drinking only water and eating only fresh vegetables meat and potatoes. He then was served a rich royal meal and fell over dead after one bite.

Also Nikola Tesla once said drinking a glass of whisky a day would extend his life span considerably and he did outlive rivals like Edison and died a spry old man who got hit by a car while in the process of selling the us government his death ray supposedly and died from that. So who knows how long he might of lasted otherwise.

Revaulting wrote on Aug 12^th, 2016 at 8:18am:


Maybe it will be cancer cells we use as the material to build with perhaps like how they do it in the fifth element at the beginning.

Frank wrote on Aug 10^th, 2016 at 9:53pm:


1,000 years is science fiction.  As Revaulting pointed out, it doesn't matter how pure your diet and exercise is, our cells break down over time due to more than just diet and exercise.

If it were possible to live for extreme times just due to diet and exercise, then in our relatively peaceful times, many islander and isolated cultural still living agrarian/nomadic lifestyles would have people well over 100.

I think the origin of the study you refer to might have been the study of the residents of Okinawa who have average lifespans well above most western cultures, attributed in part to a basic diet and some regular exercise.

If the extra 20 years is quality, like the Okinawans, then count me in.
If it is just an extra 20 years at the end, lying in a bed in a semi-vegetative state wearing a diaper and drooling inanely to myself for 20 years - no thanks.

Modern medicine and technology is extending our lifespans, but for many, it is just living longer in a crappy state and being a burden on our families.

PersonaNonGrata wrote on Aug 14^th, 2016 at 7:18am:

Because DDO will be dead by then?

Another aspect consider the huge advances made in connecting our minds to computers directly. Concepts like when a scientist put his mind into data's body in STTNG or more recently when chappie did it for his creator at the end of Chappie may really not be so far off. Quantum computers are very likely the first step and are no longer the science fiction that data's positronic matrix was thirty years ago. Leaving behind our flawed organics shell may well be part of it and the world seen in the ghost in the shell may become our reality.

Even space exploration companies are researching all these things because short of FTL travel its only by making us nigh immortal that will let us spread out across the stars as we must if we wish pur species to outlast this silly little world so many seem desperate to cling to. This world will die one day albeit many millions of years from now when the sun does. We don't have to end with it and we alone can play celestial Noah and save the genetic code of all other life. Do not fret over things going extinct today do not fear using up this worlds resources if its in the persuit of leaving earth behind. This planet is but a giant peach we are traveling through space upon and just as with James and his friends one day it will rot away no matter what.

kum-gulp wrote on Aug 14^th, 2016 at 10:33am:

Oh look another who assumes only socks must like to bullshit and banter gawd forbid a new comer steps into the prison yard ready to hold his own. I am karavek here and was originally on the turbine forums before I went out with a blaze of glory in a thread I started in response to the extreme prejudice be turbine tried to little to late that was entitled if you want to ban someone start with me. And all they did was perma ban my forum account they didn't even give me an in game vacation oh and their attempt to remove duped items misses most of what I'd duped but did take many years worth of events legit mats which to their expert eye must of been duped. Oh my lol was great over that. If I cared to ever log into DDO again I'd still be sitting on more of a boards then I could spend in another ten years should the walking corpse still be plodding along.

Go look up a thread I started long ago called a cleric tied to a chair. A good twenty plus pages of classic forum drama centered around divine casters and their players being meant for more then supporting the loudmouth mana sponges.

You will see my post style and tendency to ramble and rant is largely unchanged and my arrogant nature prevent ts me from changing into a sock. In fact the alt accounts I used after karavek was banned from those forums got banned specifically because I frequently stated I was in fact karavek on an alt handle and QQing bitches chose to take the cheap shot report rather then argue it out like real forum-fu warriors.

Karavek is posting high on psychedelic mushrooms again.  And also again invoking his cleric tied to a chair thread which nobody knows or remembers but makes himself feel important? So odd. Winning.

karavek wrote on Aug 14^th, 2016 at 1:01pm:

No thanks.

karavek wrote on Aug 14^th, 2016 at 1:01pm:

No thanks.

TL:DR. You remind me of another talkative poster here.

karavek wrote on Aug 14^th, 2016 at 10:05am:

You are insane.  Humanity will poison its own environment and drive itself into extinction because some people who are already wealthy want to be even more wealthy.

Animals ignorant of climate change know better than to shit where they live.  We have crafted an entire culture based on rewarding those who shit the largest turds right where they live.

kum-gulp wrote on Aug 14^th, 2016 at 5:17pm:


You have an apt forum handle hadn't even notices it earlier. You see you remind me of a prison bitch so that name is likely tatted across your forehead.

karavek wrote on Aug 14^th, 2016 at 10:05am:

I say "not unless", and you say "on the brink". In both statements, the obstacle is currently still an obstacle. We aren't disputing facts.

In the future, we will become our own robot overlords. Yes. That future is not today. Today, the odds are still strong that instead of curing old age, we will invent nano-cancer.


karavek wrote on Aug 14^th, 2016 at 10:20am:

http://phys.org/news/2016-02-eternal-5d-storage-history-humankind.html


Frank wrote on Aug 14^th, 2016 at 7:25pm:

Personally, I'm enjoying the hell out of his self-contradictions. Every one of his arguments already explains why it's wrong. But you have to sit with it. It's like an anti-koan.

Revaulting wrote on Aug 14^th, 2016 at 8:01pm: