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Targa, Panamera Turbo
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Location: Houston TX
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If there was a chance you could live almost forever...
Lets say you could go on a life support type device and plug into a virtual reality simulation that you could not tell apart from reality. All the neural links matched your senses to the point that they were totally indistinguishable from the real deal. A computer allowed randomness but with a certain amount of training you could begin to manipulate your reality and make goals and dreams come true...but the program would throw serious random curveballs from time to time when it sensed you were getting too comfy or bored.
Yey, I know, sounds like the Matrix but... Would you do it?
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05-28-2014, 07:03 PM
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Location: Columbus, OH
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No. I do not want to live forever. Sounds like a softcore hell to me.
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05-28-2014, 07:41 PM
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Will there be a porn channel?
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05-28-2014, 07:43 PM
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Do I inherit billions of dollars with annuity that has a nice yearly payment of interest to me? Because I surely don't want to work forever.
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05-28-2014, 07:49 PM
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The Unsettler
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Lantanna TX
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Only if I could start 100 years in the past.
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I'd have to think about it before I could make up my mind. But, what you are describing is probably the way some things will be in the future. Think space travel where it will take a long time to transit, or for when freight from one place to another takes place. If it isn't completely controlled by computer (which it probably will be) they may hook a human or parts of one up to the control mechanism. Plus when the time comes, we could just enter a virtual reality. No body parts will be needed. Either way just think about how afraid you would be of being deleted.
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05-28-2014, 07:52 PM
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Lets get to the point, shall we? Do I get to do the horizontal mambo with Lt. Deanna Troi or not?
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05-28-2014, 07:56 PM
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How do you know that's not what happens when you die?
I wouldn't do it. You do your time and move on. |
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Oz
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If we dont end up destroying ourselves over resources, there will be fusion of human and computer. Eventually, we won't need bodies anymore.
I don't want to be around forever stuck on Earth. The idea of being consciously one with the Universe is kinda cool though.
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05-28-2014, 08:01 PM
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That means you are going to be here for ever?
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05-28-2014, 08:26 PM
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05-28-2014, 08:27 PM
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Back in the saddle again
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Central TX west of Houston
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Hmm, I might. Yeah, I think I would.
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05-28-2014, 08:41 PM
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A Man of Wealth and Taste
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Out there somewhere beyond the doors of perception
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What about being BANNED to the island?
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I worked with her on Body of Proof. Nice lady, easy on the eyes.
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05-28-2014, 09:12 PM
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Do you own a Porsche?
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05-28-2014, 09:12 PM
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Can I kick the tires and take it for a test ride first?
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05-28-2014, 09:14 PM
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05-28-2014, 09:50 PM
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Is there really a difference ?
BTW, did you ever watch Liquid Sky ? |
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05-29-2014, 02:12 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Adelaide South Australia
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But yes it's like the concept behind the Matrix but it's not and never will be real. It won't feel real either and your free will and all that will be gone. I'm not sure I'd choose it but in the distant future you may not get to choose.
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