If there was a chance you could live almost forever...

[ledhedsymbols]

Originally Posted by DanielDudley

Is there really a difference ?

BTW, did you ever watch Liquid Sky ?

Well.... It IS one pay grade in an imaginary military force from a television show.

I have never watched Liquid Sky. It looks interesting, I shall check out Amazon Prime and Netflix and see if they have it.

[sc_rufctr]

Tom Cruise's movie Vanilla Sky showed this type of "reality".
The Lucid Dream they called it but it seems somewhat problematic to say the least.

........ Like you're the only real thing running around in the "Video Game" in your head.

I really believe that fact that our lives are unpredictable and finite gives them real value.

[GH85Carrera]

Answer: 'I would not live forever, because we should not
live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever,
then we would live forever, but we cannot live forever,
which is why I would not live forever,'

-- Miss Alabama in the 1994 Miss USA contest .

[BK911]

They already have the technology to *download* your brain into a computer. The computer would then have your consciousness. Combine that with the Japanese lifelike robots, and BAM! Just need annual oil changes and you live forever!

The issue now is the cost. But like all other technology, it will get cheaper. Couple of decades and maybe it gets affordable for the masses.

[ckelly78z]

I have no desire to live an alternative life under sedation. My greatest fear would be to wake up alone when the power goes out 500 years from now from a world war with the invading aliens.

[Jim Richards]

Not for me.

[sc_rufctr]

Originally Posted by ckelly78z

I have no desire to live an alternative life under sedation. My greatest fear would be to wake up alone when the power goes out 500 years from now from a world war with the invading aliens.

If that happened to me I'd make the most of those last moments. I'd go for a true Spartan death!
That means I'd take as many of those Aliens as I could with me and I'd go smiling.... ha ha!

[sand_man]

Using my "mind powers", will I be able to activate a button like this, if I decide that I made the wrong decision, or that I've had enough

[sand_man]

or this:

[stealthn]

What makes you think I have arms, legs and a body now, and I am not just a conscience now trolling the Internet looking for amusing anecdotes, and porn?

[sand_man]

Originally Posted by stealthn

What makes you think I have arms, legs and a body now, and I am not just a conscience now trolling the Internet looking for amusing anecdotes, and porn?

In THAT case I'll live "forever"!

[sc_rufctr]

Originally Posted by stealthn

What makes you think I have arms, legs and a body now, and I am not just a conscience now trolling the Internet looking for amusing anecdotes, and porn?

I thought we were all like this.

[gacook]

Originally Posted by stomachmonkey

Only if I could start 100 years in the past.

Now, THAT might actually be pretty cool. I'm young(ish)--37--and I've often marvelled at the things my grandfather saw in his lifetime (he passed away a couple years ago at the age of 98). Nothing truly "new," aside from the internet, has happened in my lifetime. To be a part of the rapid discovery and change from the late 1800's and early 1900's would be so awesome. My grandpa was in aviation, and that man was brilliant. Never shied from technology. He retired before I was born, but always stayed on top of things. When computers became mainstream, he bought himself one and had me teach him how to use it. His mind was sharp as a razor up till his last day.

I miss that man, and his stories.

[sammyg2]

Originally Posted by M.D. Holloway

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?

What if there were no hypothetical questions?

[cairns]

I think someone already thought of this.

[Noah930]

Originally Posted by Hugh R

Jeri Ryan

I worked with her on Body of Proof. Nice lady, easy on the eyes.

Her daughter did gymnastics at the same place my daughter did, last summer. Yes, she is very pretty.

But to answer the OP's question, no freakin' way.

[flipper35]

Originally Posted by Noah930

Originally Posted by Hugh R View Post
Jeri Ryan

I worked with her on Body of Proof. Nice lady, easy on the eyes.

Her daughter did gymnastics at the same place my daughter did, last summer. Yes, she is very pretty.

But to answer the OP's question, no freakin' way.

But she isn't Deanna Troi. Marina Sirtis is.

Jeri Ryan is Seven of Nine.

[flipper35]

Troi:

[flipper35]

Seven:



And no, I wouldn't.

[scottmandue]

Originally Posted by HardDrive

No. I do not want to live forever. Sounds like a softcore hell to me.

This!

And we all know what unethical doctors sometimes do to sedated patients... Imagine being in permanent stasis and what some sick people might do to your body.