An Astonishing Perspective

[Guest]

[Will]

Sorry if I've already stated this somewhere, but I though I've lived only 28.something years, I find it astonishing how much can go on within a lifespan.  To think that someone born in 1880 who died in 1980 would remember a time before humans could fly, but would also have seen us go to the moon (assuming we did) is mind bending, at least to me.  Does anyone think there will be anything comparable in our lifespans?   

     

[nauseamfromrum]

i think it's pretty indisputable that we went to the moon. there are little metallic disks placed on the moon by one of the missions that if a laser is fired at them the signal will bounce back to earth--it was on mythbusters (i assume they are credible  but who knows)

i think we will probably have something comparable--i'm bankin on complete destruction. i'd say it;ll be pretty cool to see the end days--for we will be the ones with the utmost perpsective on the past. nobody else in history will have that context for human achievement. yet at the same time we will be the ones to realize everything we've personally achieved will merely be for the roaches' pleasure. i'm gonna write my autobiography in roach language

[Will]

i think we will probably have something comparable--i'm bankin on complete destruction. i'd say it;ll be pretty cool to see the end days--for we will be the ones with the utmost perpsective on the past. nobody else in history will have that context for human achievement. yet at the same time we will be the ones to realize everything we've personally achieved will merely be for the roaches' pleasure.

First hand experience of the end days would be very interesting.  Probably the most interesting thing that has ever happened.  We would have the utmost perspective on the past, or at least the latest version of it. 

[WA2]

What about living long enough to being able to live forever?
And living forever?

[Will]

Unless I was going to be in good health all the time, I wouldn't want immortality.  I like to think of death as permanent comfort for the soul...it's one of my wacky concepts in my wacky personal belief system. 

It would be interesting until technology becomes boring and predictable, if that's possible.  I imagine if you live forever some part of you has to be exhausted.  When the immortal start killing themselves, it may be time to go.  Do you think once people live long enough they desire death, even if they are in good health?  Maybe if lifespans increase to several hundred years and you've experienced every emotion and feeling a million times over?     

[WA2]

The well-known danger of immortality isn't it?

[Will]

They never make it to paradise.