by Centurii-chan

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    3 hours ago

    Idk, have you looked around lately? Not sure I could put up with much more of this tbh.

    Also how immortal are we talking here? Like several thousand years of vamping, then kaput by unnatural causes/moidled? Or like, orbiting the last dying star for warmth as the universe goes out, immortal?

  • Remotedeck@discuss.tchncs.de
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    9 hours ago

    People in media always make immortality sound awful. It really wouldnt be that bad, they always make little twists like you can’t ever die or nobody else can be immortal with you, all because its hard to make giving people more time to live seem awful without those twists. I find it fairly annoying.

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      5 hours ago

      I would accept immortality if I could choose to die at any moment

      (Quasi-heatdeath and all that)

    • Chronographs@lemmy.zip
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      7 hours ago

      Every time something uses the ‘life only has meaning because it ends’ trope I want to scream

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    12 hours ago

    I was more excited about life at 8 than at after 20, so for me it’s def reversed.

    Tho I do need to know if an elixir causes immortality, I do not want to drink it by accident.

  • 𝕾𝖕𝖎𝖈𝖞 𝕿𝖚𝖓𝖆@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    Imagine still being alive to witness the slow, agonizing death of the universe, when all matter and energy are evenly spread across an incomprehensible vastness, and nothing will or can ever happen again. The next billion years would be fairly interesting until the sun expands and swallows the Earth…or, at least, dries up its oceans. Hopefully, you’ve found a way out and onto another planet for another billion or so years. But after about 170 quattuorvigintillion years of cold, dark, nothingness, you’ll probably get pretty bored of it all.

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      13 hours ago

      I don’t think very many people, if any, want to be unable to die forever. Most people just want more time.

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        I don’t think very many people, if any, want to be unable to die forever.

        sign me the fuck up broham.

        more time = more opportunities to roll the aristocracy over and spank their ass raw.

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          6 hours ago

          I don’t think very many people, if any, want to be unable to die forever. Most people just want more time. Except this guy.

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      8 hours ago

      Imagine becoming immortal at the dawn of the age of science. then spending the next 8000 years secretly building a ship in your free time to take you off this godforsaken planet.

      only to find that:

      a) you’re not the only one

      b) you’re not even human

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      13 hours ago

      Making a lot of assumptions here that our models are accurate enough to correctly predict the end of the universe - whether it’s a big crunch, big rip, heat death, some clumsy git dropping the marble so it shatters, or something else entirely. I would take eternal life+youth so I could find out.

      Once I know everything, then I might get bored.

      • 𝕾𝖕𝖎𝖈𝖞 𝕿𝖚𝖓𝖆@lemmy.world
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        13 hours ago

        So far, I think the general consensus is heat death. Being an optimist, my hope is for the big crunch. If that one’s true, what’d be infinitely hilarious is if it always repeats in exactly the same way.

        If that’s the case, then I guess all of us do truly live forever. We just microdose the same exact snippet of eternity.

        So much of what exists is spheres and circles. Who’s to say time doesn’t also run in a circle?

    • PugJesus@lemmy.worldOP
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      13 hours ago

      I was promised eternal life, not consciousness. That’s cryosleep conditions right there.

  • Omgpwnies@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    oof imagine being immortal, but you keep on aging and getting diseases and stuff but they just can’t kill you