If you could live for 900 years, what would you do?

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26 Nov 2008, 5:55 pm

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If humanity survives the next 100 years or so and biological engineering continues at the present rate humanity will, in a century or so, have small resemblance to humanity today. People will be so integrated into their technology that somebody who is determined to remain as a human today is will be as out of date as a neanderthal man might be today. He will be regarded as an outmoded museum exhibit and might be permitted to live in a kind of zoo. If he goes along with the changes there is no telling what he might become or want to become.

I would not object to being thought behind the times; neither the antiquity nor the novelty of an idea is a measure of its worth. On the other hand, if I have gained a nine hundred year lifespan this suggests I would have undergone modifications of my own. Maybe I have become a Time Lord.

I would learn so much from the study of lived history - as well as other spheres of learning. Maybe later I could be some sort of Adviser and mentor. I would be able to make longterm plans for future history, and early setbacks would not be a disaster as I would still have more time.

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26 Nov 2008, 6:31 pm

If you could live for 900 years, what would you do?
I'd spend these years searching for truth and discovering how to live forever :wink:

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26 Nov 2008, 6:40 pm

I would procrastinate even more than I do now.

also, if I could not be killed before I reach 900 I would get drunk every other day and take loads of illegal substances, and smoke a packet a day

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27 Nov 2008, 2:13 am

If I knew I could live that long, I would first invest. Owning certain stocks for even 50 years would lead to a decent sum of monies. I'd keep going with that until I knew I would never have to work again.

Next, I would travel. See all sorts of wonderful things. After I got tired of that, I would start buying up land... a lot of land... like all of Nebraska. If I had say 200 years to work on it, I bet I could get a fair amount.

Then, I would start working on my own space exploration company. The goal being able to travel around the solar system. That would be fun for me.

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27 Nov 2008, 6:13 am

Sand wrote:

slowmutant wrote:

Just out of curiosity, what would be keeping me alive that long?

Science? Sorcery? The life-force of others?

Determination

Either an alchemist gives you the Elixir of Life or you have been turned into a Time Lord.

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30 Nov 2008, 6:18 pm

I'd definitely sleep through half, then catch up on my reading.

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30 Nov 2008, 9:37 pm

I see no alchemists around these days. I guess they didn't make it.

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30 Nov 2008, 10:54 pm

My own counsel would I keep on who is to be trained!

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30 Nov 2008, 10:58 pm

Sand wrote:

I see no alchemists around these days. I guess they didn't make it.

Not since Sir Robert Boyle and his book The Skeptical Chemist.

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