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03 Dec 2006, 8:12 am

1) Long life span basically like the life your currently living.

2) Short life with much greater progress in all areas.

I posed this question in college and most picked number 2(as I do). Be interesting
to see how others choose.

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03 Dec 2006, 8:18 am

I pick 1), but only if I sustain my current age.

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03 Dec 2006, 9:11 am

How long would the long life be? And how short would the shorter one be? Bit of a meaningless question really - as with the short life I could be dead at 40!

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03 Dec 2006, 10:22 am

Short Life, I don't want to live with some of the repercussions of old age (Fake teeth, heart bypasses, pentions, ect anyone?) plus I've always liked the idea of being better in my respective fields, I think I could deal with being a Polymath.

Oh great now you've got me fantasizing. :lol:

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03 Dec 2006, 11:45 am

I'd choose option 1; I'm very happy with my current life.

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03 Dec 2006, 12:02 pm

I choose to be thrown into London, as it was, between 1956 and 1967. I choose to be tossed into a random year, in that span, in order to conduct one of the first Standard Routemasters.

Ding! Ding!

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03 Dec 2006, 1:27 pm

Tequila wrote:

How long would the long life be? And how short would the shorter one be? Bit of a meaningless question really - as with the short life I could be dead at 40!

Short could be as little as 5 more years and long could be till the ripe old age of 120.

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03 Dec 2006, 1:33 pm

I pick number one, because at least I know I'd be happy, at least most of the time.

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03 Dec 2006, 1:34 pm

I would like to live a long life, because I am happy where I live right now, my hometown of Seattle, Washington!

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03 Dec 2006, 2:42 pm

If I could exist for a long time precisely the way I was when I was five, I'd be really happy.

At that age I hadn't a care in the world. Now I'm a mess