on a plane a couple days ago i sat next to this indian man who was very friendly. he asked a lot of questions about me, told me about himself, smiled a lot.
a little bit before our plane landed he informed me, with a big, earnest smile, that the world was absolutely going to end on dec 12 2012
i said "i hope not" amd asked him what he thought i should do about it
his advice was pretty good, i thought. he basically just said--"nothing! enjoy your two years. there's nothing you can do, so just enjoy the time you have left." he himself was flying a lot more, seeing his kids and family constantly and basically doing whatever he felt like. i don't know what he'll be thinking on dec 13 of that year, but for now he seems to be having a blast.
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IN THE FUTURE all the highest jobs are held by 100+ year old septuagenarians. Still sharp, but still old and bigoted in their own future ways. As the number of oldsters rises, births decline and America develops a curious interest in youth not too dissimilar from what is now seen in Japan. Advertisements will always be adorned by comely young women, but there is a marked increase in public imagery displaying children. The new immigrants are neither Latino nor Asian, but African. They do not get along with native-born African-Americans. Ascots and facial hair are in fashion for men, women wear wide-leg pants and t-shirts have moving images on them.
rolo I appreciate you taking my poorly worded and kind of silly way of asking these questions seriously
Really shoe it's not anything either of us will live long enough to see, I don't think.
It's an incredibly delicate and time consuming process to make any kind of engineered DNA work in ways that nature hasn't already perfected. Every cell in your body is the product of a few hundred million years of trial and error to see what works and what doesn't, and they all fit together and balance each other out.
Most likely what our generation will see out of this is the ability to fix a few problems related to replacing body parts that have gone bad prematurely, and fixing a few developmental diseases that healthy humans avoid naturally.
It's also really, really expensive to do this on anything more than a tiny experimental scale, so for the most part any treatments and cures will be restricted to a few research cases and a couple of aging multi-millionaires. The rest of us will just read about it in the news from time to time.
no I actually think we'll end up destroying all life well before any of this comes into play
no
believe me I wouldn't mind being proven wrong
unless we make an intentional and concerted effort to wipe out all life on Earth, microbes are hardy enough that they'll survive whatever we can throw at them
rolo I appreciate you taking my poorly worded and kind of silly way of asking these questions seriously
Really shoe it's not anything either of us will live long enough to see, I don't think.
It's an incredibly delicate and time consuming process to make any kind of engineered DNA work in ways that nature hasn't already perfected. Every cell in your body is the product of a few hundred million years of trial and error to see what works and what doesn't, and they all fit together and balance each other out.
Most likely what our generation will see out of this is the ability to fix a few problems related to replacing body parts that have gone bad prematurely, and fixing a few developmental diseases that healthy humans avoid naturally.
It's also really, really expensive to do this on anything more than a tiny experimental scale, so for the most part any treatments and cures will be restricted to a few research cases and a couple of aging multi-millionaires. The rest of us will just read about it in the news from time to time.
yeah I know none of this stuff is right around the corner
no I actually think we'll end up destroying all life well before any of this comes into play
no
believe me I wouldn't mind being proven wrong
unless we make an intentional and concerted effort to wipe out all life on Earth, microbes are hardy enough that they'll survive whatever we can throw at them
no I actually think we'll end up destroying all life well before any of this comes into play
no
believe me I wouldn't mind being proven wrong
unless we make an intentional and concerted effort to wipe out all life on Earth, microbes are hardy enough that they'll survive whatever we can throw at them
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gotta finish that
no
build a peaceful agrarian society
grow dragontrees and once the dragons hatch, fly them to the sun
the world as a perpetual third world detroit
angry bald dads from that 70s show and dead building husks
We'll be sure to let the terminally ill patients in the ICU know you disapprove of their urgent need.
I'm sure they'll only pretend to be marginally offended.
How could any world involving Jean Claude Van Damme possibly be considered a bad thing?
civilization maybe
I wish I could see the future
i'd buy that for a dollar!!!!
a little bit before our plane landed he informed me, with a big, earnest smile, that the world was absolutely going to end on dec 12 2012
i said "i hope not" amd asked him what he thought i should do about it
his advice was pretty good, i thought. he basically just said--"nothing! enjoy your two years. there's nothing you can do, so just enjoy the time you have left." he himself was flying a lot more, seeing his kids and family constantly and basically doing whatever he felt like. i don't know what he'll be thinking on dec 13 of that year, but for now he seems to be having a blast.
with robit watson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85cL1HisrNc
IN THE FUTURE.
believe me I wouldn't mind being proven wrong
Or you know, none of this could happen so
people love living, even if it means amongst shit
the same classes, skills and worldviews will remain
they'll just be polarized
hell, we'll probably still have a good idea of how it all went shit, too. i mean, it's the information age
Really shoe it's not anything either of us will live long enough to see, I don't think.
It's an incredibly delicate and time consuming process to make any kind of engineered DNA work in ways that nature hasn't already perfected. Every cell in your body is the product of a few hundred million years of trial and error to see what works and what doesn't, and they all fit together and balance each other out.
Most likely what our generation will see out of this is the ability to fix a few problems related to replacing body parts that have gone bad prematurely, and fixing a few developmental diseases that healthy humans avoid naturally.
It's also really, really expensive to do this on anything more than a tiny experimental scale, so for the most part any treatments and cures will be restricted to a few research cases and a couple of aging multi-millionaires. The rest of us will just read about it in the news from time to time.
but still, shit'll go bonkers
or, it'll all be cool and i'm rocking star trek gear. the third one would own
i think that humanity knows better than to wipe itself out completely.
also it's fucking depressing how many people are going to take that statement as naive and overly optimistic.
anyways fatalism never helps!
unless we make an intentional and concerted effort to wipe out all life on Earth, microbes are hardy enough that they'll survive whatever we can throw at them
if it was going to happen it would've already happened a whole shitton of times
yeah I know none of this stuff is right around the corner
but it is interesting to think about
fine
all the people, then
how do you think humanity could prevent at least the 3rd and 4th from happening or are you convinced it's set in stone at this point.
oh most definitely
It's so OBVIOUS!
unless
I'm not thinking we're going to have a nuke party or anything
it's a combination of economic and political and environmental factors
most of which nobody is doing anything meaningful to prevent
if pollutants try to get in i'll hit them with a blowdart (blowdarts = weapons of future)
hahahah
I think there are meaningful things being done!
on small scales because they don't make money...
still i think it's not too late to change. eh. we'll see how things turn out.