Undoing Aging

[Exhuminator]

Do you really want to live forever, as a human being on planet earth?

I assume at some point we'd go interplanetary and I can hop a ship somewhere else once I get bored with the Earth.

Do you honestly think there are no benefits to aging?

To the biological process of the body slowly degrading as you get further and further from optimal child bearing age? Yes, no benefits there.

Now, there are benefits to people dying, namely that we have a finite amount of space and resources and if people stopped dying that would put immense pressure on them. But those same population pressures would help the push to space, just like the other great periods of exploration and human migration.

If you're going to hijack and answer the questions I proposed to Overload, you could at least answer all of them.

[Glitch42]

Futurama mentioned that whole "we're lazy, so we'll only find a way when we're forced to" thing you were talking about.

Right now the worlds government should really be working on fixing the other things that are truly wrong, like holes in the ozone layer and gang shooting though...

[ElkinFencer10]

Aging is a part of nature. I don't want to sound like a hippie freak but its the way of the world. Just imagine if EVERYONE stopped aging... The world would be over run and we'd end up living in bloody Logan's Run. The population is already too vast for the amount of resources we are consuming.
Of course this relies off of the idea that if we stop aging we will live forever.
However perhaps we could stop aging but still die at age 100. Even then, I think we'd still end up in a bad 70's movie.

Hence the need to push for a human presence off Earth, and maybe some exploration of underwater dwellings. "People should die because otherwise they'll eat all the food" sounds like a terrible reason to me.

We could always have massive, mandatory Civ V tournaments, and the bottom 50% gets eaten. Like the Hunger Games, but with video games and cannibalism.

[Glitch42]

Thought of this thing as an idea for a story awhile back, about a society that is over populated (because of AWSOME healthcare) and so instead decides instead of culling those with genetic flaws ('cause they can't fix those faults) they just don't let them breed.
So there's that :\

[Ack]

Thought of this thing as an idea for a story awhile back, about a society that is over populated (because of AWSOME healthcare) and so instead decides instead of culling those with genetic flaws ('cause they can't fix those faults) they just don't let them breed.
So there's that :\

We tried that though. Look up California's eugenics laws and forced sterilization programs from the 1930s.

[Glitch42]

Thought of this thing as an idea for a story awhile back, about a society that is over populated (because of AWSOME healthcare) and so instead decides instead of culling those with genetic flaws ('cause they can't fix those faults) they just don't let them breed.
So there's that :\

We tried that though. Look up California's eugenics laws and forced sterilization programs from the 1930s.

Well I had this whole thing like that movie Gattaca with babies being genetically engineered and all that with future tech but hey whatever.

[MrPopo]

If you're going to hijack and answer the questions I proposed to Overload, you could at least answer all of them.

Are you really that upset I didn't mention my age? It's 30.

[BoneSnapDeez]

donating to SENS is a good place to start.

Sorry all my money is going to SNES.

[Exhuminator]

It's 30.

So at 30 years old, you still believe the only changes aging brings to the human condition are purely physiological?

[Glitch42]

It's 30.

So at 30 years old, you still believe the only changes aging brings to the human condition are purely physiological?

So your going philosophical on us are you? Or was that physical...