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randome

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33. Having personal physicians monitor your health on a daily basis...

Reply to TlalocW (Reply #30)

Mon Oct 21, 2013, 08:02 PM

Oct 2013

...isn't something the rest of us can have. But the experiment may prove illuminating.
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Google executive plans to live forever [View all] LiberalElite Oct 2013 OP

Future headline - next week: Cooley Hurd Oct 2013 #1

Actually hit by a bus. trumad Oct 2013 #4

Wonder if Rob Schneider is his supplier.... Buddha_of_Wisdom Oct 2013 #18

Yeah how nice, but you are still going to die from old age. Rex Oct 2013 #2

But if we all lived for thousands of years... randome Oct 2013 #6

True that, but you will still die one day. Rex Oct 2013 #8

Kurzweil is no Linus Pauling, though. randome Oct 2013 #10

I predict to nowhere or are there already studies that show Rex Oct 2013 #12

Maybe they are among us now and we just don't know! randome Oct 2013 #15

Well I wish him luck, I could never swallow that many pills a day. Rex Oct 2013 #17

I'm waiting for Cory Doctorow's "Bitchin' Society" and its "cure for death." Pab Sungenis Oct 2013 #9

I'm shooting for Futurama. Rex Oct 2013 #13

Why stop with just one clone per body? NuclearDem Oct 2013 #32

What's more likely - bio-engineered immortality or digital mind copying? nt el_bryanto Oct 2013 #3

The first one. randome Oct 2013 #7

bio-engineered mind copying seveneyes Oct 2013 #27

Pft. He's getting older and will be dropping singularities in his Depends Dreamer Tatum Oct 2013 #5

If he freezes himself he'll get to live in "Futurama" Blue_Tires Oct 2013 #11

Hmmmm. His vitamin regimen is certainly more complex than my daily "One-a-Day Mens". Nye Bevan Oct 2013 #14

Looks like a lot of Omega 3. Rex Oct 2013 #16

He'll end up part of the Stinkularity if he's not careful . . . hatrack Oct 2013 #19

Poor fool malaise Oct 2013 #20

That man has the most expensive urine in the world TlalocW Oct 2013 #21

I don't think 'vitamins' means the same thing to him as it does to us. randome Oct 2013 #22

Still, I bet it's still pricey. TlalocW Oct 2013 #30

Having personal physicians monitor your health on a daily basis... randome Oct 2013 #33

He sure made some awesome keyboards though. cemaphonic Oct 2013 #23

What terrifies me is the possibility of an elite living for centuries, while most of us are left.... LongTomH Oct 2013 #24

Seriously, there is a great sci-fi premise there. Nye Bevan Oct 2013 #28

I'm really concerned that it could happen in real life! LongTomH Oct 2013 #31

Check this movie out.. RedCappedBandit Oct 2013 #35

No different from hereditary dynastys. The faces change, the oppression stays the same. Ikonoklast Oct 2013 #39

As long as he doesn't start drinking liquified babies or something... bhikkhu Oct 2013 #25

I figure that once I exceed the age at which my father passed, in my mind, I will be playing bluestate10 Oct 2013 #41

This guy wrote a book that inspired me to pursue math and computer science mathematic Oct 2013 #26

He even did a movie... SummerSnow Oct 2013 #29

He does know this was a cartoon, right? DJ13 Oct 2013 #34

He won't make it. Too old. DireStrike Oct 2013 #36

Why would a person want to live forever? Living forever would bore me shitless. bluestate10 Oct 2013 #37

Easy way around that. randome Oct 2013 #38

one problem with extending one's natural life indefinitely... 0rganism Oct 2013 #40