World's only Immortal being.

[Rhyis.]

How baller would it be to eat a 1000 year old lobster.

[Colenzo]

inb4 jelly fish powered cars

[Kerberoz]

Fuck you Peta. I mean really. that lobster had the best life going for it there. It was well fed AND completely immune to predation at that place.

Seriously, let's release this amazing specimen back into the wild so it'll most likely get killed within a couple years! Because an arthropod really has enough awareness to give a shit where it lives.

[Heavencloud]

PETA acts like animals don't have natural predators... I'd rather see the thing live on (forever?) in captivity - especially since it's not a threatened species or anything, it's just a lobster.

[Charismatic]

How baller would it be to eat a 1000 year old lobster.

I like the way you think!

[Shojin]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0rGdChsMAc

[Nightplague]

new project! Make jellyfish-lobster-man! Steal them genes! Imagine what we could exploit without death from old age! I'm betting we could kill the earth in just a few generations

[Darus Grey]

Immortal animals...hm I wonder if we could do this. I wouldn't mind going back to baby form if I kept all my knowledge and just had to grow up all over again. Fuck puberty though, awkwardly trying to rub one out in my room before school and shit was so stressful.

Most people don't seem to know this, but lifespan enhancing drugs and treatments are a huge field of research.

The thing is, we already know it's possible, it's observable in nature, we just need to develop the treatments for it, and there's already been private trials for a drug that is supposed to add 10-15 years of natural lifespan by slowing down aging. The next step is to stop it, and then to reverse it.

It's not a question of If, simply when, and if you're under 30 now, it will probably be within your lifetime by current estimates.

Which of course is why I save 90% of my income, invest wisely and work a lot...I want to be able to afford to live forever when the time comes.

[Nightplague]

Living forever won't happen, period. I'm not saying it's impossible, but it would be a process so inefficient cost-wise that nobody would do it for more than scientific experiments; say, "regenerate" a tiny tissue sample.

Extending our lifespan with 20-30 years, sure. However, it will remain extremely expensive and only for millionaires.

Besides, would you dedicate your life to extending your life span? You'll loose more than you gain

[Uzor]

Living forever isn't even good.

I mean, if people don't die from aging, the world will get overpopulated fast. And then everyone will die from other reasons, such as starvation, lack of water, or lack of space to actually sleep, assuming you can somehow circumvent the other problems.

There won't ever be a way to be immortal. You still need to eat and drink. And if the medicine get expensive, it will become an issue of "who can afford it" and "Who is important enough to get the treatment". And I can tell you right now, people will not be happy with politicians getting the immortality drug because they're considered more important than the rest. It will start a revolution and war. No one want politicians that live forever, except the politicians.

[Pirian]

Air travel won't happen, period. I'm not saying it's impossible, but it would be a process so inefficient cost-wise that nobody would do it for more than scientific experiments; say, to predict weather patterns.

Short flights over small distances, sure. However, it will remain extremely expensive and only for millionaires.

Besides, would you dedicate your life to flying one of these contraptions? You'll loose more than you gain

[Nightplague]

Air travel won't happen, period. I'm not saying it's impossible, but it would be a process so inefficient cost-wise that nobody would do it for more than scientific experiments; say, to predict weather patterns.

Short flights over small distances, sure. However, it will remain extremely expensive and only for millionaires.

Besides, would you dedicate your life to flying one of these contraptions? You'll loose more than you gain

You can draw paralells to a bloody tomato (or why not just finding proof to god (god forbid)), and it won't be any more relevant. Any elementary school brat could do that

[Pirian]

If you can see then then maybe you can see why your statement is not a very well thought out statement. If there is profit to be made, then we will see it eventually. Welcome to capitalism? I don't really know what to tell you.

[Chun Liroy]

The problem with not dying from aging doesn't lie in monetary costs but rather all of the bad things coming from multiple organisms living forever as Uzor said. It's stupid to think that the cost would be the biggest problem to overcome.

[Pirian]

You seem to think that it would be available to everyone. Medical practices that were used in the 50's still aren't even used by everyone, lol.

[Chun Liroy]

You seem to think that science won't eventually find more efficient ways to work out the "immortality potion" once all the rich people have already taken it, thus living forever and they would no longer have customers.

[Chun Liroy]

I mean, not everyone will have computers they are too big too expensive and inefficient to become household appliances.

[Pirian]

Judging by the current population of the world - they still don't.

[Pirian]

I also think you're under-thinking the demand for this. I can't really see people who are seriously religious doing this, because well that kind of fucks with their whole "cycle of life"

[Kyte]

Living forever won't happen, period. I'm not saying it's impossible, but it would be a process so inefficient cost-wise that nobody would do it for more than scientific experiments; say, "regenerate" a tiny tissue sample.

Extending our lifespan with 20-30 years, sure. However, it will remain extremely expensive and only for millionaires.

Besides, would you dedicate your life to extending your life span? You'll loose more than you gain

Actually, provided there were government policies in place to ensure that we didn't become hugely overpopulated (which admittedly would require a massive paradigm shift), immortality or something close to it could potentially save money. Do you know how much people spend on keeping old people alive and healthy? Think of how much money it costs to put your grandfather in a home, and how many times he's been in and out of the hospital.

Furthermore, life-extension research will also likely have the side effect of producing treatments for diseases- perhaps even cancer.