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Will we ever achieve immortality or at least greatly extend our lifespan?

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I just want to explore the universe but without FTL spaceships I would need to stay alive for a very long time

:deeper-sadness:

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Des [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.net
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or we get FALGSC future where death becomes a socially and culturally pressured choice where those that choose immortality are considered weird and quirky.

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TankieTanuki [he/him]@hexbear.net
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Thanks to denial, I’m immortal.

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Omega_Haxors [they/them]@hexbear.net
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That only works up until 14.

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steve5487 [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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just get better at denial

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Omega_Haxors [they/them]@hexbear.net
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I live in denial every single day that things are going to get better :sadness-abysmal:

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TankieTanuki [he/him]@hexbear.net
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Fourteen lives? I’ll take it.

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space_comrade [he/him]@hexbear.net
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I wouldn’t exactly bet on immortality but it’s not out of the question that we’ll have the technology to extend our lifespan by quite a bit.

It’s not gonna be for your personally though, just for rich people.

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AlephNull [she/her]@hexbear.net
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Inshallah

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glk [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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To my knowledge nothing so far discovered has extended our lifespan. So far we’ve only figured out how to stop a lot of things from prematurely ending a life.

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Bluegrass_Buddhist [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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Anti-aging science is starting to rev up tbh. We’ve already effectively de-aged rats and cell cultures. Extrapolating that to humans is a ways off, but not impossible by any means.

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