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  • DodgyAgent
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    Originally posted by Ravello View Post
    Whilst I don't doubt that advances in medical science in the last 25 years have been mind-bending in some fields of research, there remains a significant number of illnesses for which there is still no known cure (nor in most cases any known cause either).

    The most prevalent category (aside from cancers) are neurological disorders, the treatments available for things like MS, ME, Parkinsons, Alzheimers have changed very little in the last 10-15 years and all seek to manage symptoms as opposed to reversing or curing the disease. Stem cell treatments and such like are still yet to be proven even in rats.. Typically, it takes 10 years to make available treatments proven on lab rats to human-kind ... That's if they do transition successfully.

    Additionally, the article you linked DA is 3 years old... The quack in question only has 22 years left to make good on his promises
    3 D printing will enable sad inadequates like SASguru to build themselves a bigger penis. the only problem is that it wont be needed to procreate anyway

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  • OwlHoot
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    Originally posted by SpontaneousOrder View Post
    Where did those numbers come from? The sun, as far as I'm aware, has little more than 6 billion years left before it dies.

    That aside, the earth will be too warm to host any water in closer to 1 billion years from now - no no life as we know it.
    WHS, and the universe will be "totally black" a long time before 10^200 years, more like 10^12

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  • SpontaneousOrder
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    Originally posted by SunnyInHades View Post
    Worse than that, the end of Earth and Universe dates have already been calculated.
    Zip, everything gone, everything accomplished in human history counts for nothing.

    "At 20 billion to 30 billion years, the sun will expand into a red ball and die, overwhelming Earth with the heat.
    Oceans will boil and evaporate, and other planets near the sun also will burn, leaving nothing but orbiting chunks of barren rock.
    <snip>
    100 trillion trillion trillion years from now, marks the end of all planets.
    <snip>
    And then, at cosmological decade 100, the dark era begins.
    Once the black holes have radiated away, the universe will consist of a diffuse sea of electrons, positrons, neutrinos and radiation

    1 plus 200 zeroes and the universe is totally black.
    "

    But, if humans can invent time travel ...
    Where did those numbers come from? The sun, as far as I'm aware, has little more than 6 billion years left before it dies.

    That aside, the earth will be too warm to host any water in closer to 1 billion years from now - no no life as we know it.

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  • MicrosoftBob
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    Originally posted by OwlHoot View Post
    in effect, but far less superficial and based on internal biochemically and biomechanically induced bodily changes perhaps over several days, even reversible sex changes for example like salamanders
    So we could blend in with Swedish lesbian nymphos for a few days

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  • speling bee
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    Originally posted by SunnyInHades View Post
    Worse than that, the end of Earth and Universe dates have already been calculated.
    Zip, everything gone, everything accomplished in human history counts for nothing.

    "At 20 billion to 30 billion years, the sun will expand into a red ball and die, overwhelming Earth with the heat.
    Oceans will boil and evaporate, and other planets near the sun also will burn, leaving nothing but orbiting chunks of barren rock.
    <snip>
    100 trillion trillion trillion years from now, marks the end of all planets.
    <snip>
    And then, at cosmological decade 100, the dark era begins.
    Once the black holes have radiated away, the universe will consist of a diffuse sea of electrons, positrons, neutrinos and radiation

    1 plus 200 zeroes and the universe is totally black.
    "

    But, if humans can invent time travel ...
    Humans can't even invent a decent frozen pizza, so the outlook is not good.

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  • SunnyInHades
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    Originally posted by xoggoth View Post
    Eventually we will return to the primordial soup.
    Worse than that, the end of Earth and Universe dates have already been calculated.
    Zip, everything gone, everything accomplished in human history counts for nothing.

    "At 20 billion to 30 billion years, the sun will expand into a red ball and die, overwhelming Earth with the heat.
    Oceans will boil and evaporate, and other planets near the sun also will burn, leaving nothing but orbiting chunks of barren rock.
    <snip>
    100 trillion trillion trillion years from now, marks the end of all planets.
    <snip>
    And then, at cosmological decade 100, the dark era begins.
    Once the black holes have radiated away, the universe will consist of a diffuse sea of electrons, positrons, neutrinos and radiation

    1 plus 200 zeroes and the universe is totally black.
    "

    But, if humans can invent time travel ...

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  • speling bee
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    Originally posted by DodgyAgent View Post
    None of you have any idea

    ...some tulip...

    Mail Online
    OK then.

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  • Ravello
    replied
    Originally posted by DodgyAgent View Post
    None of you have any idea. Considering the advancements in Science and technology over the past few years and that you people have been involved in these changes (by putting people out of work) it is likely that we will be able to control ageing and population, procreation etc etc:

    The first person to reach 150 is already alive... and soon we'll live to be a THOUSAND, claims scientist | Mail Online

    There's even a picture of EO waterskiing
    Whilst I don't doubt that advances in medical science in the last 25 years have been mind-bending in some fields of research, there remains a significant number of illnesses for which there is still no known cure (nor in most cases any known cause either).

    The most prevalent category (aside from cancers) are neurological disorders, the treatments available for things like MS, ME, Parkinsons, Alzheimers have changed very little in the last 10-15 years and all seek to manage symptoms as opposed to reversing or curing the disease. Stem cell treatments and such like are still yet to be proven even in rats.. Typically, it takes 10 years to make available treatments proven on lab rats to human-kind ... That's if they do transition successfully.

    Additionally, the article you linked DA is 3 years old... The quack in question only has 22 years left to make good on his promises

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  • DodgyAgent
    replied
    None of you have any idea. Considering the advancements in Science and technology over the past few years and that you people have been involved in these changes (by putting people out of work) it is likely that we will be able to control ageing and population, procreation etc etc:

    The first person to reach 150 is already alive... and soon we'll live to be a THOUSAND, claims scientist | Mail Online

    There's even a picture of EO waterskiing

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  • suityou01
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    Why does the tall one look like Ed Milliband?

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  • mudskipper
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    Originally posted by Bunk View Post
    Mmmm, Campbell's primordial soup
    FTFY

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  • Bunk
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    Originally posted by xoggoth View Post
    Eventually we will return to the primordial soup.
    Mmmm, primordial soup

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  • vetran
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    Originally posted by mudskipper View Post
    Was that one of your stories, or am I thinking of someone else?
    Actually I'm surprised some Academic hasn't started validating some of Xoggy's stories with numbers as this one seems to be based on an HG Wells concept over a hundred years old.

    Maybe you have to be dead to get real fame.

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  • mudskipper
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    Originally posted by xoggoth View Post
    Eventually we will return to the primordial soup.
    Was that one of your stories, or am I thinking of someone else?

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  • OwlHoot
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    Originally posted by Pondlife View Post
    You mean like hair braids and henna tattoos?
    in effect, but far less superficial and based on internal biochemically and biomechanically induced bodily changes perhaps over several days, even reversible sex changes for example like salamanders

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