Have you wished to live for 1000 years so you could learn how things turn out?

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I've often wished that I could live forever just so I could learn how things turn out in our our universe, our solar system, our planet, and the Earth's populations. Being a curious person, it's always made me sad that I won't know how things turn out.

What results would you wish you could learn about?

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@BumbleBeeBoogie,

No fun living 940 years as an old man.

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@BumbleBeeBoogie,

Of course, the answer to this question will change demanding on my mood. But yes, I have thought often about the wish to live into the far future to see how things turn out.

I also daydream about being revived from a deep cryogenic sleep to the same effect as well.

But if old age was to be my vehicle, I'd hope it wouldn't involve spending several hundred years bedridden and near paralysis.

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@tsarstepan,

I would like to know how the earth's plates move around our planet. I found excellent possible plate changes.

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/planets/earth/Continents.shtml

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I have wished to live forever to see how things will turn out as well. But I havent abandoned that possibility yet =)

I am young, by the time I am an old man its possible that we will already have the technology necessary to extend our lifes beyond the natural limits, and possibily indefinitely.

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@BumbleBeeBoogie,

Of course, I would like to learn if there is life, especially human life, on other planets.

What about learning about "dark matter" and it's impact on the universe?

Is there more than one universe?

Does the universe expands so much that other stars cannot be seen from Earth?

Does great population destroy the earth?

Is a cure for AIDS discovered? Is a cause discovered?

Does a new ice age cover the earth?

Does our sun kill the earth?

Do earth's people travel to live on other planets?

Does the earth become governed by a single democracy?

Do humans still use wars to settle disputes?

Did humans rid themselves of ancient religious dogmas?

Does Oprah own all communication?

These are just examples.

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@BumbleBeeBoogie,

I too feel a little sad when I think that I might never know how things turn out.
Rather than live for ever, I prefer to hope for some afterlife where I might see how it all works.
I would also like to see how it began as well.

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nope, i'm content in my knowledge that it will likely all end rather badly

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@wayne,

wayne wrote:

I too feel a little sad when I think that I might never know how things turn out.
Rather than live for ever, I prefer to hope for some afterlife where I might see how it all works.
I would also like to see how it began as well.

That would be nice too.

djjd62 wrote:

nope, i'm content in my knowledge that it will likely all end rather badly

Grudge against the world, eh? =)

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@BumbleBeeBoogie,

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I've often wished that I could live forever just so I could learn how things turn out in our our universe, our solar system, our planet, and the Earth's populations. Being a curious person, it's always made me sad that I won't know how things turn out.

What results would you wish you could learn about?

Well hanging around for a thousand years just seems too damn long, BBB.
I certainly wouldn't want to do that.
I think I'd be very world weary by then!

But I would like to know how things turn out in the distant future.
Maybe return for just a quick visit?

Check out my avatar & you'll see what I'd most like to know about.
That's what concerns me most.
I'm hoping Kurt was wrong, but not feeling too optimistic about such things myself at the moment, I wouldn't bet on it.

Come to think of it, perhaps it might be better not to know, after all?

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I would like very much to see how it all turns out. Will Jeter make it 3000? Will Weiner tweet again? How will Oprah fare? Will we actually send persons to another planet? I would happily hang out another million years.

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@msolga,

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I'm hoping Kurt was wrong

Shame on ye, my hero Kurt could never be wrong. Smile

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No, I certainly would not like to live for 1000 years even with the blessing to stay say 40 all the time.
There would be too many friends to say good bye to, too many funerals, too many people to argue about" the good old days", too many hostorians, who would not believe me anyway, too many husbands during a lifetime.
But the result probably would be no friends and no relatives - I would have too much experience.
Nobody would care about reading my biography - it would be too long....

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@wayne,

But he said "we could have saved the earth ..."
Past tense.
Like the moment has passed.

I agree that he was very wise & hardly ever wrong.
(I'm a big fan, too. Smile

)
But I wouldn't mind too much if he was, this time!

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Funny how many people say they would become weary of life...

And what do you plan to do after your life is over? =)

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@manored,

Nuthin...You are dead, dead DEAD! Twisted Evil

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@manored,

but the possibility of death makes life worth living

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@BumbleBeeBoogie,

I'm interested in none of those, with the exception of HIV and I've read enough to think a cure for the present forms of the virus(es) are around the corner. What do you mean, a cause, the sins of mankind? - the cause is a contagious organism and we have known that a long time.

I am presently morbidly curious about what will happen about our bombing each other to smithereens based on false assumptions somewhere along the line over decades and centuries, but finding out would probably depress me, unless catastrophic storms have their way first.

I prefer not to know that the cockroaches will win.

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@BumbleBeeBoogie,

I'm aiming for 70, that'll be a decent span.

The thing is 1000 years wouldn't tell me how things are going to turn out because there's new stuff every day and I'd get greedy and want another 100o and then another 1000 after that just to find out what was happening to going to happen next. Consider the length of time the Earth has been and then realize you'd start wanting a million years.

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@Sturgis,

talk72000 wrote:

Nuthin...You are dead, dead DEAD!

How do you know that the dead dont do things? Have you ever been dead? =)

djjd62 wrote:

but the possibility of death makes life worth living

Why?

If death was impossible, would that make life worthless?

Sturgis wrote:

The thing is 1000 years wouldn't tell me how things are going to turn out because there's new stuff every day and I'd get greedy and want another 100o and then another 1000 after that just to find out what was happening to going to happen next. Consider the length of time the Earth has been and then realize you'd start wanting a million years.

Whats wrong with that? We live always moving from wish to greater wish =)

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