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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	The word "immortality" is being misused a bit here, as it general is. Technically speaking, "immortal" means "undying." Generally, though, it is used to mean the type of immortality that Highlanders and Tolkien elves possess--not subject to aging, but able to die through other methods. What we're really talking about here, I think, is being able to stop or overcome the effects of aging. Even if we were to make life completely safe, we still wouldn't be immortal, because we could still be killed. Anyway, I would tend to agree with reisio--I don't really see any reason why we would not eventually be able to overcome the effects of aging in one way or another. Whether or not our planet would be able to support the accompanying population growth is another story--plenty of areas are having a hard enough time as it is with people dying in (on average) well under a century. [Edit: Oh, I didn't watch the TED video either. Sorry.] [img]http://www.liminality.org/asylum/sigs/quickie.gif[/img] ___________________________ Suho: [url=http://www.liminality.org]www.liminality.org[/url] \| [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/4837]Cell 270[/url] \| [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/5689]Sig Rotator[/url] \| [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/22173]the Fellowship of Sup[/url] [small](Edited by [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/user/2031]Suho1004[/url] on 03-02-2009 12:42)[/small] Loading...
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