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ourlovecanlastforeve writes: With biologists getting closer and closer to reversing the aging process in human cells, the reality of greatly extended life draws closer. This brings up a very important conundrum: You can't tell people not to reproduce and you can't kill people to preserve resources and space. Even at our current growth rate there's not enough for everyone. Not enough food, not enough space, not enough medical care. If — no, when — age reversal becomes a reality, who gets to live? And if everyone gets to live, how will we provide for them?
The question is not what the people will do with all the extra people, but rather what the robots will do with all the people.
If you don't mind dying from the radiation damage before we get out of the solar system... wait, that does help with the overpopulation problem....
You can't tell people not to reproduce and you can't kill people to preserve resources and space.
Well, with that kind of negative-nancy thinking, of course nothing's going to get done.
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Please our women wear far too much clothing.
So where are all the naked bitches at?
Item number one on on my bucket list
When I'm 59 I'll hunt you down and kill you. Fair enough?
It took him years, but he's finally made it half-way through Atlas Shrugged.
Required reading for internet skeptics
Or possibly, this already happened a long time ago, and that 1% is currently living in this manner, subject to some physical limitations, with the details of the longevity treatment coaxed into mythology to preserve the secret of its existence.
Two different longevity treatments were discovered independently and used by two different groups. The two groups are unaware of each other, and when presented with evidence, go so far as to vehemently deny the possibility of the other group's existence.
They were affected in physiologically similar ways; one notable exception was that one group cannot stand the sunlight, and members of the other sparkle when exposed to it.
Doctor to patient, after having given the injection: "I have good news and bad news for you:"
Patient: "The good news first please!"
Doctor: "After this injection, you're going to live for another 800 years."
Patient: 'Great! And the bad one!"
Doctor: "You'll have to stay at your shitty job for another 780 years"
Yea, just keep breeding here on Earth and shoot the occasional capsule full of people off into space.
Do you have any clue what it would take to keep up with a population increasing by billions of people? Do you want me to Godwin this thread?
Judging by Dick Cheney's attitudes and continued existence, they already do.