Just the other week, I was having a conversation with a group of friends about what I’d rather have: the ability to teleport or live forever. I choose teleportation. So when I ran across this story this weekend about scientists having successfully transported matter, my dream had just gotten one step closer to reality. I doubt I’ll be alive by the time we get all Star Trek and have these transporter rooms in every supermarket (shit, I wonder if I’ll be alive to see that damn high speed train here in the valley) but the prosepct that we’re actually getting there: that’s almost enough. C’mon, let’s speed this thing up, scientists! I got places to see before I die! [via Aintitcoolnews]
I remember this discussion. I chose to live forever, that way I’d have plenty of time to invent teleportation or wait for someone else to invent teleportation. Muhahaha!
But you’d be so old & frail and all your friends who didn’t choose immortality would be dead. I don’t know man…..
Did you learn nothing from the Highlander movies?
“I watched the Highlander movie. It was shit!!”
“Overnight parts from Japan” will be known as “Same Day parts from Japan” FTW. TFATF will never die, man.
Living forever owns. I can wait for overnight parts.
I’ll take immortality, sorry. In Star Trek when the transporter energized, it destroyed your original pattern and when you were beamed wherever, a new pattern was created based upon what was stored in the computer’s memory banks at the time of transportation. So in essence you aren’t really yourself anymore, but a clone of yourself with the same memories.
Sad that I know all this, huh?
HOOLLLEEEE SHITT! That just blew my mind!
If immortality allows you to live the rest of your life at a predetermined age, such as 30, then I say okay. If not, then I say we adopt a lifestyle similar to the one set forth in Logan’s Run.
That would mean that I would not be typing this because I would be dead. Or the alternative would be to somehow euthanize old people because old people suck.
Was Highlander shit or just outdated? I have it somewhere on VHS. It has been years since I’ve watched it.