CERN announces new particle discovered. Consistent with the Higgs Boson.

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Also consider how people decays way more rapidly once they stop working. You may be looking forward to resting for a few decades, but ask any old person and they will tell you is freaking boring unless they have the health to try new stuff, which may or may not include another career or specialization.

Simply put: They're doing it wrong.

Retirement isn't for sitting on your ass and watching TV, pretty much doing nothing else until you die. Retirement is for doing everything you wanted to do, but couldn't because of work commitments.

[cidbahamut]

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Lulz, we live now longer than ever and yet society has changed more rapidly than ever before. What makes you think that the advancing technology and the longer life spans would stagnate humanity in any way? On the contrary, if you have more time in this world you have way more incentives to make and find new stuff to make your life interesting even if it takes a while.

No, it just means I have more video games to get through.

[Raydeus]

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Simply put: They're doing it wrong.

Retirement isn't for sitting on your ass and watching TV, pretty much doing nothing else until you die. Retirement is for doing everything you wanted to do, but couldn't because of work commitments.

That sounds pretty good, I hope you remember that when you are there.

[Malacite]

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This is one of those things I hope doesn't happen. Not for any religious reason, purely practical. Besides obvious population problems it could cause, old dogmas need to die with the old people that preserved them. We need people to keep on dying in due time so newer generations can prosper without old ideologies tying them down.

Also the secret to youth is exercise. Everyone wants a silver bullet though.

Now, I mean this with all due respect, but screw you, I want to live forever! (and not be an old gimp either).

But you're right of course, about there being all kinds of problems that would arise from such a thing - morality, food, physical space etc etc. I guarantee NASA's budget would go through the fucking roof if it ever happened as we'd have to seriously start looking at space colonies & terraforming Mars (which is entirely possible).


Then there's also the Starcraft route... yeah that option's none too pretty >_>

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That sounds pretty good, I hope you remember that when you are there.

Already have. Yay for retirement savings~

I guarantee NASA's budget would go through the fucking roof...

NASA has a budget again? When did this happen?

[Taskmage]

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An amusing metaphor for theoretical science.

[Firewind]

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Wait Day9 and Husky commenting on this?

Holy fuck Mal was right, Starcraft is happening.