[Poll] Biological Immortality - yay or nay?

[DarkWraith]

BMaker11 said:

TravenousMaximus said:
You all need to see this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GcL3a4WK6M

Do not underestimate what humans can achieve. The way we live right now is comparatively primitive to what we've discovered up to this point. Google (the company in which the futurist in the documentary now works for) spent half a billion dollars to acquire DeepMind, a leading AI startup, also created their own company called Calico for the express purpose of solving the "problem of aging," this is pretty serious business.

....also, time travel in theory is possible, but only when travelling forward in time - so no Marty's mom 1955 for you.

When you say "travelling forward in time", do you mean cryogenics, so you can exist as you are today 100 years from now, for example? Just asking since that is really "moving" through time. The only way to "move forward" through time would be to go....the negative speed of light? Since the closer you get to the speed of light, the slower time moves, and once you hit C, time moves at 0, and going faster than C would make you go back in time....so the inverse must be true to go forward in time.

But "negative" speed isn't real.

I'm not trying to be confrontational. Just a little thought experiment, per se 

the guy can correct me if he meant otherwise, but this is a relativity issue. he's not talking about actually moving through time negatively, he's talking about moving through time faster than someone else, say people on earth. were he to orbit a supermassive blackhole, this would be achievable. suppose orbiting a supermassive blackhole's time dilation would result in 1 year there = 2 years on earth. So in 100 years, he would have experienced 200 earth years.

Dulfite said:
Well, if this even was a possibility (extreme hypothetical) I would rather die and be with God and Jesus Christ than I would live on this planet for that many years. And I say "that many years" instead of forever because at some point, something Biblical would occur that would end this aspect of my existence and start the greater one. This is obviously my stance, and I don't expect many others here to agree with me.

the irony of this post is truly profound. this individual adds a qualifier to the possibility of biological immortality, while espousing an "option" of "god and jesus". the level of insanity involved in this jump from the actual possible to the metaphysical is incredibly telling.