Living to be 2000

[ms_ann_thrope]

I read somewhere today that the first person to live to be 2000 has already been born. I'm not sure I believe that.

 

[warrior queen]

Bloody hell!
What would be retirement age then???

 

[smoothg103rd]

I read somewhere today that the first person to live to be 2000 has already been born. I'm not sure I believe that.

It's me.

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

That's about when I'll be able to retire.

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

It's me.

I'm thinking 38 tops.

 

[smoothg103rd]

I'm thinking 38 tops.

Lmao. That's fucked up Ann.

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

Lmao. That's fucked up Ann.

You need to eat more red meat.

 

[smoothg103rd]

You need to eat more red meat.

I like my steaks well done.

 

[jezzilee]

2,000? I don't think so. At least, I hope not.

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

I like my steaks well done.

I read today that eating sausage and bacon is more likely to give you cancer than smoking.

 

[smoothg103rd]

I read today that eating sausage and bacon is more likely to give you cancer than smoking.

Well I eat both, plus I smoke.

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

Well I eat both, plus I smoke.

....36.

 

[smoothg103rd]

....36.

You forgot the 1. 136.

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

You forgot the 1. 136.

Methuseleh lived 900 years. Imagine being stuck with a name like that for 900 years.

 

[DesEsseintes]

The Universe, having in me at last made something noteworthy, would not be so capricious as to let me die.

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

The universe is so large it needs to redefine infinity every time it changes its mind.

 

[Mike_Yates]

I read somewhere today that the first person to live to be 2000 has already been born. I'm not sure I believe that.

I think that they are talking about uploading your mind into a computer.

 

[DesEsseintes]

The universe is so large it needs to redefine infinity every time it changes its mind.

The universe, like the integers, is merely a subset of infinity. Ask Gregor Cantor, or a tunnelling quantum circus.

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

The universe, like the integers, is merely a subset of infinity. Ask Gregor Cantor, or a tunnelling quantum circus.

I like to think of the universe as 1 of an infinite number of universes.

 

[DesEsseintes]

I like to think of the universe as 1 of an infinite number of universes.

Precisely. You might enjoy Olaf Stapledon's Starmaker on that theme. Awe-inspiring.

I may be in the wrong universe. There must be one where I get the girl.

 

[PayDay]

I read somewhere today that the first person to live to be 2000 has already been born. I'm not sure I believe that.

Rule #1: "Everyone is lying to you."

 

[DesEsseintes]

Rule #1: "Everyone is lying to you."

To you, on you - as long as everyone's comfy.

 

[PayDay]

To you, on you - as long as everyone's comfy.

You have no basis of proof for that, but they might be could.

 

[DesEsseintes]

You have no basis of proof for that, but they might be could.

I am more empiricist than rationalist. If it feels right, do it.

 

[BabblingBrooke]

I read today that eating sausage and bacon is more likely to give you cancer than smoking.

Well I eat both, plus I smoke.

Did you forget that this character doesn't eat pork?