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Originally Posted by jowey
It will happen, in order to interact with new environments.
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Possibly, but before long term exploration of other worlds you won't see much.
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The problem is that nut cases seem to be in power - we cant trust them to use these toys correctly.
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That's true of any great discovery going all the way back to fire.
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Imagine an immortal Bush, that declares himself emperor....
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First, our social and governmental institutions don't allow for holding office indefinitely. I've many times explained this in the 2009 marshal law
crapspiracies.
There's always going to be a speed bump to immortality. Suppose, that after upping human to two hundred year lifespans another innate trait causes death that hadn't been discovered because no one lived long enough to encounter it. Then, there may be more at 582 years, and another at a thousand, then still more at 1101, 1407 and 2343 years. Almost all the geriatric conditions we've uncovered in the 20th and 21st centuries were always with us, but rare to nonexistent because of the shorter human life expectancies. Plus new genetic enhancements may cause their own collection of medical problems after centuries or millennia later into that individual's life.