Which advance will humanity achieve first? (poll)

Which advance will humanity achieve first?

  • Immortality

    Votes: 2 8.3%

  • Manned landing on Mars

    Votes: 22 91.7%
  • Total voters
    24
Pyan said:
I'm with Larry Niven.


A couple of points:
NASA's human spaceflight budget is about the same as the amount spent annually by Europe's football teams on player salaries.
NASA's total budget for all space activities last year worked out at less than one-twentieth of the money spent on cosmetics in the USA in the same year.

NASA budget: $24 billion: Cosmetic sales: $511 billion. Makes you think...
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...that all you need to do is tell women that extended periods in microgravity will smooth out wrinkles and retard the ageing process and we'll have a traffic jam of space stations.
 
By chance this nice vid came up from exurb1a about Mars. It's a tangent, yes, but relevant to the discussion


 
I would say that some form of immortality or extremely long life would happen before the atmosphere of Mars is turned into Earthlike conditions. There is speculation, supposedly based on reasonable expectations that the subsurface temperatures of Mars powered by geothermal conditions might be warm enough to support underground bodies of liquid water. That would make deep underground caves the prime real estate locations on Mars. Which is ironic because living in caves was one of the starting places for long term human activity. It took a while before the trans Atlantic journeys produced a profit. It would be funny if it took a hundred years to find something profitable on Mars. You don't have to go as far as the Moon to do zero gravity industrial processes.
 
Parson said:
if you count immorality as living an active productive life for 150 years or more.
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SIGH!!!! Of course I meant immortality not immorality. Freudian? I don't know but I know the latter is ubiquitous and the other physically unknown.
Justin Swanton said:
...that all you need to do is tell women that extended periods in microgravity will smooth out wrinkles and retard the ageing process and we'll have a traffic jam of space stations.
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Or... Let men know that free fall stimulate hair follicles to grow think and numerous.
 
Parson said:
SIGH!!!! Of course I meant immortality not immorality. Freudian? I don't know but I know the latter is ubiquitous and the other physically unknown.

Or... Let men know that free fall stimulate hair follicles to grow think and numerous.
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Sorry Parson - we just couldn't resist. Naughty of us, I know...

Mmmmh...."grow think and numerous". Acquire self-awareness and decide on strength in numbers?
 
What if something close to immortality has already been discovered?

If you had it, who would you tell? If it was cheap would you tell everybody?

What if it was a one time treatment that cost $1000? You could still charge $1,000,000.

What if it was $50,000 and had to be renewed every 5 years?

So if immortality is discovered we peons may never hear about it.

Has someone written that SF story already?
 
psikeyhackr said:
What if something close to immortality has already been discovered?

If you had it, who would you tell? If it was cheap would you tell everybody?

What if it was a one time treatment that cost $1000? You could still charge $1,000,000.

What if it was $50,000 and had to be renewed every 5 years?

So if immortality is discovered we peons may never hear about it.

Has someone written that SF story already?
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Somebody's written the novel. Trouble with Lichen by John Wyndham.
 
psikeyhackr said:
What if something close to immortality has already been discovered?

If you had it, who would you tell? If it was cheap would you tell everybody?

What if it was a one time treatment that cost $1000? You could still charge $1,000,000.

What if it was $50,000 and had to be renewed every 5 years?

So if immortality is discovered we peons may never hear about it.

Has someone written that SF story already?
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Just think! No retirement, ever! How much would you pay for that?
 
sciwriterPark said:
Will we need every resource to fight climate change before we go to Mars?
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No, I think we could fix the climate with large engineering solutions without destroying the economy. But someone has to actually do them.
 
'The Island', with body parts being manufactured for the rich could be seen as this? Also I think there was a Twilight Zone episode where all of the famous actors had had their minds transferred into artificial bodies.
 
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