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TrappedTime

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The Future Of America...

Living forever, eh? I was watching "Curiosity" by Discovery channel, and it was about how science is working on/improving ideas that can make humans live forever. One of the tasks was so simple, it almost made me laugh at how we didn't see it before.

When we get old, white blood cells die/don't work anymore. Medics then transfer your blood into a machine that has proteins in it. Those proteins latch onto the "old" white blood cells. They have metal on them, though. Now, the blood passes through another tube, and there are magnets in one half. The blood without the old white blood cells goes back into the body and voila; anti-aging.

But my only contradiction is that if your body is getting older, then won't those white blood cells (that aren't dead) still age? You should really check out the show, it's amazing what science is doing... and they're doing it RIGHT NOW. The future is close my friends, really close.

But you stop and wonder... in the future... when science has done everything possible... what's after that? Does America stop advancing? Will Japan always be ahead of us? Or will they too fall into the same stop? The future of the future is a tricky idea to think about because you don't know what/how science will advance after they've done almost everything there is to be done. Maybe they'll go insane and start messing with gases, taping them and posting vids on youtube. Maybe they'll stop and write a 10`000 page book on the history of all science ever done... My folks; once we reach the future... what's after that?

Maikel

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Our Scientific knowledge will stop at a point, And I'll tell you where it will.

Once we hit a type 2 civilization, We're done. We're not getting passed that.

TrappedTime

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Well considering(and this will contradict my statement, but argue yours) that science can advance, we might be able to harness power more than one start. Maybe not an entire galaxy, but definitely something bigger than a star.
Nice analogy, though; I've never heard of that term.

Burnett

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LoL future of England is known,as in Eddsworld said.WTFuture

a3person

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Yea I agree that the future is soon tomorrow is today's future I wonder what new topics it holds.

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Baticon

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This is breaking the Natural rules and go agaisnt the God.I don't think it is good.
By the way,there can be bad things,
*You would fall into a pit and you would stay there forever. (Wizs of waverly. )
*You would see all your friends and family members dying.So sad.

P.S. And science is getting more harmful for human everyday.

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Sabrillian

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This is breaking the Natural rules and go agaisnt the God.I don't think it is good.
By the way,there can be bad things,
*You would fall into a pit and you would stay there forever. (Wizs of waverly. )
*You would see all your friends and family members dying.So sad.

P.S. And science is getting more harmful for human everyday.

Science is getting more harmful for humans everyday? Where do you hear this kind of crap? It's not getting more harmful, it's helping the human race advance. Something tells me you're just believing whatever somebody tells you.

treejoe4

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it would take at least another thousand years to be to be finished

TrappedTime

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To add a bit school-biology knowledge here:

According to the Hayflick limit a cell cannot divide inifinite times. So every cell will die at some point. So the flaw with the stated technique would be (from my point of view) that the dead of cells is not prevented and infinite-life is still not reached... I doubt that it is that easy to make someone immortal. But still, the process you describe is very interesting. ;-)

Guess what. They even covered that. They basically said in one episode that humans can regenerate whatever body parts they want. EVEN THE BRAIN. As you should know, the brain shrinks over time. Go watch the show to fill in your "gaps".

Burnett

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Why you guys talking about this?

Sabrillian

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Why you guys talking about this?

Because we find it interesting?

JadElClemens

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once we reach the future... what's after that?

The future.

This is breaking the Natural rules and go agaisnt the God.I don't think it is good.

Not everyone is religious

P.S. And science is getting more harmful for human everyday.

How so?

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Garfield2436

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How can people say that the future will be something something if they don't have a future type of orb or something

a3person

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Just think if technology increases so fast our life spans could increase and steady increasing of life span could equal un-limited life span.

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Greenzoid2

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This sort of relates to the topic, I think:

I saw this one episode of William Shatner's Weird or What?, and it talked about a 10 year old boy who had his entire finger cut off by something, I can't remember the exact details, but about 2 months later, his entire finger had grown back to it's regular size and shape, you couldn't tell that anything had happened to it.

The show is kinda weird, because it has no answers for anything(lol), but it sort of talked about what it would be like if we could figure out how to control the ability to grow back body parts like that. Who knows what the future holds.

Very interesting topic.

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32OrtonEdge32dh

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They can make artificial muscles out of nanotubes now.

Just thought that you all might find that interesting.

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Burnett

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WTFuture is enough.The future is not going good.That's all.

Muffin

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As long as they don't mix the wrong chemicals and make the future bad...

a3person

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If the get rid of all the burning of fossil fuels and replace it with solar power that can capture 100% of the light shown at it then we should be fine with pollution problems.

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Tako

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The future of America will be horrible until the geniuses over in DC decide that education is of prime importance. The children are the future.

The condition of my county's education disgusts me. Probably because of the Civil War (Yes, something that happened so long ago affects us today) sending the former slave-states into an even worse economy than the rest of the country, dragging the education system down with it.

The economy? I blame the IRS and Federal Reserve. Toss them both; we survived perfectly well without them. Actually, we had a better economy without them. Funny.

Thomas Jefferson said:

To preserve our independence we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our choice between economy and liberty or profusion and servitude. I place economy among the most important and republican virtues, and public debt is the greatest of the dangers to be feared. It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. [...] If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their money, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of their property until their children wake up homeless on the very continent their fathers conquered!

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Yeah, well, you know that's just like, uh, your opinion, man.