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3dspacejesus asked: Do you believe that curing death or mastering cryonics will happen within your natural lifetime?
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slartibartfastibast:

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kontextmaschine:

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No. Immortality has been \u201cjust a few improvements on the current state of the art\u201d away for approximately ever.

Don\u2019t tell the most recent immortality cult about this. It would break their clich\u00e9d little hearts.

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Yeah the funny thing is how the “state of the art” consistently refers to whatever field’s particularly prominent and cutting-edge at the time.

It’s been alchemy in medieval Europe and ancient China, electricity in Revolutionary France, extremely low-temperature liquid circulation in the rocket age, data storage in the computer age, now it’s biotech because of course it is.

In 16th Century Spain with the whole Fountain of Life thing it was fucking western hemisphere cartography.

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