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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hikaru" data-source="post: 242554" data-attributes="member: 5553">Hm. From what I've read, it is closer to 25 years for specific parts (like a liver or a hair). We already know how to clone a whole body, but for moral reasons we still don't dare to do it with a human being to use the "corpse" as spare parts. After all, the brain would be cloned too.Cancer leading to immortality. Now that would be ironic. Though maybe no more than vaccination (= protection from a virus by injection of this virus (weakened, of course)).It could indeed be heaven as well as hell on earth. Something it would open to is space colonisation, though: not only so we can go on reproducing, but above all because the rich, who will not invest in space today because they know they wouldn't see any result from it before they reach the grave, would do so if immortal.No, immortality would be costly at first, but soon enough not so. Think about the evolution of computers, in that respect. Does it mean that it will become available to everyone, just as computers are today? Hey, that's another problem, but more on the social than on the technical side. Even if you could pay for immortality, the men in power may not let everyone access it. The costs may be voluntarily exagerated. Now, would this lead to a revolution? There are several science-fiction stories revolving around such a problem.But the person who created the HD knows how it works. So yes, here, you need to understand to create the technology, even if not to make use of it.Same here, if only because better would certainly become available later on. Or maybe we could all live in robotic bodies to "work" and spend or real lives in a shared (or not) dream (perfect virtual reality).We begin deteriorating in our early twenties, looong before the end of our "reproductive viability."We can clone life, that we still don't understand. On yet another level, if we can improve ourselves (thanks to nanotechnology, for instance, if we learn how to use it to make the information in the brain circulate better), the ancient "us" become a system less complicated than the new.If he was serious, why refusing to sell him the wands? Because he was not worthy? Am I worthy? Would you sell me the wands? Can I have a rebate if I buy both a wand of frost AND a wand of fear?They do, but that's a special rule: you become able to travel in time.</blockquote>

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