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    Do you think that we will ever be so advanced that we create eternal life?

    in Off the Wall

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    Little Billy was the fattest kid in his class
    Always the last in line
    All the other little kids would laugh at him
    Said he'd die before his time

    Ha ha ha ha
    Ha ha ha ha
    Little Billy didn't mind

    Most of the kids smoked cigarettes
    Just to prove that they were cool
    The teacher didn't know about the children's games
    And Billy always followed the rules

    Ha ha ha ha
    Ha ha ha ha
    Little Billy didn't mind

    Billy was big on the outside
    But there's an even bigger man inside
    Ten million cigarettes burning every day
    And Billy's still doing fine

    Now Billy and his classmates are middle-aged
    With children of their own
    Their smoking games are reality now
    And cancer's seed is sown

    Ha ha ha ha
    Ha ha ha ha
    Little Billy's didn't mind

    Most of them smoke maybe forty a day
    A habit Billy doesn't share
    One by one they're passing away
    Leaving orphans to Billy's care

    Ha ha ha ha
    Ha ha ha ha
    Ha ha ha ha
    Little Billy doesn't mind

    Ha ha ha ha
    Ha ha ha ha
    Little Billy's doing fine

     

     

    Do you think that we will ever be so advanced that we create eternal life?

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    On 8/25/2023 at 5:30 AM, Royale with Cheese said:

     

    You're not doing a very good job of wading because you're still getting kicked.

     

    Brian Cox, PhD in Particle Physics from the University of Manchester, believes it's possible.  Let me guess...he's stupid

     

    https://www.iflscience.com/professor-brian-cox-predicts-it-wont-be-long-before-humankind-achieves-immortality-44111

     

    "I don't think people's minds are different from computers because that would imply there's something non-physical about them," he continued.

    True (or strong) AI – machines that are at least as capable and flexible as humans – is possible, he says, according to the laws of quantum mechanics. But we're not quite at a point where we can build the equivalent of a human brain on a computer just yet. "I think we are at a cockroach level of simulating the nervous system right now."

    Another believer in the death-defying powers of technology is Ray Kurzweil, Google's Director of Engineering. In an interview with Slate in 2013, he told reporters, “I think I have a good chance – I would put it at 80 percent – of getting to the point where [life] becomes indefinite, because you’ll be adding more time than is going by to your remaining life expectancy.” 

    By 2045, he predicts, we'll be able to effectively "back up" our consciousness onto a cloud, allowing us to live forever. And it is worth remembering that this is a man with a prediction success rate of 86 percent. 

    For now, it all sounds like something out of a certain Black Mirror episode. Then again, it wouldn't be

    Okay, we're going to go into levels which go beyond your little google people- there is no such thing as eternal or indefinite in the actual realms of existences quite finite in computational terms, a.k.a. your, and my, life. 
     

    Please pass this along to your friends, so they can get some sleep and comfort themselves knowing that they thought of things.  

    Do you think that we will ever be so advanced that we create eternal life?

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    On 8/25/2023 at 5:29 AM, Augie said:

     

    I was responding to your assertion that Mars is an impossible goal for “stupid people” to dream about, and you responded about the premise of eternity. You can’t just change the topic like that and not expect a response. 

     

    I’m not even sure the universe will last for eternity, therefore humanity stands no chance of eternity. But I’m just stupid enough to not rule out what mankind might accomplish while we are still around. 

    Since this was the only post I had in the topic, I'm assuming this is the one where I didn't refer to eternity?

     

    "Think about, what we worldly know, about eternal life.  Over the course of 'eternity', our Earth, and all the attempts we try to make Mars a new home, are just ego-hopehull-bull####. 
     

    There's zero probability humanity can turn Mars into a more hospitable planet than Earth- it's just stupid people dreaming about things, really. 
     

    god bless us one and all. "


     

    Please, I didn't just piss-ant change my stance, I thought the entire concept was poorly thought out from A to Zinc. 
     

    Want a truly scary conversation, let's talk about what eternal life looks like in the planet/galaxy/universe in which we currently reside.  Don't blame me, look at the one who's romanticizing eternity on a melting ice cube.  

    Do you think that we will ever be so advanced that we create eternal life?

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    On 8/22/2023 at 12:19 PM, Augie said:

     

    Just 100 years ago the automobile was starting to becoming popular in this country. Now we are driving remote control science labs around on Mars. Just 120 years ago the Wright brothers first took flight. It wasn’t too long after that that men walked on the moon.  School kids walk around with cell phones that hold much of the knowledge of mankind. I could not have imagined that when I was their age. 

     

    What might we be capable of in another 100 years? In 1,000 years? I would not be so quick to rule out what might be possible. 

    I will be.   First off, the concept of 'living for eternity', as we currently know it in the non-afterlife sense, is fanciful, but nobody who thinks it through could possibly want that.  Odds are infinity to one that there won't even be a place to exist in this eternity, then what for the rest of all time- earth certainly won't be here. 
     

    Have you seen this planet?   Given its time to shine, it's stunningly beautiful in so many ways and locations.  Making Ice Planet Hoth habitable, where we're looking for any scrap of water in the hopes to grow literally anything edible, vs. just taking care of what we've got- glaringly gorgeous, built amazingly for our existence, under our feet and in our nostrils, is astoundingly ridiculous.  
     

    I'm all for imaginative thinking, but when it crosses over into an excuse to trash my air, water, and the attainable beauty of this planet, then it's more stupid than imaginative.  
     

     

    On 8/22/2023 at 6:38 AM, Royale with Cheese said:


    When you woke up this morning, did someone kick you right in the balls or something?

     

     

    I've kinda had to wade through stupid people trying to kick me in the balls for much of my life.  You'll miss by at least a few miles. 

    What were your favorite cartoons to watch when you were a kid?

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    Mel Blanc, Warner Brothers... Bugs, Wile E, Elmer Fudd, Taz, Marvin the Martian, 'Rocky Curtains', the WWII propaganda, Yosemite Sam, the red hair-monster, Wagner. Pioneers, Pirates and Redskins, stupid ducks, stupid hunters, paranoid hunting dogs, there was just nothing left uncovered by these folks.  
     

    want one lump or two?

     

    Bugs Bunny/Looney Toons/Mel Blanc are  just untouchable imho.   Not to say others can't do great, but that is an amazing act to follow.   Stuff like Tom and Jerry was 50,000 miles behind.  
     

     Very Honorable Mention to 'Speed Racer'.  ***** amazing cartoon!!!

    It used foley instead of the traditional orchestration, so it was so... just... different. 
     

    Later they'd call it anime, but at the time it was just a cartoon set to sounds other than orchestral. 

     

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    Bills linked to Jason Peters

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    9 hours ago, SoTier said:

     

    Actually, the Bills were paying Peters low-end RT money -- and wanted to continue to do that -- even though Peters made the Pro Bowl and 2nd team All Pro at LT.  The LT whom Peters replaced left in free agency the next season and signed for more than the Bills were paying Peters IIRC.

    Classic Ralph at his football worst.  As soon as I saw the contract, I knew they undersold him as a RT and would switch him to left.  I think it took like 3 weeks, due to, cough, 'injury'.

     

    Ralph screwed this fan-base so many times over the years by hard-ballin' great players.  Can't blame Peters for bailing.  
     

    Look at this crap-  https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/dallas-cowboys/jason-peters-1179/cash-earnings/

     

    Always gonna love this play... I was so optimistic haha:

     

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    driverless car gets stuck in concrete

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    3 hours ago, Just Jack said:

    I had rented an SUV last summer, I think it was either a Ford Explorer or Expedition.  It had the steering assist, to help keep the vehicle between the lines.  Well, since I was working overnight, I'd be driving on the highway at 3am, and decided to try it out.  Had the cruise set, and would take my hands completely off the wheel just to see how it tracked.  It wasn't too bad, a little nervous when the road would curve, but if you did not put your hands back on the wheel after 30 seconds, it would turn off the cruise control.  Also, if you were approaching an exit where the lane would split, like the link below, it would try to follow the lines to the right, taking you off the highway, when I wanted to stay on. 

     

    https://goo.gl/maps/SEw1SKAZcXaPqm9SA

     

    With my gal having a Subaru, and her friend with a Honda CR-V, I've gotten to learn a bit about two of the cars I fear the most on the roads.  The CR-V has like 6 different displays telling you different angles of how you could be driving more fuel-efficiently. Between staring at all those screens, and trying to do your best on the gas, no wonder they're on my, 'Top Cars Likely to be at the Front of a Problem' list.  


    The Subaru has an unwanted assist for just about everything.  In an emergency and need to hit the gas to get around a danger spot- no worries, the Subaru will slam on the brakes for you.   (It eventually realizes you really meant what you're doing, and hopefully hasn't killed you in that moment.) Need to be nudged back into your lane- Subaru's got you covered... until you're flying off a cliffside on a sharper corner... too bad you got too lulled into complacency to realize you actually needed to use the steering wheel.  
     

    The lane departure warning is also a handy feature for pissing off your passengers.  We took it on a road trip after she first got it, and of course I'm testing out all the fun stuff.  It probably took about a hundred miles, but she was ready to blow from that lane departure warning chime haha.  That thing's been off ever since.  
     

    So if you're ever wondering why some drivers pull some pretty stupid *****, like slamming the brakes for seemingly no reason, it may be the 'ingenious' car.  Again, no thank you on self-driving vehicles, but I guess I don't have a say...

    driverless car gets stuck in concrete

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    14 hours ago, WhoTom said:

     

    I used to feel that way, but given the way many people drive these days, I'll take a car driven by artificial intelligence over one driven by genuine stupidity.

     

    That's funny, and I want to agree... buuut, first I'm accustomed to the stupid things other drivers can and will pull off, a computer can glitch anything imaginable at any moment- no way to anticipate anything as a fellow driver, cyclist or pedestrian.  Second, I don't trust anything from the brainchild of the Silicon Valley super-douches.  A small number of those self-serving weasels are being given carte blanche to experiment on our roads, and with the lives of every person who is in their thoughtless way... and the rest of us are just supposed to go along with it?   Other than (arguably) having a role in bringing medicine and technology together, I can't think of a single thing in life these genii have not made worse, or we couldn't have lived without their stunning advances.  
     

    Maybe it'll lead to something better eventually, but I honestly expect a nuclear war due in no small part to AI.   (Hopefully it's just because I liked the movie War Games as a kid,)

    Kids in their 20s and Early 30---worse then the panhandlers on the street?

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    On 8/8/2023 at 9:10 AM, mjd1001 said:

    I actually agree with what he said that for many a college degree is a waste. Well, not totally but it certainly isn't idiocy. It depends on the situation.

     

      Myself and a very close relative have college degrees and both of our jobs have zero to do with what we studied, and honestly it isn't even having 'a degree' that was an experiene that helped us.  He ended up having his company send him to school 'along the way' to take a class here and a class there, at their expense.

     

    Another 2nd cousin I have got a full engineering degree and then decided he wanted nothing to do with it and got a civil service job that didn't reuquire a degree. He put himself though 4 years of school because it was 'expected' of him.

     

    Even my wife had a 4 year degee, lost her job and was unemployed for a while....started a new career in a different field and worked her way back up through the industry and is now doing better than she was with her oringinal job with her degree.

     

    Again, it isn't a universal truth for eveyone either way. But I know plenty of people who were/are successful without a degree (or at least the degree they ended up getting) and I know more than a few young people now approaching 30 years of age that are still strugging with huge debt loads becuase of school that wished they would have gotten a job and worked up through it instead of college.

    I'm sure your crew had a great time in college.  Other people knew what they wanted to do going in, and others used the general ed time to figure out what would thrill them going forward.  
     

    Myself, I adjusted my major twice before settling in.  Many of the people I graduated with stuck to it as well.  (Communications- film department, and you've likely seen my work somewhere along the way.)
     

    I'll never understand why some people try to discourage other people from exploring life. 

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