Dude, who even knows.

26th November 2022

Question reblogged from Ring Like Crazy, Ring Like Hell with 594 notes

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

binary-bluejay:

kontextmaschine:

prudencepaccard:

kontextmaschine:

slartibartfastibast:

kontextmaschine:

No. Immortality has been “just a few improvements on the current state of the art” away for approximately ever.

Don’t tell the most recent immortality cult about this. It would break their clichéd little hearts.

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.

“In 16th Century Spain with the whole Fountain of Life thing it was fucking western hemisphere cartography” holy shit this is 100% right

This post was one of the ones that “made me” early on

Incredibly stupid to equate biotech with any of these other things but go off I guess.

the current thing is different, you see

Tagged: same as it ever was

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