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Originally Posted by Tristan
1st - It's not my opinion. Font is here: http://g1.globo.com/fantastico/notic...-mil-anos.html
2nd - Go read some more about nano bots, researches are moving fast. They are even considered a cataclism weapon if used in wrong way and hands. This is not the stuff you see in regular TV.
Anyways I'm just sharing and not worth my time with big explanations. Just an extra hint, Scientific American has cool stuff as well... |
I hope you didn't think I wrote my last comment maliciously. When I write 'you' I write it to the readers (the audience), and not to the person who started the thread... though I do understand how you may have mistaken it that way, and I apologise if I did lead you to think I was attacking your post.
That aside, yes. Nanotechnology. A rapidly growing branch of technology... that is still relatively 'new'. And it will probably stay, for a very long time, only lightly incorporated into our human bodies. Why? Because we don't know about it. We don't know the long term effects of it. We don't know if prolonged exposure to them may cause severe effects on our body, or disrupt other parts of our body without us knowing. It is unfortunately to say this, but a lot of animals will die before they are ever tested on humans for such purposes. It is even more unfortunate to say that a lot of animals
have died already. And if you're using them to 'survive a thousand years', you're going to need nanobots to kill a lot of different diseases, and repair a LOT of different types of cells. We haven't even figured out how to repair nerve cells yet - cells which will most definitely have started degenerating after a century or two. I don't think that nanobots won't be able to solve that dilemma, I just think it's going to take a very long time (not due to just scientific reasons either, but a lot of ethical barriers you've got to overcome. It is pretty gosh darn hard getting ethics approval on the human body... unless you're in a third-world country... but then your main issue is surviving till 80, not 1000).
And then there's also the psychological issue as mentioned by the comments above. Who
wants to live for a thousand years? Who wants to see up to 50 generations of family and friends die? You'd go insane... and as soon as the person being experimented on 'opts out' of the experiment, that's it. You can't bring them back in, even if they've been doing it for 500 years, simply because it would be unethical otherwise.
So yeah... That's my thoughts on why I don't think it's going to happen. You'd need to jump a lot of ethical hurdles, and solve a lot of currently unsolved mysteries of the human body before we can even begin to test this kind of thing. I also think it'd be psychologically too much for one person to handle.
Thank you for the article though... I just think they've sugar coated it and added lots of rainbows and unicorns to make it appeal to everyone... which is common in the media lol.
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