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Mazer · **Posted:** Mon Jun 27, 2005 7:25 pm

Yeah, it's news from Slashdot, shoot me (lol, try!)
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,15739502-13762,00.html

That'd be really exciting. Though it would suck to die and wake up far in the future with no memory and a huge hospital bill for your resurrection...

Neo · **Posted:** Mon Jun 27, 2005 8:08 pm

Quote:

Plans to test the technique on humans should be realised within a year, according to the Safar Centre.

Sign me up! Laughing

MihaiG · **Posted:** Mon Jun 27, 2005 9:05 pm

so that makes me invincibale eh? i shall go rob some banks now Twisted Evil

Dan · **Posted:** Mon Jun 27, 2005 10:54 pm

You know i whould love to shoot you drain your body of all it's blood, filling with an ice-cold salt solution, fixing, bring you back and reapeting. could be alot of fun.

Serriusesly tho, i don't know if any of you have had an IV b4 b/c they hurt like hell now chaging your blood and filling with salt??? This whould hurt so much i whould rather be dead. I assume u whould be out for this but still, owch.

Tony · **Posted:** Mon Jun 27, 2005 11:20 pm

Coutsos wrote:

That'd be really exciting. Though it would suck to die and wake up far in the future with no memory and a huge hospital bill for your resurrection...

Well not quite. The technique only preserves the tissue/organs, doesn't actually repair them.

You know how your TAGGGG sequence deteriorates during every cell replication? As soon as it hits that A, you're done.. That assuming that a hydrogen ion doesn't scramble your DNA and cause cancer sooner. So mortality is quite real. And while replacing tissue and even organs is already a common practice; repairing deteriorating neuron connections in your brain (or rather lack of ability to do so) is what keeps us dead.

The only thing worse then death is immortality anyways Laughing

Bacchus · **Posted:** Mon Jun 27, 2005 11:43 pm

[quote="Tony"]

Coutsos wrote:

The only thing worse then death is immortality anyways Laughing

I'll agree to that, It would suck being Immortal

brenn · **Posted:** Tue Jun 28, 2005 12:10 am

Tony wrote:

You know how your TAGGGG sequence deteriorates during every cell replication? As soon as it hits that A, you're done..

Telomeres ... (sp?)

Amailer · **Posted:** Tue Jun 28, 2005 5:50 am

How much you wanna bet this is gonna fail on humans? something like this always goes wrong o.O

Still... insane...and...weird...

Martin · **Posted:** Tue Jun 28, 2005 8:02 am

Hacker Dan wrote:

You know i whould love to shoot you drain your body of all it's blood, filling with an ice-cold salt solution, fixing, bring you back and reapeting. could be alot of fun.

Serriusesly tho, i don't know if any of you have had an IV b4 b/c they hurt like hell now chaging your blood and filling with salt??? This whould hurt so much i whould rather be dead. I assume u whould be out for this but still, owch.

Actually, you'd be dead for that one, so I don't imagine it'd hurt very much. I bet you'd be sore when you woke up though...

[Gandalf] · **Posted:** Tue Jun 28, 2005 3:09 pm

[quote="Bacchus"]

Tony wrote:

Coutsos wrote:

The only thing worse then death is immortality anyways Laughing

I'll agree to that, It would suck being Immortal

You quote Tony, but it pops up as Coutsos.

Who would want to wake up some time in the distant future anyway? What if there is no world or its all mutants or something?
I wouldn't take the risk that it might fail on me.

*EDIT* gah! whats the problem with quotes?

Bacchus · **Posted:** Wed Jun 29, 2005 6:41 am

lol

But ya it will screw up somehow on humans and cause some brain eating zombie race to come forth and try to destroy the world.

md · **Posted:** Thu Jun 30, 2005 11:29 am

Um... the key thing people seem to be missing is that a) it only works for an hour or two and b) it doesn't fix anything. This does not make you imortal, nor keep you alive forever; but if you get shot it could give them enough time to fix the holes before you die (and can't be revived).

The interesting things is; if you are clinically dead when this happens does that mean that the executor of your estate (guy with teh will) get's your power of atournee (sp?) while you are dead? Seems to me like the legal implications might be rather large...

Paul · **Posted:** Thu Jun 30, 2005 9:38 pm

Its like time travel, if it can work for years.

MyPistolsIn3D · **Posted:** Fri Jul 01, 2005 11:05 am

Thats awsome.

Tony · **Posted:** Fri Jul 01, 2005 8:04 pm

MyPistolsIn3D wrote:

Thats awsome.

That's spam. Evil or Very Mad

I'm liking that legal point Cornflake made. One can get away from certain responsibilities by being dead. Though despite what HHGTTG suggests, you can't just turn yourself dead to avoid taxes.

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