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Despite several thousand years of existence, immortality remains firmly out of our grasp.
Myths of the vampires, Elvis, fountains of youth hidden in deepest Africa...all don't exist and never did.
Right now, scientists across the world are still investigating the secrets of the Human Genome Map, the building blocks of life itself. Locked within our own genes and genetic makeup may be the key to immortality for the human race.
There are obvious disadvantages to immortality; seeing firnds die, places disappear, memories fade, illnesses affecting you....but suppose for one moment that immortality could be granted to everyone, not just a select few.
Would it be a good idea ? A planet full of immortals ? I don't think it would. What defines our lives is how we use the time we have, it urges us on to better things as individuals and groups, even nations. Without any limit on our lives the world could become a very boring place. Why bother doing anything, there'll always be a tomorrow !
Maybe at some stage then immortality would suit us, but I think we have a long way to go before we reach that stage, there's still so much we haven't done or discovered.
The scary thing is that at some point in the future, one of these many teams working on the projects surrounding the human genome project may crack the secret. Conspiracy theories aside, I'm willing to bet that there are a considerable number of interested parties that would silence or destroy that knowledge. And I'm not entirely sure that it woudn't be a bad thing.....
~~Belldandy~~
Myths of the vampires, Elvis, fountains of youth hidden in deepest Africa...all don't exist and never did.
Right now, scientists across the world are still investigating the secrets of the Human Genome Map, the building blocks of life itself. Locked within our own genes and genetic makeup may be the key to immortality for the human race.
There are obvious disadvantages to immortality; seeing firnds die, places disappear, memories fade, illnesses affecting you....but suppose for one moment that immortality could be granted to everyone, not just a select few.
Would it be a good idea ? A planet full of immortals ? I don't think it would. What defines our lives is how we use the time we have, it urges us on to better things as individuals and groups, even nations. Without any limit on our lives the world could become a very boring place. Why bother doing anything, there'll always be a tomorrow !
Maybe at some stage then immortality would suit us, but I think we have a long way to go before we reach that stage, there's still so much we haven't done or discovered.
The scary thing is that at some point in the future, one of these many teams working on the projects surrounding the human genome project may crack the secret. Conspiracy theories aside, I'm willing to bet that there are a considerable number of interested parties that would silence or destroy that knowledge. And I'm not entirely sure that it woudn't be a bad thing.....
~~Belldandy~~
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Despite several thousand years of existence, immortality remains firmly out of our grasp.
Myths of the vampires, Elvis, fountains of youth hidden in deepest Africa...all don't exist and never did.
Right now, scientists across the world are still investigating the secrets of the Human Genome Map, the building blocks of life itself. Locked within our own genes and genetic makeup may be the key to immortality for the human race.
There are obvious disadvantages to immortality; seeing firnds die, places disappear, memories fade, illnesses affecting you....but suppose for one moment that immortality could be granted to everyone, not just a select few.
Would it be a good idea ? A planet full of immortals ? I don't think it would. What defines our lives is how we use the time we have, it urges us on to better things as individuals and groups, even nations. Without any limit on our lives the world could become a very boring place. Why bother doing anything, there'll always be a tomorrow !
Maybe at some stage then immortality would suit us, but I think we have a long way to go before we reach that stage, there's still so much we haven't done or discovered.
The scary thing is that at some point in the future, one of these many teams working on the projects surrounding the human genome project may crack the secret. Conspiracy theories aside, I'm willing to bet that there are a considerable number of interested parties that would silence or destroy that knowledge. And I'm not entirely sure that it woudn't be a bad thing.....
~~Belldandy~~
Myths of the vampires, Elvis, fountains of youth hidden in deepest Africa...all don't exist and never did.
Right now, scientists across the world are still investigating the secrets of the Human Genome Map, the building blocks of life itself. Locked within our own genes and genetic makeup may be the key to immortality for the human race.
There are obvious disadvantages to immortality; seeing firnds die, places disappear, memories fade, illnesses affecting you....but suppose for one moment that immortality could be granted to everyone, not just a select few.
Would it be a good idea ? A planet full of immortals ? I don't think it would. What defines our lives is how we use the time we have, it urges us on to better things as individuals and groups, even nations. Without any limit on our lives the world could become a very boring place. Why bother doing anything, there'll always be a tomorrow !
Maybe at some stage then immortality would suit us, but I think we have a long way to go before we reach that stage, there's still so much we haven't done or discovered.
The scary thing is that at some point in the future, one of these many teams working on the projects surrounding the human genome project may crack the secret. Conspiracy theories aside, I'm willing to bet that there are a considerable number of interested parties that would silence or destroy that knowledge. And I'm not entirely sure that it woudn't be a bad thing.....
~~Belldandy~~
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