I don't want to be immortal. But I wouldn't mind living a longer period of time maybe another 100 or 200 years, and stay younger longer.
I'd say yes to immortality under every circumstance,so that one ain't that bad
10 years ago, I would have said yes without thinking twice. But my niece would miss me so the answer is no today. Ask me again in 50 years.
This. Unless we're talking invulnerable immortality an infinite life span is risky.
Without it, you would pretty much be miserable until you died, probably relatively soon after you arriving back 1M years ago. 1M years ago, the average temperature was 41 degrees; you'd basically die of hypothermia day 1. Fall and break your leg? Enjoy never walking again unless you get lucky enough to set it yourself. Catch a cold? Better hope you can fight it off. It goes on and on.
Now, assuming we were invulnerable immortals, unable to feel pain, be injured, and able to escape any situation we'd potentially be trapped in (cave collapses can't trap you, falling into lava, you can get out, etc.) I'd do it in a heartbeat. The amount of history you'd be able to see and document would be amazing.
I would in a heartbeat. Imagine how much you'd be able to learn, even from an individual's perspective.
That's almost like asking "what if you got to live forever and also get something really amazing" like hell yes I would. Sure it wouldn't always be exciting or interesting but I'd literally get to watch the world form.
There's still some danger, though. Something like being buried alive would become a true purgatory if you couldn't die and couldn't escape.
Go back a million years?, I pretty sure I would go insane from loneliness.
This problem is stated consistently with immortality, but it was never something that seemed like it would effect me. I go weeks without talking to anyone and when I finally do it wasn't because I felt the need to, it just happened.
Go for longer periods of time without people bothering me seems like cake. Granted a million years is a stretch. But who knows how long you have to wait until humans come around, even in their infancy you could probably make it work somehow.
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So what happens if there is a landslide and I get stuck underneath or a large animal swallows me whole? Am I completely invulnerable to any damage and I have an "unstuck" button I could press that teleports me to nearest spawn point? Also immortality means I would outlive the planet and our solar system with the supernova effect in 5 billion years. If I have had enough is there a suicide option?
Last edited by GreenJesus; 2019-05-23 at 08:02 PM.
Yes, I understand that. My point is that his actual timeline stays exactly the same. He still goes back in time...but he doesn't fix his own timeline. He creates a new one.
Also, nobody knows what would happen with Time Travel if it were a thing that actually existed. Multiple timelines is just one theory among many.
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