Yes, I would have to thin out a lot of humanity before it got started down the wrong path.
Yes, I would have to thin out a lot of humanity before it got started down the wrong path.
Milli Vanilli, Bigger than Elvis
end of time is frightening and also interesting.... also a prediction: the age of life in the universe will be so short it is totally irrelevant some planets harboured life in whatever form. a short hot period in the beginning and then most of its time cold and empty.
"the rest is silence" Hamlet's last words
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r.i.p. alleria. 1997-2017. blizzard ruined alleria forever. blizz assassinated alleria's character and appearance.
i will never forgive you for this blizzard.
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What the world has learned is that America is never more than one election away from losing its goddamned mindMe on Elite : Dangerous | My WoW charactersOriginally Posted by Howard Tayler
Will I age or stay the same?
Can I kill myself?
Nope. I suppose in some weird plot twist of B movie writing I might be the only person who could be given this form of immortality and sent back to save the world, but I'd consider it pretty much a suicide mission. My body would, by the conditions of the question, survive -- I doubt my sanity would, and whatever was "in there" after a few thousand years wouldn't be recognizable as bungee.Originally Posted by cubby
Evolution. La Braña 1 is only 7,000 years old.Originally Posted by cubby
He looks recognizable enough if the reconstruction is at all close, but consider:
Source: https://www.sciencedaily.com/release...0126134643.htmThe Mesolithic, a period that lasted from 10,000 to 5,000 years ago (between the Paleolithic and the Neolithic), ends with the advent of agriculture and livestock farming, coming from the Middle-East. The arrival of the Neolithic, with a carbohydrate-based diet and new pathogens transmitted by domesticated animals, entailed metabolic and immunological challenges that were reflected in genetic adaptations of post-Mesolithic populations. Among these is the ability to digest lactose, which La Braña individual could not do.
That's just going back a few thousand years.
Assume that this is a "tell a good story" science fiction scenario -- that somehow I don't have to worry about my teeth wearing down or the effect of thousands of years of sun on my eyes. Let's even imagine that I somehow keep my sanity and manage to handle the problems of thousands of years of memory. In a million years, the people who went back with me will evolve, both physically and culturally. After a few thousand years, I just don't see myself picking up cute girls in the bars and in 100,000 it would probably be like having a chimp walk up to them and start trying to flirt. Dating aside, at some point their culture and bodies would diverge significantly from mine. I might be cared for like a well worn teddy bear, but I have no reason to think I'd be relevant.
I'm a few weeks short of 60 yet (if I don't let the Chinese calculate my age), but I've already seen enough changes across the years that immortality holds no interest for me.
With COVID-19 making its impact on our lives, I have decided that I shall hang in there for my remaining days, skip some meals, try to get children to experiment with making henna patterns on their skin, and plant some trees. You know -- live, fast, dye young, and leave a pretty copse. I feel like I may not have that quite right.
Just ask this dude what that would be like.
Is your sanity also going to be immortal?
Sure, I would be game doing it alone. I may go crazier but I think I'll be fine.
One million years is just too long, no way.
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No of course I wouldn't. You'd screw up everything! And what fun is a world without dinosaurs and half a million years before Neanderthals appear? There's nothing to do, no events that I'd really like to see, nothing. The people and stuff you could bring with you, you'd have here too, so the only thing 'extra' is being immortal. I'd do it if cryosleep existed. I'd just bury myself in a frozen state, to be waken up a few thousand years in our current future. That'd be interesting, the future.The caveat is you must travel back 1,000,000 years in your own time line.
My bigger concern is about general injury. If NOTHING can kill me, what about being dismembered? Like, could you be chopped up into Monty Python's Black Knight and still live? Can you be torn to shreds by a savage animal? Do you regenerate? Do you just respawn? Do you just live, torn to bits?
Human progress isn't measured by industry. It's measured by the value you place on a life.
Just, be kind.
It depends. If it's the time travel where nothing changes the future then no. If the future can be changed then yes.
What I'd bring?
A lot of basic tools. Hammers, saws, axes, hoes, knives. Steel will be hard to come by since you'd have to mine for it and then smelt it. I'd also bring seeds. Today's produce is the product of thousands of years of selective breeding. Nothing back then would be on the same level of edibleness as today's food. Which seeds I'd bring I don't know since I'm not familiar with farming. I'd also bring books. Mostly survival and farming books. They wouldn't last a generation or two but I'd hope the knowledge would be absorbed and passed down before that happens.
Who would I bring?
I'd screen through people who are healthy, as little family/genetic health problems as possible, psychologically balanced, attractive(yes I'm vain like that), and willing to go. The way I see it this is a chance to start humanity early. Modern humans weren't around 1 million years ago so we wouldn't be able to reproduce with what's around. And depending on the interactions of the "future people" and the proto-humans humanity might not evolve like it did the first time, if at all.
What plans do I have?
I guess a "utopian" society. I know it wouldn't happen but I would guide it to the best of my ability. Once the society becomes sustainable I guess I'll just hang back and let it take it's course. More than likely everyone would get tired of my ass and kick me out.
You're not thinking big enough. All it takes for mankind to survive is 14 healthy genetically different couples who fuck on a schedule and their kids have to do the same, a bit cruel not allowing for love and disaster but that's the bare minimum. Can't remember exactly, was some article about how many people to send into deep space on a generation vessel. You are allowed to take 25 couples. That article said if I remember correctly 48 couples to allow for a 30% people disaster wipeout every few years.
So theoretically you could take as much knowledge as you could and start a civilisation on your own planet.
Would I do it? Nah, there's a reason I play WoW for the last 15 years
See immortality makes that difficult. If your immortal body doesn't need external resources to function, then a lack of those wouldn't induce a coma. You're more likely to be in a constant state of conscious pain without any sort of release.
Unless immortality includes complete manipulation of your body and sensory, I'm good with my mortal shell.
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