Can those living today live forever?

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yep, ignoring all that makes the discussion probably a bit more interesting but not very realistic I'm afraid...

Today?

In theory there is always a possibility about anything so I don't put absolution to anything that is still in question. What I question is...will I ever get to meet those that have already passed away and sometimes I don't want to know the ABSOLUTE answere to that...

Well if America fails we can always rely on Russias surpreme technology and space programs, which will be equally unlikely cause we never give them any respect Damn why does my country have to be so ignorent, some of the lies I've heard even from my own president about our Slavic neighbors makes me sick.

We could be thinking about different things, from what I've heard, Russia attacked Georgia, thus making war with its allies ie, usa, acting as "bullies" which is totally twisted. Russia was trying to prevent a genocide of southern Georgians started by its own government! Many of the southerners fled to Russia, thanking them for their hospitality. I found this out from a Russian, and later from articles that are not American of course. Then I told my parents about it and they refused to believe me, and told me "Russia is just a bully".. FFS..!

Some time ago I wrote a piece on this subject. So that I don't repeat myself here, I'll just post the link:

http://eng.ohmynews.com/articleview/art ... 1&rel_no=1

Yay, this is one of my favourite topics:)

I didn't read all the posts (yet), because I am so excited that there is a topic about immortality, I have to post my idea!
Since I know about death and actually understood the concept of life I wanted to find a way of not dying (I guess everyone thinks about it at least once in his/her life) and I found an alternative way of immortality. First of all I don't believe in god or in the existence of any other higher being, so I wanted a solution using pure science. Let's assume that physics is quite good enough to describe our world, the universe. The main concept in my immortality theory is that everything is built of smaller objects. The exact details are irrelevant, does not matter how the larger objects are built or what are they called or anything like that. Let's assume that the world is infinite large and the time is infinite as well. This means that there was something before the big bang and there will be something after an infinite long time as well. Now let's describe a person as a series of objects, in this case the objects will be the smallest objects in the universe. If there is no smallest object, i.e. everything is built of an even smaller object and this is true for every object (this is some kind of recursion) then take the smallest object that actually has an effect on a scale which can be detected by us. Assuming that the world is infinite large and the time is infinite as well the probability that there is an exact same series of object as me is not zero. This means that if I wait for an infinite long time (and after my death I have time:P) I'll exist again in the exact same state in the future, because the exact same series of object will be there somewhere. We simply look at the universe as a big random generator generating infinite amount of numbers and if it generates one specific number then that's a person. This also means that the probabiliy of you being 'resurrected' without that deadly disease (which killed you in the past) is not zero. Uhm, that's it, if you are patient you'll live forever:)

By the way there are a number of exciting side effects of this theory. This randomization is also valid of the world around you. You can be resurrected in an infinite number of different worlds, with an infinite number of special abilities, you can be rich, you can fly or anything which is physically possible:) In fact you can experience every possible thing in the world in infinite time.
The other side effect is that the past is infinite as well and probably you have done everything in the past.

Sorry if my english is confusing at times:)

There's only one kind of eternal life I'm interested in.

You assume that life ends with the death of the body.

Lau, though you don't realize it, you've taken an elitist stance, too.
You dissected what I wrote and picked out your choice words; and your logic denies the social order. Explain, if you're stance is accurate, clans, nations, governments, etc.
Would you give an assault rifle to a chimpanzee? After all, we are all primates - just because they can't build them themselves, doesn't mean the shouldn't have them!

What's this archaic idea nonsense? If pack mentality no longer applies - explain social groups. High schools are a good example.

You might think it noble to hold those ideas, but not everyone can be enlightened. What is advantageous to species survival about that? You seem to have this idea that sentience itself is a free ticket. It's not.
Entire species never evolve as one; they branch off. The ones that cannot adapt, die. If I were succesful, and if I were to just give the technology to anybody - you realize how cruel that would actually be? They would be but dependent pets!
This idea that all people have equal capabilities is mathematically absurd, and despite an appearance of nobility, the concept is cruel and short sighted.