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Spastafarian

Here's my theory of a (kinda) scientifically viable afterlife.

1. You die.
2. Millions (or billions) of years in the future highly advanced alien lifeforms (possibly even highly evolved humans) come across Earth - now a dead planet.
3. They analyse the planet and extract DNA of every living thing that has ever died on the planet.
4. The aliens then Jurassic Parkily recreate all the humans and plant life they find - including you! They also somehow recover your memories with their amazing new fangled tecnology.
5. They find a new planet and create a utopian world for us all to live in forever (cos if you accidently fall off a tree or something they can just recreate you again).

So there you go. You die and then wake up in a heaven-like planet, with your long-dead granny baking you scones and all.
One thing though.. don't get cremated or you're f*cked.

Gorilla

Please, get some sleep.

slade_x

There is nothing scientific about the manifestation of an afterlife or postulating on one.

Moved to Religion

Dades

slade_x wrote: »

Moved to Religion

Super. Thanks a lot!

bogwalrus

is it actually possible to do a jurassic park job on things? if we did manage to find dna on another planet could we turn it back into whatever it was and learn from that species?

on a religious level (to keep things on topic) is cloning and this dna jurrasic park stuff anti-religion or is it more to do with morals? like there are loads of people who oppose cloning but on what grounds do they oppose?

Tomk1

This is more science ideology than religion.
Simply cloning that contains the memories of the last donor.
When you hit 70 you get cloned again as a baby and start of al over again.
Interesting idea.

Obni

Spastafarian wrote: »

They find a new planet and create a utopian world for us all to live in forever

Kinda depends on whether they realise what exactly was the most important species. They might understandably decide this was a planet inhabited by bacteria and viruses, with some other minor organic phenomena occuring from time-to-time, and never get round to poor old us. Or if they are biased toward the multi-cellular, we may find ourselves on the menu in some predator's utopia.:eek:

Bottle_of_Smoke

Everyone does realise the being they make out of cloning your DNA won't be you, yeah sorry but you'd still be dead & some copy of you in the future would be walking around.

No afterlife possibility I'm afraid

Zillah

Spastafarian wrote: »

they also somehow recover your memories with their amazing new fangled tecnology.

Clicky! Not so my good man! The light of science once again crushes a flight of fancy.

Bottle_of_Smoke wrote:

No afterlife possibility I'm afraid

Clicky! Not so my good man! The light of science once again births wild flights of fancy.

Galvasean

This is in A&A now.. Why the heck does every nutball with cornball beliefs (that arent mainstream) get chucked in here?

Fallen Seraph

Galvasean wrote: »

This is in A&A now.. Why the heck does every nutball with cornball beliefs (that arent mainstream) get chucked in here?

Because we're one of the only two forums on boards.ie that happen to be right about absolutely everything, I assume.

Zillah

Galvasean wrote: »

This is in A&A now.. Why the heck does every nutball with cornball beliefs (that arent mainstream) get chucked in here?

The mod usually feels personally offended by someone posting an innappropriate thread, and so, as a form of bitter revenge, they essentially throw them to the wolves.

Xhristy

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Spastafarian

Zillah wrote: »

Clicky! Not so my good man! The light of science once again crushes a flight of fancy.

Hmmm... crap! Ok, well then we'll just have to hope that we'll live long enough so that we can download our memories onto our PCs every morning after we brush our teeth. It'll be like creating system restore points for people. Then we can become robots if we die. Robots!! And we won't even have the unpleasant memory of dying.
By the way this really isn't the right forum for this thread.

Dades

Spastafarian wrote: »

By the way this really isn't the right forum for this thread.

Is there such a thing?

At least one thing you won't be short of here is an opinion.

Nerin

scientific reincarnation???
stargate did it.
sorry...

Spastafarian

nerin wrote: »

scientific reincarnation???
stargate did it.
sorry...

Pfft.. Stargate's not real.

Nerin

Spastafarian wrote: »

Here's my theory of a (kinda) scientifically viable afterlife.

1. You die.
2. Millions (or billions) of years in the future highly advanced alien lifeforms (possibly even highly evolved humans) come across Earth - now a dead planet.
3. They analyse the planet and extract DNA of every living thing that has ever died on the planet.
4. The aliens then Jurassic Parkily recreate all the humans and plant life they find - including you! They also somehow recover your memories with their amazing new fangled tecnology.
5. They find a new planet and create a utopian world for us all to live in forever (cos if you accidently fall off a tree or something they can just recreate you again).

So there you go. You die and then wake up in a heaven-like planet, with your long-dead granny baking you scones and all.
One thing though.. don't get cremated or you're f*cked.

its as real as this idea tbh.
its grand in science fiction, but in reality im sure numerous questions would arise, like why would everybody be given this amazing gift etc.

either way its science fiction,not reality. (yet at least;))

and why is this in A&A???
spirituality maybe?

stereoroid

Well, you've gone to the trouble of postulating a mechanism by which your speculative afterlife might come about; that immediately puts you one-up on the established religions...