In 1000 years you'll be long forgotten about

Scanlas The 2nd

Ponder this and see how you feel.

RobertFoster

Pfft, try 100.

Bipolar Joe

Who the **** am I?

Chuck Stone

Damn you death.. damn you.

Nephinbeg

Who cares?

py2006

Unless I do something notorious! Hmmmmmm

Quazzie

I'll always be remembered as the guy who burnt down Harrods.

* goes off to buy petrol *

Buceph

I don't really care that I'll be forgotten about.

I do care that I won't get to see what the place is like in a thousand years.

Absurdum

I remember loads of people from 1011, OP is wrong, thread fail, I win.

I think that a very consoling though, puts everything in to perspective.

thomasj

Buceph wrote: »

I don't really care that I'll be forgotten about.

I do care that I won't get to see what the place is like in a thousand years.

it wont look like those mcdonalds ads

you could hang around and haunt the place! The guys in the hellfire club seem to be still going strong! :P

Dyr

I'm not even remembered now, so what?

FatherLen

not only will i be remembered but i will still be alive!!!!

Princess Peach

Not if I start the next world war, or cure some kind of disease, or invent something that will change humanity.

I should really get out of bed today.

Chuck Stone

Bambi wrote: »

I'm not even remembered now, so what?

You new around here?

Nephinbeg

py2006 wrote: »

Unless I do something notorious! Hmmmmmm

Ha, reminds me of a red dwarf quote:

(following a discussion of the tremendous success of one of Rimmer's old school mates)
Rimmer: Did you go to school with anyone famous?
Lister: Charles Keenan. He was pretty famous.
Rimmer: What did he do?
Lister: Ate his wife.

pablomakaveli

I have a plan to be remembered. Mass Genocide. Lets see them forget that.

TheZohanS

On the plus side brummytom will have lost his virginity by then.

biko

Existential crisis OP?

Plazaman

Absurdum wrote: »

I remember loads of people from 1011, OP is wrong, thread fail, I win.

There was John..... his cavewife Teresa and their young fella.... jaysus what was his name, always out hunting......... Umbugu, that's right.

Hank_Jones

pablomakaveli wrote: »

I have a plan to be remembered. Mass Genocide. Lets see them forget that.

That does seem to be the way to get remembered.

Would bet that almost everyone knows who Hitler is,
but a large number of those wouldn't know who the leaders of the other countries involved in WWII are.

There's also the music option though, Mozart and Beethoven are past the 200 year mark and still remembered,
they could make a thousand years.

I'm going to make a viral video and put it on youtube,
surely that will have me remembered for thousands of years.

Juicyfruit

In less than 200 years every single person on the planet right now will be dead.

Think about that one!

Sea Sharp

Ya never know, the data on the boards servers might be cached and still be around then.
You might be remembered for starting stupid threads.

Scanlas The 2nd

biko wrote: »

Existential crisis OP?

Just find it a weird sensation (not bad, don't know what it is) to think that everyone I know will be long dead and forgotten and other people will be going about their business 1000 years from now not knowing the people now.

Helium

Are ya listening Facekicker ????

Wibbs

xLouLoux wrote: »

In less than 200 years every single person on the planet right now will be dead.

Think about that one!

Maybe not. It's probable that if we continue on our research road and aren't buggered up by wars or luddites we will get to a point where we fully understand aging and death and will be able to stave it off for longer and likely reverse it. It is after all an engineering problem albeit a very complex one. There will come a point where we as a species will become essentially immortal or very very very long lived. This could happen in the next 100 years. So it's possible that a baby born today may live just long enough to be able to avail of this technology and live for longer and the longer they live the longer they will live as newer and newer methods come along. This may even be the case with some people reading this. A 20 year old today should live to around 80, so in 2071 a lot of this tech could be on stream. So maybe for the first time in human history, if you live long enough you may live long enough to live for a very very long time.

Quazzie

Wibbs wrote: »

Maybe not. It's probable that if we continue on our research road and aren't buggered up by wars or luddites we will get to a point where we fully understand aging and death and will be able to stave it off for longer and likely reverse it. It is after all an engineering problem albeit a very complex one. There will come a point where we as a species will become essentially immortal or very very very long lived. This could happen in the next 100 years. So it's possible that a baby born today may live just long enough to be able to avail of this technology and live for longer and the longer they live the longer they will live as newer and newer methods come along. This may even be the case with some people reading this. A 20 year old today should live to around 80, so in 2071 a lot of this tech could be on stream. So maybe for the first time in human history, if you live long enough you may live long enough to live for a very very long time.

Would you want to though Wibbs. Presumabley if this was to happen then there would have to be serious restrictions put on reproduction, etc. so can you imagine being alive for hundreds of years never having the joy of holding your own child, and rearing it. I think if it came to a point where we were immortal or even longer lasting (couple of hundred years) then mass suicide would soon become normal as people would opt out.

CrazyRabbit

Who cares? It won't matter when I'm dead.

smokedeels

The wet cement I wrote my name in says otherwise.

orourkeda

I'll be forgotten 2 weeks after I die

Wibbs

Quazzie wrote: »

Would you want to though Wibbs.

God yes I would.

Presumabley if this was to happen then there would have to be serious restrictions put on reproduction, etc. so can you imagine being alive for hundreds of years never having the joy of holding your own child, and rearing it.

I have no interest in having a child or holding one or rearing one so maybe this is why I would want to live for a long time?

I think if it came to a point where we were immortal or even longer lasting (couple of hundred years) then mass suicide would soon become normal as people would opt out.

I'd suspect you're right, that only a small enough percentage would want to live forever. We're very tied into our mortality and time of life and the stages that go with it. Reproduction itself is a way to "live forever". Take all those set in stone life stages away and many if not most would have difficulty adjusting. Though maybe not, we may mentally adapt other new life stages. Maybe the more "immortal machine" we became, more different needs and wants might crop up. Ones that fit with massive lifespans? I still reckon we'll do it though.

The King of Moo

Sea Sharp wrote: »

Ya never know, the data on the boards servers might be cached and still be around then.
You might be remembered for starting stupid threads.

I'd love if boards was future archaeologists' only source of information about the early 21st century.

"Mating rituals were elaborate, and often involved two prospective mates dousing each other in urine.

Sexual mores were also more relaxed than now, with engaging in intercourse with peers' mothers a popular pastime.

We also believe that photography was invented around this time and enjoyed popular use, as apparently if one entered a room with an interesting story or professing to be an attractive female, they would be ejected from the room without photographic proof.

This was also a dangerous time though, with roving gangs of violent mutants with exotic names and elaborate dress codes such as "The Travellers," "The Skangers," "The Immigrants" and "The Roma" (possibly a remnant of the Roman Empire). It is believed that the recently discovered film-tape The Warriors offers a documentary record of Dublin at this time.

The most surprising find was how different people looked at the time, possibly due to cosmetic surgical alteration, as seen in this photoplate, with strangely pale and oval-shaped heads and blank, staring eyes..."

Juicyfruit

Wibbs wrote: »

Maybe not. It's probable that if we continue on our research road and aren't buggered up by wars or luddites we will get to a point where we fully understand aging and death and will be able to stave it off for longer and likely reverse it. It is after all an engineering problem albeit a very complex one. There will come a point where we as a species will become essentially immortal or very very very long lived. This could happen in the next 100 years. So it's possible that a baby born today may live just long enough to be able to avail of this technology and live for longer and the longer they live the longer they will live as newer and newer methods come along. This may even be the case with some people reading this. A 20 year old today should live to around 80, so in 2071 a lot of this tech could be on stream. So maybe for the first time in human history, if you live long enough you may live long enough to live for a very very long time.

Possible, but highly unlikely.

If everyone lived forever and more and more people were born, the world would become terribly overcrowded

peterk675

It does bother me in a way . The fact that we work or do what we do all our lives to just be gone , and probly never to even be remembered again (until the family die out) , just like that :mad:

We may die but our posts will live on.

The King of Moo

I think what gets to me more is the thought that we as a species will die out, and that everything that has been achieved in the name of humanity will be lost or left to slowly disintegrate with no-one around to bear witness to them.

That's why I think in the long run we need to get out into space and colonise other planets, before either the Sun or Earth fails us.

Even if somewhere in the far distant future our descendants aren't recognisably human, and even though we don't have the best track record as a species, we have too much potential greatness which occasionally shines through for us to be completely forgotten.

iamstop

Time for the OP to bury a time capsule me thinks.

zyxwvu

Every so often I use a few sources of information to give me a bit of perspective on the whole "being a human on earth" thing:

http://dml.cmnh.org/2005Apr/msg00410.html
- if the history of the earth is a 24 hour clock, life began (probably as self-replicating organic molecules) at about 4:10am, multi-cellular organisms 1:02pm,land-dwelling plants 9:31pm, land-dwelling animals 9:46pm, common-ancestor of humans with apes 11:57pm, oldest human civilisations 11:59:59.9 (one tenth of a second before midnight).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0lxbzgwW7I&feature=related
- lots of videos like this on YouTube which try to show how insignificant earth is, in a way humans can get their head around.

I also read about ancient history and prehistory on Wikipedia and in books the odd time, just to kind of get my head around how we got to where we are, from being pure hunter-gatherers who didn't possess behavioural modernity. I like to fill in the gaps of the last few thousand years so to speak! You find out some interesting stuff. Last week I learned that humans were probably reduced to a very small number of breeding pairs (eg. 1000 to 10000) about 70,000 years ago as a result of a massive volcanic eruption. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory

1000 years isn't that long op, but we will of course all be forgotten about. ah well!

SV

Pft, speak for yourself.

CrazyRabbit

My posts on boards are my legacy. It'll be around in a 1000 years...no doubt.

amen

not only will i be remembered but i will still be alive!!!!

me too. Lets pick a city that hopefully will be still there in 1,000 years and have a drink!

sheesh

Scanlas The 2nd wrote: »

Ponder this and see how you feel.

It's comforting.

Speaking of the future I would love to do some sort of time capsule thing, no, not some pictures of my family and letters to the future telling them to look after the rain forest but a proper one like the rosetta stone a large piece of text in english spanish chinese and swahili (I think the continent of africa is due a good turn any epoc now)

Tabnabs

Cattle die, kindred die,
Every man is mortal:
But I know one thing that never dies,
The glory of the great dead

The Hávamál

brummytom

TheZohan wrote: »

On the plus side brummytom will have lost his virginity by then.

God, you're optimistic

Trhiggy83

Remember the past,Enjoy the present and make plans for the future....Dont think 100 years ahead as there is no point

Thats all Kids

Guill

Hitler will be remembered.



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Conor108

The King of Moo wrote: »

I think what gets to me more is the thought that we as a species will die out, and that everything that has been achieved in the name of humanity will be lost or left to slowly disintegrate with no-one around to bear witness to them.

That's why I think in the long run we need to get out into space and colonise other planets, before either the Sun or Earth fails us.

Even if somewhere in the far distant future our descendants aren't recognisably human, and even though we don't have the best track record as a species, we have too much potential greatness which occasionally shines through for us to be completely forgotten.

+1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oY59wZdCDo0

3000th post!!! BOOM!

Sean Quagmire

thomasj wrote: »

it wont look like those mcdonalds ads

I wish I could be alive then so I could punch the gob****e in that ad

''dont be stupeh it wrecks the cheese''

man i wanna punch him so bad.

Lone Stone

not if i etch my name into every building in the world !!