In 1000 years you'll be long forgotten about

Scanlas The 2nd · 09-08-2011 09:15AM #1

Ponder this and see how you feel.

RobertFoster · 09-08-2011 09:16AM

Pfft, try 100.

Bipolar Joe · 09-08-2011 09:17AM

Who the **** am I?

Chuck Stone · 09-08-2011 09:18AM

Damn you death.. damn you.

Nephinbeg · 09-08-2011 09:18AM

Who cares?

py2006 · 09-08-2011 09:20AM

Unless I do something notorious! Hmmmmmm

Quazzie · 09-08-2011 09:22AM

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

* goes off to buy petrol *

Buceph · 09-08-2011 09:22AM

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 · 09-08-2011 09:25AM

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

09-08-2011 09:25AM

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

thomasj · 09-08-2011 09:26AM

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 · 09-08-2011 09:27AM

I'm not even remembered now, so what?

FatherLen · 09-08-2011 09:28AM

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

Princess Peach · 09-08-2011 09:30AM

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 · 09-08-2011 09:30AM

Bambi wrote: »

I'm not even remembered now, so what?

You new around here?

Nephinbeg · 09-08-2011 09:30AM

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 · 09-08-2011 09:36AM

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

TheZohanS · 09-08-2011 09:40AM

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

biko · 09-08-2011 09:41AM

Existential crisis OP?

Plazaman · 09-08-2011 09:42AM

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 · 09-08-2011 09:43AM

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 · 09-08-2011 09:45AM

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

Think about that one!

Sea Sharp · 09-08-2011 09:45AM

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 · 09-08-2011 09:47AM

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 · 09-08-2011 09:49AM

Are ya listening Facekicker ????

Wibbs · 09-08-2011 11:15AM

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 · 09-08-2011 11:19AM

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 · 09-08-2011 11:19AM

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

smokedeels · 09-08-2011 11:21AM

The wet cement I wrote my name in says otherwise.

orourkeda · 09-08-2011 11:24AM

I'll be forgotten 2 weeks after I die

Wibbs · 09-08-2011 11:27AM

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.

In 1000 years you'll be long forgotten about

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