May 2021 - Robot Series #1: The Caves of Steel

[Ed]

If you really wanna know about Michelism, here's a good place:
https://fancyclopedia.org/Michelism

[Mickey]

Ed wrote: "If you really wanna know about Michelism, here's a good place:
https://fancyclopedia.org/Michelism"

Interesting.

[Karin]

Mickey wrote: "I am hoping some crackpot scientists comes up with a cure for aging. Then again someone told me “you read too much science fiction, way way too much science fiction “. I found myself speechless."

Well, first they have to stop the shortening of telomerase (HeLa cells reproduce forever because it doesn't shorten with successive dividing), but of course there are many other things they'd have to stop and the list is enormous.

Honestly, do we really want that so that criminals and nefarious types just keep on living forever? It wouldn't only be good people.

I have mixed feelings on this as you can tell, even though I would be thrilled to not age! It's one thing in theory and another in practise ;).

[Mickey]

Perhaps, I can have my mind transferred to a Robot. Sorta like what Jean-Luc Picard did in his new show “Picard” and start a new adventures of life. Yea I should go back and reread books from Kurt Vonnegut and less Science fiction.

[Karin]

Mickey wrote: "Perhaps, I can have my mind transferred to a Robot. Sorta like what Jean-Luc Picard did in his new show “Picard” and start a new adventures of life. Yea I should go back and reread books from Kurt ..."

Yes, there are a number of scifi books and shows that have that sort of thing :)