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Graygor
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#21 - 2012-11-06 08:20:10 UTC  |  Edited by: Graygor
Jonah Gravenstein wrote:
The scorpion DNA would take over and we'd all end up looking like the scorpion king.


To parody 40k.
In the grim darkness of the future, everyone looks like The Rock!

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Jonah Gravenstein
Machiavellian Space Bastards
#22 - 2012-11-06 08:25:04 UTC
The only way to be truly immortal is via infamy & genocide.

In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.

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Onyx Nyx
Trillium Invariant
Honorable Third Party
#23 - 2012-11-06 09:09:21 UTC
Jonah Gravenstein wrote:
The only way to be truly immortal is via infamy & genocide.


Like how this "god" person went about doing just that.

I kill kittens, and puppies and bunnies. I maim toddlers and teens and then more.

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Graygor
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#24 - 2012-11-06 10:37:15 UTC
Jonah Gravenstein wrote:
The only way to be truly immortal is via infamy & genocide.


Historical Irony that the really, lasting famous people of the past are basically ancient versions of Kim il Sun and Kim Jong il. Well for Egyptian Pharoahs that is.

Augustus Caesar is still my all time favourite tyrannical despot though.

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Onyx Nyx
Trillium Invariant
Honorable Third Party
#25 - 2012-11-06 10:39:54 UTC
Graygor wrote:


Augustus Caesar is still my all time favourite tyrannical despot though.


He doesn't even begin to compare to Nero.

I kill kittens, and puppies and bunnies. I maim toddlers and teens and then more.

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Graygor
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#26 - 2012-11-06 10:44:17 UTC
Well yes Nero was nuts, and there were a load of Chinese mad men we could pile on.

But Augustus Caesar I like because he could manage and did great things for the Empire.

I'm a fan of builders, not destroyers.

The Huns may have sacked Rome, but they're a footnote, the Caesars will last for a hell of a lot longer.

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Webvan
All Kill No Skill
#27 - 2012-11-06 10:58:53 UTC
Onyx Nyx wrote:
Graygor wrote:


Augustus Caesar is still my all time favourite tyrannical despot though.


He doesn't even begin to compare to Nero.


Who doesn't come anywhere close to Mao Zedong (estimated 65 million dead).

I'm in it for the money

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Onyx Nyx
Trillium Invariant
Honorable Third Party
#28 - 2012-11-06 11:06:21 UTC
Graygor wrote:
Well yes Nero was nuts, and there were a load of Chinese mad men we could pile on.

But Augustus Caesar I like because he could manage and did great things for the Empire.

I'm a fan of builders, not destroyers.

The Huns may have sacked Rome, but they're a footnote, the Caesars will last for a hell of a lot longer.


Of course, and you are right that Augustus Caesar was a builder and that made him a great man. Even if he did leave his mark on much of europe, africa and asia as a conqueror.

Unlike someone like Nero who had nothing but megalomania.

I kill kittens, and puppies and bunnies. I maim toddlers and teens and then more.

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Onyx Nyx
Trillium Invariant
Honorable Third Party
#29 - 2012-11-06 11:17:00 UTC
Webvan wrote:
Onyx Nyx wrote:
Graygor wrote:


Augustus Caesar is still my all time favourite tyrannical despot though.


He doesn't even begin to compare to Nero.


Who doesn't come anywhere close to Mao Zedong (estimated 65 million dead).


Well, yeah, he is in the top of that league. But I find Mao to be a puzzling character driven by his ideology unlike Nero was just plain batshit insane from the get-go.

Though I am sure that people will disagree on that point.

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Tallian Saotome
Nuclear Arms Exchange Inc.
#30 - 2012-11-06 11:20:02 UTC
Onyx Nyx wrote:

Of course, and you are right that Augustus Caesar was a builder and that made him a great man. Even if he did leave his mark on much of europe, africa and asia as a conqueror.

Unlike someone like Nero who had nothing but megalomania.

Speaking of megalomania, anyone know where you can sell some excess off? I got more of that than I know what to do with Cool

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Onyx Nyx
Trillium Invariant
Honorable Third Party
#31 - 2012-11-06 11:28:19 UTC
Tallian Saotome wrote:
Onyx Nyx wrote:

Of course, and you are right that Augustus Caesar was a builder and that made him a great man. Even if he did leave his mark on much of europe, africa and asia as a conqueror.

Unlike someone like Nero who had nothing but megalomania.

Speaking of megalomania, anyone know where you can sell some excess off? I got more of that than I know what to do with Cool


Join any large EVE alliance?

I kill kittens, and puppies and bunnies. I maim toddlers and teens and then more.

  • Richard (http://www.lfgcomic.com/)
Tallian Saotome
Nuclear Arms Exchange Inc.
#32 - 2012-11-06 11:29:28 UTC
Onyx Nyx wrote:
Tallian Saotome wrote:
Onyx Nyx wrote:

Of course, and you are right that Augustus Caesar was a builder and that made him a great man. Even if he did leave his mark on much of europe, africa and asia as a conqueror.

Unlike someone like Nero who had nothing but megalomania.

Speaking of megalomania, anyone know where you can sell some excess off? I got more of that than I know what to do with Cool


Join any large EVE alliance?

Where do you think I got such a large supply?

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CCP Eterne
C C P
C C P Alliance
#33 - 2012-11-06 11:34:17 UTC
Quantum immortality bitches.

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stoicfaux
#34 - 2012-11-06 16:00:11 UTC  |  Edited by: stoicfaux
NickyYo wrote:
I am currently 25 and I want to live forever may it be in a computer or in flesh, what yas think the chances are of the anti-age pill and space travel be in my life time?

http://www.smh.com.au/national/antiageing-pills-could-be-a-reality-20120717-2282m.html


There are three problems with individual immortality:
a) the longer you live, the chances of you dying in an accident approach near certainty,
b) your brain has finite storage. If you live long enough, you'll probably become a completely new person as your memories are lost/overwritten.
c) Evolution. Everyone else will evolve/change. In the far future, you could wind up being the equivalent of a short, hairy, low IQ neanderthal.

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Ares Desideratus
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#35 - 2012-11-06 20:57:35 UTC
stoicfaux wrote:
NickyYo wrote:
I am currently 25 and I want to live forever may it be in a computer or in flesh, what yas think the chances are of the anti-age pill and space travel be in my life time?

http://www.smh.com.au/national/antiageing-pills-could-be-a-reality-20120717-2282m.html


There are three problems with individual immortality:
a) the longer you live, the chances of you dying in an accident approach near certainty,
b) your brain has finite storage. If you live long enough, you'll probably become a completely new person as your memories are lost/overwritten.
c) Evolution. Everyone else will evolve/change. In the far future, you could wind up being the equivalent of a short, hairy, low IQ neanderthal.

if you're at the point where evolution would actually have a meaningful effect, the tech would be so great you could probably just upgrade yourself to match the newer models
digitalwanderer
DW inc
#36 - 2012-11-07 00:32:52 UTC
I wouldn't even think of it to be honest, as we're already screwing up the world to such a degree, that the human species actually existing to the next century without there being a major disaster is already highly doubtfull as it is, and i don't want to be alive to see it happen...



I have lost faith in the species basically....P
Tinja Soikutsu
Perkone
Caldari State
#37 - 2012-11-07 02:53:19 UTC
Hmmm. no... you do know the worst possible curse that could be put on someone in many cultures is immortality?
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