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RE: Would you rather
October 5, 2016 at 3:38 pm
(October 5, 2016 at 3:33 pm)Excited Penguin Wrote: (October 5, 2016 at 3:27 pm)Arkilogue Wrote: You will lose your time line, having no control of the one you wake up in. It's a crap shoot. You'd want/need H.G. Wells' time machine.
You do realize the alternative is losing any timeline?
Meh, it's a death and rebirth without the courtesy of a new body but also without birth amnesia....if you jump into a very high tech age, you will be the dumb throwback but possibly also a kind of celebrity. If you jump into after a major crash of civilization, things are going to be shitopolis. Another possibility is to jump so far ahead/after major planetary catastrophe that humanity is but to tribal life. You could try your hand a being a God.
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RE: Would you rather
October 5, 2016 at 3:39 pm
(October 5, 2016 at 3:38 pm)Arkilogue Wrote: (October 5, 2016 at 3:33 pm)Excited Penguin Wrote: You do realize the alternative is losing any timeline?
Meh, it's a death and rebirth without the courtesy of a new body but also without birth amnesia....if you jump into a very high tech age, you will be the dumb throwback but possibly also a kind of celebrity. If you jump into after a major crash of civilization, things are going to be shitopolis. Another possibility is to jump so far ahead/after major planetary catastrophe that humanity is but to tribal life. You could try your hand a being a God.
Hey, you want what you want. I'd prefer playing the lottery on this one, myself.
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RE: Would you rather
October 5, 2016 at 4:01 pm
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Would you rather have 2 extra legs, 2 extra arms or 1 extra head?
My pic is 2 extra arms for climbing, construction/art and instrument playing. One head is trouble enough and while running like a horse would be awesome, I will trample the first person to walk up to me with a saddle!
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RE: Would you rather
October 5, 2016 at 4:27 pm
(October 5, 2016 at 4:01 pm)Arkilogue Wrote: Would you rather have 2 extra legs, 2 extra arms or 1 extra head?
My pic is 2 extra arms for climbing, construction/art and instrument playing. One head is trouble enough and while running like a horse would be awesome, I will trample the first person to walk up to me with a saddle!
Two extra heads means double the intelligence and mental productivity, so yeah.
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RE: Would you rather
October 5, 2016 at 4:52 pm
(October 5, 2016 at 3:24 pm)Excited Penguin Wrote: (October 5, 2016 at 2:27 pm)Stimbo Wrote: *Cryonics. Cryogenics is the study of how things behave in cold conditions.
Those two are interchangeable when talking about the preservation of bodies.
Well, not really, since the one is a branch of physics. They've become synonymous, but only through sloppy use of the terms. The way language evolves, basically.
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RE: Would you rather
October 5, 2016 at 4:53 pm
(October 5, 2016 at 4:52 pm)Stimbo Wrote: (October 5, 2016 at 3:24 pm)Excited Penguin Wrote: Those two are interchangeable when talking about the preservation of bodies.
Well, not really, since the one is a branch of physics. They've become synonymous, but only through sloppy use of the terms. The way language evolves, basically.
So is it that you don't agree with the way language evolves, then?
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RE: Would you rather
October 5, 2016 at 4:54 pm
Forget it. I'm too tired to have another pointless argument just now.
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RE: Would you rather
October 5, 2016 at 8:44 pm
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(October 5, 2016 at 4:27 pm)Excited Penguin Wrote: (October 5, 2016 at 4:01 pm)Arkilogue Wrote: Would you rather have 2 extra legs, 2 extra arms or 1 extra head?
My pic is 2 extra arms for climbing, construction/art and instrument playing. One head is trouble enough and while running like a horse would be awesome, I will trample the first person to walk up to me with a saddle!
Two extra heads means double the intelligence and mental productivity, so yeah.
You only get one extra head and it's a separately thinking "you"...and you can't control it.
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