How long do you want to live?

**Buku42** · 05-18-09 at 06:44 PM

But if it's for the purpose of seeing what it's like in the future, I'd rather go beyond 2100. 3001 because I want to see if we have braincaps and space elevators leading to a giant ring in geostationary orbit around the equator, and if we've colonized Ganymede. Just like in 3001: The Final Odyssey by Arthur C Clarke.

**DragonKnight** · 05-18-09 at 08:16 PM

For as long as I can

SnapplePumpkin · 05-18-09 at 09:31 PM

I want to live as long as I'm still able to live without pain or being senile. I don't know what age that is where things go south, but that's my general rule.

**zhass** · 05-19-09 at 05:35 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by bradnaut

I want to live 'till January 1st, 2100, atleast. I think it'd be amazing to see all the changes in our world through out from the late 1900's to the early 2100's.

John Elfreth Watkins Jr feels the same way that's why he wrote Predictions of the Year 2000 from The Ladies Home Journal of December 1900

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Prediction #1: There will probably be from 350,000,000 to 500,000,000 people in America and its possessions by the lapse of another century. Nicaragua will ask for admission to our Union after the completion of the great canal. Mexico will be next. Europe, seeking more territory to the south of us, will cause many of the South and Central American republics to be voted into the Union by their own people.”

Prediction #2: The American will be taller by from one to two inches. His increase of stature will result from better health, due to vast reforms in medicine, sanitation, food and athletics. He will live fifty years instead of thirty-five as at present – for he will reside in the suburbs. The city house will practically be no more. Building in blocks will be illegal. The trip from suburban home to office will require a few minutes only. A penny will pay the fare.

Prediction #3: Gymnastics will begin in the nursery, where toys and games will be designed to strengthen the muscles. Exercise will be compulsory in the schools. Every school, college and community will have a complete gymnasium. All cities will have public gymnasiums. A man or woman unable to walk ten miles at a stretch will be regarded as a weakling.

Prediction #4: There Will Be No Street Cars in Our Large Cities. All hurry traffic will be below or high above ground when brought within city limits. In most cities it will be confined to broad subways or tunnels, well lighted and well ventilated, or to high trestles with “moving-sidewalk” stairways leading to the top. These underground or overhead streets will teem with capacious automobile passenger coaches and freight with cushioned wheels. Subways or trestles will be reserved for express trains. Cities, therefore, will be free from all noises.

Prediction #5: Trains will run two miles a minute, normally; express trains one hundred and fifty miles an hour. To go from New York to San Francisco will take a day and a night by fast express. There will be cigar-shaped electric locomotives hauling long trains of cars. Cars will, like houses, be artificially cooled. Along the railroads there will be no smoke, no cinders, because coal will neither be carried nor burned. There will be no stops for water. Passengers will travel through hot or dusty country regions with windows down.

Prediction #6: Automobiles will be cheaper than horses are today. Farmers will own automobile hay-wagons, automobile truck-wagons, plows, harrows and hay-rakes. A one-pound motor in one of these vehicles will do the work of a pair of horses or more. Children will ride in automobile sleighs in winter. Automobiles will have been substituted for every horse vehicle now known. There will be, as already exist today, automobile hearses, automobile police patrols, automobile ambulances, automobile street sweepers. The horse in harness will be as scarce, if, indeed, not even scarcer, then as the yoked ox is today.

Prediction #7: There will be air-ships, but they will not successfully compete with surface cars and water vessels for passenger or freight traffic. They will be maintained as deadly war-vessels by all military nations. Some will transport men and goods. Others will be used by scientists making observations at great heights above the earth.

Prediction #8: Aerial War-Ships and Forts on Wheels. Giant guns will shoot twenty-five miles or more, and will hurl anywhere within such a radius shells exploding and destroying whole cities. Such guns will be armed by aid of compasses when used on land or sea, and telescopes when directed from great heights. Fleets of air-ships, hiding themselves with dense, smoky mists, thrown off by themselves as they move, will float over cities, fortifications, camps or fleets. They will surprise foes below by hurling upon them deadly thunderbolts. These aerial war-ships will necessitate bomb-proof forts, protected by great steel plates over their tops as well as at their sides. Huge forts on wheels will dash across open spaces at the speed of express trains of to-day. They will make what are now known as cavalry charges. Great automobile plows will dig deep entrenchments as fast as soldiers can occupy them. Rifles will use silent cartridges. Submarine boats submerged for days will be capable of wiping a whole navy off the face of the deep. Balloons and flying machines will carry telescopes of one-hundred-mile vision with camera attachments, photographing an enemy within that radius. These photographs as distinct and large as if taken from across the street, will be lowered to the commanding officer in charge of troops below.

Prediction #9: Photographs will be telegraphed from any distance. If there be a battle in China a hundred years hence snapshots of its most striking events will be published in the newspapers an hour later. Even to-day photographs are being telegraphed over short distances. Photographs will reproduce all of Nature’s colors.

Prediction #10: Man will See Around the World. Persons and things of all kinds will be brought within focus of cameras connected electrically with screens at opposite ends of circuits, thousands of miles at a span. American audiences in their theatres will view upon huge curtains before them the coronations of kings in Europe or the progress of battles in the Orient. The instrument bringing these distant scenes to the very doors of people will be connected with a giant telephone apparatus transmitting each incidental sound in its appropriate place. Thus the guns of a distant battle will be heard to boom when seen to blaze, and thus the lips of a remote actor or singer will be heard to utter words or music when seen to move.

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as for me I'll take life for any finite number of years it could possibly give, I'm in my mid 30's so if I could have 30 or 40 years more then I'd be thankful (I've reached the life expectancy) as I said before, live the day as if it was your last, spend time with your love ones, go to places you'd never been and do the things you love so there's no regret at the end.

MbahGondrong · 05-19-09 at 05:43 AM

As long as I can.

**tomandsusan** · 05-19-09 at 06:15 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by SnapplePumpkin

I want to live as long as I'm still able to live without pain or being senile. I don't know what age that is where things go south, but that's my general rule.

Well G-man, we might as well blow our brains out and end it now! You live with constant pain and I don't know where I am most of the time!

**Buku42** · 05-19-09 at 07:35 AM

lol Old people

**lvstealth** · 05-19-09 at 08:05 AM

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I would like to live until I could no longer control my rational state of mind. I hear people say that they would like to live as long as possible, but after your mind goes what the **** is the point? I can understand wanting to live a long life, but if you aren't able to enjoy it what is the point?

are you rational now? if your mind is gone... will it matter? will you notice? just kidding.
if there are only the two choices... i pick this side of the ground! no real qualifiers, its just that i figure there is always a chance... right up till there ... well... isnt! - Mandy

**csabaryu** · 05-19-09 at 08:27 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by Buku42

lol Old people

Is it only me who cannot laugh?

@ Gandolph & tomandsusan I got your back.

Mikets666 · 05-19-09 at 10:02 AM

I'm want to live long enough to finally see peace in the world, and the environment clean.

**tomandsusan** · 05-19-09 at 10:09 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by Mikets666

I'm want to live long enough to finally see peace in the world, and the environment clean.

CRAP DUDE! Only God is gonna live THAT long!

**lvstealth** · 05-19-09 at 10:27 AM

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I'm want to live long enough to finally see peace in the world, and the environment clean.

... so basically... forever?

**lvstealth** · 05-19-09 at 10:28 AM

i loved the predictions about the future from 1900! so funny

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Building in blocks will be illegal. The trip from suburban home to office will require a few minutes only. A penny will pay the fare.

jeffbuckley_kakui · 05-19-09 at 10:39 AM

Guys chill and smoke pot