Page 3 of 3

Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2005 1:47 pm
by MKJ
Transient wrote:Woot for overpopulation.
point

Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2005 1:48 pm
by plained
fuc thats horrable

Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2005 1:55 pm
by Transient
MKJ wrote:
Transient wrote:Woot for overpopulation.
point
Can you imagine how overpopulated America/Europe/Asia will become now? Just increasing the average lifespan will be severe enough. Instead of people dieing in their 60s, if they live 20 more years on average, that's 10s of millions more people walking the street in America alone. Thousands of people die each day from different things, from accidents to gun shootings to heart attacks to whatever. Imagine if 200 people a day are saved. Each year that's 73,000 extra people on the streets. What's that going to do to our food supply? Our polution? Housing?

Granted this is a cynical and pessimistic outlook on what could be a great medical advancement, but the implications aren't all positive. :(

6 billion people is enough.

Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2005 1:57 pm
by Grudge
We just need to keep the poor and uneducated from breeding.

Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2005 2:11 pm
by Ryoki
Transient, we may live in the era of the highest world population ever...
Asia, Latin America, and both Western and Eastern Europe have been experiencing declining birthrates for years. In fact birthrates are falling in virtually every country in the world today, with the exception of the U.S and France.

An invention like this will have little effect on the total world population i think.

Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2005 2:16 pm
by Transient
Maybe immediately, but what about the long term effects? Like 50 years down the road?

Plus that means France and the US will be overpopulated, which is still bad.

Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2005 2:28 pm
by eepberries
AmIdYfReAk wrote:that is somthing that shouldent be fucked with.. .

if something/someone dies.. let it be, it was ment to happen..
If given the chance, i'd rather be iced after an accident then brought back to life isntead of dying. FUCK YO COUCH, NIGGA!

Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2005 2:59 pm
by Uaintseenme
I hope everyone studies up on all these zombie movies coming out. ;)

Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2005 3:24 pm
by +JuggerNaut+
Transient wrote:
MKJ wrote:
Transient wrote:Woot for overpopulation.
point
Can you imagine how overpopulated America/Europe/Asia will become now? Just increasing the average lifespan will be severe enough. Instead of people dieing in their 60s, if they live 20 more years on average, that's 10s of millions more people walking the street in America alone. Thousands of people die each day from different things, from accidents to gun shootings to heart attacks to whatever. Imagine if 200 people a day are saved. Each year that's 73,000 extra people on the streets. What's that going to do to our food supply? Our polution? Housing?

Granted this is a cynical and pessimistic outlook on what could be a great medical advancement, but the implications aren't all positive. :(

6 billion people is enough.

good point. the entire planet needs a good thinning out, imo.

Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2005 3:56 pm
by iambowelfish
Transient wrote:
MKJ wrote:
Transient wrote:Woot for overpopulation.
point
Can you imagine how overpopulated America/Europe/Asia will become now? Just increasing the average lifespan will be severe enough. Instead of people dieing in their 60s, if they live 20 more years on average, that's 10s of millions more people walking the street in America alone. Thousands of people die each day from different things, from accidents to gun shootings to heart attacks to whatever. Imagine if 200 people a day are saved. Each year that's 73,000 extra people on the streets. What's that going to do to our food supply? Our polution? Housing?

Granted this is a cynical and pessimistic outlook on what could be a great medical advancement, but the implications aren't all positive. :(

6 billion people is enough.
Similar advances in technology should allow people to have kids later, which would balance that out.

The problem is convincing people not to pop them out at the earliest opportunity.

Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2005 3:57 pm
by mik0rs
Which just won't hapen, you're always going to get towny slappers shagging skinny chavs with thin taches and concieving evil little rats for chilren at 13.

Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2005 4:06 pm
by Grudge
mik0rs wrote:Which just won't hapen, you're always going to get towny slappers shagging skinny chavs with thin taches and concieving evil little rats for chilren at 13.
Grudge wrote:We just need to keep the poor and uneducated from breeding.

Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2005 4:08 pm
by mik0rs
mik0rs wrote:Which just won't hapen.
And I quoted my typo.

Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2005 4:12 pm
by iambowelfish
Also...

"Boffins create zombie dogs"???

"Boffins"? That word should be banned. "Zombie"? Hardly.

Why is MSM science coverage so willfully poor?

Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2005 4:14 pm
by mik0rs
The thing I like the most is the picture of the angry looking dog to give weight to the "zombie" headline.

Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2005 4:26 pm
by bitWISE
Transient wrote:Maybe immediately, but what about the long term effects? Like 50 years down the road?

Plus that means France and the US will be overpopulated, which is still bad.
I'd rather be limited to one child per person. Saying that is essentially saying I don't want to be alive (since my dad was one of eight kids) but I really don't think people should be having so many even without this discovery.

Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2005 4:27 pm
by mik0rs
You aught to give China a try.

Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2005 4:34 pm
by bitWISE
mik0rs wrote:You aught to give China a try.
Sometimes I actually wish I were born in China or Japan. I think it would've been cool.

Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2005 4:35 pm
by mik0rs
Dunno about Japan, I mean I want to visit and such, but I don't like the idea of trying to put my fingers up the teacher's arse all the time.

Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2005 4:37 pm
by bitWISE
mik0rs wrote:Dunno about Japan, I mean I want to visit and such, but I don't like the idea of trying to put my fingers up the teacher's arse all the time.
Only if it were horton Image