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http://www.businessinsider.com/google-is-launching-a-company-that-hopes-to-cure-death-2013-9
Like all forward thinking Amiga owners I have waited an eternity for this! What a great way to use our timeless Amiga's longer.
Official Press Release: http://googlepress.blogspot.com/2013/09/calico-announcement.html
Larry Page Interview with Time: http://techland.time.com/2013/09/18/google-vs-death/
Apple Insider: http://forums.appleinsider.com/t/159615/apple-chairman-art-levinson-signs-on-as-ceo-of-new-google-health-venture
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Yeah, because we need more years with Larry Page.
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So...
...we can live for as long as we allow them to track us and send us personalized ads?
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Sure why not, it doesnt matter any way.
If life is, as some speculate, just a simulation, then longer life is just a longer time in the sim.
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For an encore, maybe they can go on to turn lead into gold...
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Yep awesome, as much as I would like to be semi-immortal (20k years give or take), the last thing this planet needs is even more of us feeding off it!
But if we were committed to spreading ourselves off planet then I'm all for helping the genome move along.
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Guess I'm a cynic, but the first thing I thought of was this:
(http://rechallengers.webs.com/photos/Resident%20Evil/umbrella-logo-psd-jpgcopy.jpg)
:D
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I don't think google will turn us into zombies, but you never know though
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I thought that's what they've been working toward since 2005...
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I thought that's what they've been working toward since 2005...
Don't you mean Apple? ;)
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Oh, it's a field with many players.
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I don't think google will turn us into zombies, but you never know though
Google has already turned me into a zombie.
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seems this is another scam like the "mars one project"...they scammed thousands of idiots selling tickets to mars
or maybe another scam like "green peace"...there is always idiots who donate money
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Lol the way the articular spins this is pretty funny, I see this more to do with the rise of these health apps and health tracking tech to get people to work out more and eat healthier. Also there are a few tech companies I read about a while back trying to make a real tricorder that could find out whats wrong with a person much easier and quicker than today, if a company like Google gets behind that then that's pretty cool.
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Where's my warp drive???
slaapliedje
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http://www.businessinsider.com/google-is-launching-a-company-that-hopes-to-cure-death-2013-9
Like all forward thinking Amiga owners I have waited an eternity for this! What a great way to use our timeless Amiga's longer.
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Are you serious?
Logically considered there are just two possibilities:
1) You can live forever, but have to stop all (straight) sexual activities - or this planet will be hopelessly overcrowded in a few years (if you are immortal and propagate).
2) You are allowed to have sex and propagate, but have to accept that you are mortal as always.
Now choose yourself (don't let mad pseudo scientists and google fool you)...
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@Dandy: Sexual activity != propagation
:D
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@Dandy:
Sexual activity != propagation
:D
That's why I put " straight (=not gay or lesbian)" in front of sexual activity...maybe I should add "unprotected" as well...
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Ha ha, reminds me of condom slogans that I'd read once, but instead;
If you want to dip it, you must snip it.
Anyone else can think of some?
slaapliedje
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Oh wow now Google is working on that, so I would say I will live forever. The interesting thing is, there are many similiar companies that were or are very big. But all have one thing in common, they grow with one (max 2) revolutionary product. After a while you can see that they start buying many other smaller companies. This usually means, their one big product is shrinking and they try to find something else. Another revolutionary product. See Microsoft (DOS and later Windows and many things they've bought like Hotmail, Skype, etc.), Yahoo (search engine and many other smaller things they've bought), Facebook (they are currently buying like hell), Google (also buying like hell). For example Google, they have Google X, a very expensive research institution, but is there a new product? Google Glass seems to die before it is released, never saw a self driving car on the street yet or anything else made by Google X. So my opinion about this "news" is: yet another expensive but unsuccessful project.
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They were test driving the self-drive cars in the parking lot of my old job. I always wanted one! Bring us some self driving cars like in Demolition Man or 6th Day! Though I could do without the part about being fined when cursing! I'd be broke as !@#$
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