I was watching this television show and they interviewed a young man, who claimed he had invented a device for humans to live forever. I thought this was very interesting and wanted to know more, but the show’s objective was not to inform but to poke fun at the man, and sadly I don’t think he noticed. The man has created these objects that go around one’s fingers and toes, and he says it makes the wearer of his invention immortal. This seems far fetched, though the man does seem very bright and appears to know what he’s talking about, but the interview was short and not very informative, so I could be wrong. I’ve heard of a way to lengthen life, possibly sustain it forever, and I think some know how to do it, but it’s just that we don’t have the technology. I was hoping someone had seen this, read about this, or has somehow acquired some knowledge about this subject and could shine some light on it for me. Thank you.
Gee, I wonder why.
Gee, that person wouldn’t be Alex Chiu would it?
Your topic title and user name combined sound sort of . . . masochistic.
Has Clive Barker crawled into your head?
Who wants to live forever? Music is going downhill, and most new movies are re-makes of good movies made years ago. I wish it was 1965 instead of 2000. Peace,
JB
I think it would be fun to live forever. You would have the time to go around to each and every person on the planet and insult them…in alphabetical order.
remember lovingthepain, each and every one of us is immortal until proven wrong through death.
Immortality, in theory, may be possible; in practice it is utterly impossible.
While the average human life span is constantly inceasing, there are always accidents lurking out there to claim your life. The longer you live, the more chance you have of encountering death. And really, do you want to be sharing the road with 200 year old divers? Shit, the 75 year olds are bad enough!
Wowbagger is my favorite Douglas Adams character.
Living forever would be boring, but what if you could live healthily as long as you wanted to? And by living healthily I don’t mean eating only granola, etc. but without debilitating ailments? I’d love that. And then, when I got too bored, I’d take a pill.
What are those 200-year-olds diving on the road for?
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Do you think maybe they’re hoping to miss the ground?
Well, I was talking about the kind of immortality that stops your aging when you begin whatever that’ll keep you young (or old, depending on when you start it, if it does stop aging all together). I wouldn’t like to be 100 forever, that’s why I’d like to find out about his invention while I’m young. One big problem with it, as long as your healthy you’d probably live to be a good 60, maybe 70 years old before stuff starts happening to you. By then you’re beginning to think the son of a bitch doesn’t work, but you’ll be too old to give a shit and you figure it was only like 20 dollars anyway (that’s how much the thing cost). But again, I really don’t know how it works or anything, but I’d like to know more about it.
The man looked Japanese (you know how all those Asian and them look alike), I couldn’t guarantee if Alex Chiu was his name but it sort’ve rings a bell.
lovingthepain, please tell me you are not trying to trick someone into posting a link to Alex Chiu’s site.
Living “forever” is impossible, because it’s counter-evolutionary. End of discussion.
Living longer than we live now is possible, but not by much. Living longer and staying “healthy” is also possible, but harder. It also depends on one’s definition of “health”.
I guarantee that Alex Chiu is his name. Be aware, though, that in the past many people have come here explicitly for the purpose of linking to a page on his site that gives them some kind of reward, and that is frowned upon. You are probably not aware of this, so I just wanted to let you know that it would remind a lot of people here of those people if you post a link.
So, I’ll tell you how to find his web page, but please don’t post any links to it here or people will think less of you. If you feel you want to give this guy $20 for his worthless trinkets, I won’t stop you. I will however tell you that his invention is totally worthless.
He’s just using simple magnets to ‘prolong life’. Why do you need to pay him? Just follow the drawings on his web site and make your own if you want. It will not help you.
Do I sound a bit judgemental? Perhaps. It’s just that this kind of pseudoscience is really harmful to the general level of intelligence in this society. How can we prove these rings don’t work? We can’t. That’s what makes it non-science. But, in 20 years when you see a picture of him and realize he looks 45 instead of 25, you’ll scratch your head. In 60 years when he’s dying of some cancer, he’ll make up some excuse for why his rings didn’t work for him, but that they still work for others. Just look at the testimonials!
Anyway, enough ranting. To find his site, follow these directions:
His name is Alex Chiu.
Remove the space from his name, and put it between www. and .com and you’re there. Remember, please don’t put a link here to that site. It’ll only encourage him.
The magnets-on-the-finger thing is obviously a crock. But with the coming advances in nanotechnology and molecular electronics that many futurists are predicting for the 21st century, we might be able to build robots with human-level intelligence in about 30 or 40 years. Then, all we need to do is figure out a way to download our consciousness into these robots. Presto, instant immortality, or at least an indefinite lifespan with the proper maintenance.
Imagine it; “Microsoft headshok 2035, service pack 3”. I could have sex, balance my checkbook, and play Minesweeper at the same time.
If you put up a referral to this idiot’s site, I will yank your posting privileges so fast that you will find yourself in next week. Without your teeth. I will also try to get your ISP to dump you. So far, I’ve only succeeded in a couple of people being dumped by their ISPs, but there’s always the chance that YOU’LL be lucky number 3.
'cause we’ve got all these nuts dropping in. 
I wasn’t trying to plug no motherfucker’s site, I didn’t even know it was him until someone said his name and it rung a bell. I was just asking people’s thoughts about the subject. Obviously you are all very skeptical, and that’s all I wanted-your opinions. While we are talking about the guy, has anybody actually tried the things? Do they work? I’m willing to bet they don’t. For the money he’s asking I’d rather die. Thank you all, bye.
You deserve some more Godiva’s, or any other fine chocolate available!
There was a song in the 70’s that had the line “Nothing lasts forever but the earth and sky”. Sorry to disillusion that group, but even the earth and sky are doomed at some point. It may take 14 billion years, but nothing lasts forever.
Kinda scary, isn’t it. Sooner or later, life on earth will cease to exist and everything we do today will be for naught. Frankly, I hope I’m wrong.
For the record about those immortality rings:
I actually went to the site and checked it out . . . very misleading (duh). He said the ring has patent number 5,xxx,xxx (I don’t remember it), which is correct. However, the reason for the patent is that the magnets do funky things, not, as he implies it, because it will prolong your life.