Peter Thiel Gives Whiz Kids $100K To Quit College, Start Businesses

Re:Peter Thiel Gives Whiz Kids $100K To Quit College, Start ... by samtp on Wednesday May 25, 2011 @02:09PM (#2584914)

>eliminating death

This is a pointless exercise that is doomed to failure. Sure, we may be able to extend a person's life to 200 or 300 years. But will we be able to cure all future diseases (for the next million years), eliminate accidents, natural disasters, and sudden body failure? What about when the sun burns out in a few billion years? Will we be able to successfully colonize another planet while keeping the same safety precautions for human life?

Death is as much a part of life as birth. It will not be eliminated unless you eliminate life. To think otherwise is a denial of reality.

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Re:Peter Thiel Gives Whiz Kids $100K To Quit College, Start ... by kiba on Wednesday May 25, 2011 @03:51PM (#2585270)

There will always be people who murders other, doesn't mean we should never try to lower the possibility of murder.

Same thing with death. We should lower the possibility that you will die within in the next 5, 25, 100, and thousand of years, or even million.

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Re:Peter Thiel Gives Whiz Kids $100K To Quit College, Start ... by rms on Thursday May 26, 2011 @06:18AM (#2587198)

Yes, it's not clear to me that once we eliminate death that we will still be human, but hopefully we won't have eliminated life at the same time.

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Re:Peter Thiel Gives Whiz Kids $100K To Quit College, Start ... by puredemo on Wednesday May 25, 2011 @02:55PM (#2585068)

>Death is as much a part of life as birth. It will not be eliminated unless you eliminate life. To think otherwise is a denial of reality.

The immortal Turritopsis nutricula jellyfish would beg to differ.

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