Screenshot of a Mastodon post - A picture of the bridge of the Enterprise-D from Star Trek The Next Generation’s first season. In it are Captain Picard, Doctor Crusher, and Wesley Crusher in the Captain’s chair.

The text reads:
“Wil Wheaton is now five years older than Patrick Stewart was in the pilot of Star Trek the next generation. Have your bones demineralized and fallen apart yet?”

Original post @ Mastodon

  • Mnemnosyne@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    72·
    1 month ago

    To be fair, there is someday going to be a generation where that doesn’t happen (assuming humans don’t obliterate themselves first). Eventually it’s practically a certainty that we will develop the means to preserve humans indefinitely.

    • Dasnap@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 month ago

      I wonder if we do ever create some form of immortality, if we discover that the human psyche has some kind of ‘wall’ where a person just doesn’t want to live anymore. Not due to health or personal life issues, just that there is a time limit on sanity that we don’t know about.

      • aeronmelon@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
        2·
        1 month ago

        That’s a very common trope in sci-fi. More recently, I remember it from In Time with Justin Timberlake.

      • CommanderCloon@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        1 month ago

        I’d be fine with being biologically immortal and having the option to choose when to die, that seems absolutely perfect to me

    • Technotica@lemmy.worldEnglish
      33·
      1 month ago

      You may achieve biologic immortality, but you will still age mentally, get jaded and bored. Unless someone also invents being mind wiped after so many centuries. But then you might as well just die normally again right? What is the difference between a person who has no memory of their past and a new person.