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> News flash for everyone, death is inevitable As far as we know there is nothing in the laws of physics about death (or life). It's all about fields and parti
by nova 13y ago
> News flash for everyone, death is inevitable
As far as we know there is nothing in the laws of physics about death (or life). It's all about fields and particles. Or maybe strings or loops or something else, but vitalism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitalism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitalism) is over.
So death "is" inevitable only because we don't know how to prevent it.
> How many more years must humanity be shackled to superstition and death fear before we fucking get over it and move on to the important work of getting off of this planet?
I'm totally okay with space colonization but conquering death (with science, I mean) seems like a more pressing issue. After all, even if we already had space colonies people would still die.
- dollar 13y agoPeople would still die indeed. But I think technologically our odds favor tackling the issue of colonization over death. If we remain here on this planet, death of the entire species is a certainty. That could happen a lot sooner than people think.