LOL at the thread.
Hmm, let me see. I'd learn all languages, read all the books and understand all forms of science known to man. then I'd find a way to make safe copies out of all of that and store the total human knowledge… and hopefully pass it on to whatever next mammal (hopefully mammal) species would dominate the earth after humanity is gone.
…or I'd just go into tyranny and dominate the earth myself *evil laugh*
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My weird immortality question....
Now that I'm a MacCleod:
I'd travel and do everything and learn and become an antiques dealer. Why not you'd have first hand experience with what you sell? One problem, in about 800 years or so the odds would catch up to you and you would have a fatal accident.
And of course look for the Kurgan, THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE!
I'd say I'd milk it for all it's worth. Become some kinda low-class deity, sell diet and exercise books, etc. I'm of the mind that, if you do turn out immortal, a lot of people are going to be 'gunning" for you, but if you make yourself a very public figure it gets a little harder. It's not easy to abduct Tom Cruise, and people are gonna notice if he goes missing. Aside from which I don't really trust my ability to disappear and start up a new life. I'd probably get into acting; maybe start up a franchise character like James Bond and I can play him indefinitely.
That's a good idea. Learn all you can about the Martial Arts, then camp up on a high mountain that's almost inaccessible and become a legendary Martial Arts master who will teach only those pupils who can make it up the mountain as well as have the patience to wait at the gates to be chosen…
And when the come in and the doors have closed, quietly kill them and dispose of the body. ;)
Make the planet a better place without elite fighting obsessed people… who could one day challenge YOU for supremacy! 0_0
With an indefinite lifespan, stuff like martial arts, fame, money, and even conquering people would become trivial and unimportant. You'd be more interested in longer term things after a while… Like guiding the course of nations maybe, perhaps you'd become someone like Henry Kissanger, just more powerful and secretive.
But even that wouldn't matter after a while. Maybe you'd see what it was like to live like a bum for a millennia or two? If nothing can hurt you then that would be fine and quite interesting. After you got used to the smell.
if I become immortal, then I'd proably just do what everyone here said they would do….
but not all at once. it's like I would like to ease into this whole immortality bit, etc… and then just eventally try out everything and do everything intersting enough for me.
Just to gain expernices from that sort of thing. I'd proably even try to do all the crazy things that people said they'd do, just to tell everyone here what it was like. :P
probably shoot my ass into space for a little while. no space suit or anything like that. then drink a lot….I don't know how magical this immortality thing is? But without a suit in space it's going to be mighty cold, plus you get severe sunburn… That's assuming the immortality thing protects you against exploding.
Yeah, how magical is the immortality?
-If it just protects against age, that's fragile, but not too much of a logical jump You can manage this with huge advances in medicine perhaps. Except you couldn't do much with it except live and be careful as usual.
-If you don't have to eat or breathe, and you're forever 20, but still vulnerable to injury and death, then that's weirdly selective. You'd need magic or advanced technology to maintain you if this is the case. You still can't do much with this and you probably shouldn't eat or drink in case you mess yourself up.
-If you're immortal and invulnerable, this would definitely mean magic or amazingly super advanced tech. You could do all sorts of amazing things, but the extreme downside is that you couldn't interact with your environment in any normal human way: Most likely you'd no longer be able to feel much anymore because making you invulnerable negates a lot of the mechanism for feeling… no more hot, cold, pain, pleasure… and that's just the start. lol!
probably shoot my ass into space for a little while. no space suit or anything like that. then drink a lot….I don't know how magical this immortality thing is? But without a suit in space it's going to be mighty cold, plus you get severe sunburn… That's assuming the immortality thing protects you against exploding.
Yeah, how magical is the immortality?
-If it just protects against age, that's fragile, but not too much of a logical jump You can manage this with huge advances in medicine perhaps. Except you couldn't do much with it except live and be careful as usual.
-If you don't have to eat or breathe, and you're forever 20, but still vulnerable to injury and death, then that's weirdly selective. You'd need magic or advanced technology to maintain you if this is the case. You still can't do much with this and you probably shouldn't eat or drink in case you mess yourself up.
-If you're immortal and invulnerable, this would definitely mean magic or amazingly super advanced tech. You could do all sorts of amazing things, but the extreme downside is that you couldn't interact with your environment in any normal human way: Most likely you'd no longer be able to feel much anymore because making you invulnerable negates a lot of the mechanism for feeling… no more hot, cold, pain, pleasure… and that's just the start. lol!
ahh yeah, i know it. but i was assuming it was full on "survive a Gamma Bomb and walk away unscathed" type immortality. it sounded to me like the nature of the question was to say basically, if there was no harmful repercussion [in this case DYING] what would you do if you could do anything. so i assumed it was a limitless question and if it's NOT limitless….WELL MABY I'LL DO THOSE THINGS ANYWAYS!HAW!
I don't know how magical this immortality thing is? But without a suit in space it's going to be mighty cold, plus you get severe sunburn… That's assuming the immortality thing protects you against exploding.
Very cold, your blood will literally boil as the air escapes from your body, you'll be exposed to the WORST kinds of radiation, most of you will freeze, etc. You won't explode though. Turns out skin has just enough strength to hold you together in a vacuum.
Still, you'd get cancer. Alot of cancer. It's not really a disease, more of a mutation.
It would suck.
Good thing you specified a 20 year old body. Remember Tithonus of greek mythology. The Goddess Eos loved the mortal Tithonus so much that she begged Zeus to bestow him with immortality. Zeus granted it. Tithonus lived forever, but aged every day of it until he eventually shriveled up into a cricket, begging for death one tiny chirp at a time.
I'd hide myself away contemplating the universe and try to find enlightenment, free of the worries of the world.
this post reminds me of the man from earth http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0756683/ it's a little low budget indy film about a guy who claims he's 14,000 years old. he never ages but he can be hurt and killed. who ever wrote it thought a lot about what it would be like to live forever. i recommend this movie for anyone interested in this topic.
I think all women are already like that.i'd arm myself as a human bomb (You know so they can't detain me for an eternity, i'd explode when they get close)That'd be hillarious ^_^
Funniest evil villain idea ever lol!
Immortal Human Bomb Woman! Don't go near her or she'll explode herself! o_O
I'd simply wait until my atoms decayed and I was a block of lead to fix the whole not dying problem.If it's the kind of immortality that means a nuclear blast won't kill you, that means mere atomic decay isn't going to touch you either I'm afraid.
Because I'm pretty sure I'd be dead then.
Did anybody ever see the movie "Death Becomes Her"? It was kind of dumb movie, but it showed a very strange take on immortality, in that those who gained it needed to protect their bodies from harm, or they would live with their injuries forever. The two main characters found themselves having to patch the holes in their body and use spray paint to cover all of their blemishes.
hokay, assuming I was immortal,I would start out by working furiously on making a potion that makes people forget. I Imagine all the previous memorys would eventully drive you mad if your mind didn't decay.
after that, and assuming i was also invunrable, i would ride on a nuclear bomb a'la dr.strangelove.
if I wasn't invunrable, I'd probably work on being a mad scientist.
being immortal I would outlive all my oppersition, and not needing to eat, drink,or sleep, I could work on creating life without ditraction.
or, if Im lazy, i could just auction myself out as a sideshow freak.
'COME ONE, COME ALL, AND WITNESS THE AMAAAAAAAAAAAZING BRASAGO, THE UNDYING MAN!'
id probably crack up laughting on hearing that XD.
hokay, assuming I was immortal,I would start out by working furiously on making a potion that makes people forget. I Imagine all the previous memorys would eventully drive you mad if your mind didn't decay.
How much of your childhood do you remember? Your fifth birthday? What you ate for dinner exactly one week ago?
Memory buildup will not be a problem.
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