Thanks for the history. I'm just kind of sad that it's necessary to explain that it's a Beatles song.
Are people really this fixed on things like the Bell Riots?
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If only there was a dislike button.The Spanish Flu and Covid are not comparable. I don't know anyone who died of Covid, not one person. I'm not denying the pandemic, just denying that it's comparable to the Spanish fly. I almost myself almost died of Covid 3 years ago. Part of why I almost died, my family wrote it off as, "Oh, it's basically the flu."
President Biden's got dementia and has no idea what the hell he is doing. I can't wait until he's out of office and our economy gets back on track. The 2020's have been the shittiest decade since I joined the work force.
The economy was booming under Trump, why do you think it won't be booming under his second term?
Why do you call him Convict Don? What's he convicted of? Anyone can call someone they don't like a silly name, but this communicates zero information.
Under Trump's first Presidency, we were not involved in any wars, were we? Why would his 2nd Presidency be different? Why do you think Trump wants to hand over Ukraine to Putin? What is the motivation and gain?
Then why bring it up?
The world is not on the brink. Turn off the TV, get off your phone, go outside. It's a beautiful day.
There's not.
Perhaps because those others are not obsequious paragons of superstitious nincompoopery.
So weird to think "Past Tense" is now in the "past".
Escape from New York --> 1997
2001: A Space Odyssey --> 2001
Back to the Future, Part II --> 2015
Blade Runner --> 2019
Star Trek: Picard Season 2 --> Spring 2024
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - "Past Tense" --> August 30th - September 2nd, 2024
November 28th, 2024 <-- We Are Here
12 Monkeys --> 2043
The Jetsons --> 2062
Star Trek: First Contact --> April 4th-5th, 2063
November 18th, 2115 <-- 100 Years, starring John Malkovich, directed by Robert Rodriguez will be released.
Alien --> 2122
The future's passing us by!
And, yes, the thing about 100 Years is true! It's a movie none of us will be alive to see.
Escape from New York --> 1997
2001: A Space Odyssey --> 2001
Back to the Future, Part II --> 2015
Blade Runner --> 2019
Star Trek: Picard Season 2 --> Spring 2024
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - "Past Tense" --> August 30th - September 2nd, 2024
November 28th, 2024 <-- We Are Here
12 Monkeys --> 2043
The Jetsons --> 2062
Star Trek: First Contact --> April 4th-5th, 2063
November 18th, 2115 <-- 100 Years, starring John Malkovich, directed by Robert Rodriguez will be released.
Alien --> 2122
The future's passing us by!
And, yes, the thing about 100 Years is true! It's a movie none of us will be alive to see.
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Listing the shows in chronological order has made me a lot more interested in watching The Jetsons and seeing where that story goes, because it turns out that the show takes place in eventful times!
Will Judy go out on a date with a Vulcan?
How does Spacely Space Sprockets incorporate FTL Drive?
Will Mr. Spacely scream, "Jetson! You're fired!!!!" after George gets Zephram Cochrane the wrong tequila?
What will Jane think of the Home Shopping Network on Deneb IV?
Okay, that’s enough from everyone. If we can’t keep this thread on track I’m just going to lock it.
Even if longevity escape velocity or reversible human biostasis don't enable older people alive right now to see it, there are certainly some young people who will live to see it as nonagenarians, centenarians, and supercentenarians. A fifteen-year-old might be reading this very thread and go on to see the film when she's 106!
Well, there's no way I'll make it to 136, but if medical science proves me wrong, I'm watching 100 Years! It better not be crap. 
Telomeres dictate a human lifespan of about 120 years. We can live longer than 120 if someone can overcome the telomeres shortening over time.Well, there's no way I'll make it to 136, but if medical science proves me wrong, I'm watching 100 Years! It better not be crap.
I lost three friends to COVID, so I'm pretty terse with folks who deny the seriousness of the pandemic. I caught it myself about a year ago but was fortunate to do so after the development of vaccines and treatment.
As for the economy, rampant inflation was to be expected when pent-up demand crossed with supply-chain bottlenecks. The resultant inflation was a world-wide phenomenon, a fact which domestic American partisans conveniently deny.
As for the economy, rampant inflation was to be expected when pent-up demand crossed with supply-chain bottlenecks. The resultant inflation was a world-wide phenomenon, a fact which domestic American partisans conveniently deny.
I am sorry for your loss. I almost died, I had to beg my family to take me to the hospital, because they were trying to play off my 10-day struggle to breath as a "panic attack."
When I finally did get to the ER, my family tried to convince them it was "just a panic attack," minimizing my healthcare to almost nothing. Literally all I got was a prescription for prednisone and sent home. Thankfully, that worked: my lungs popped open like uncorked wine, and oxygen came rushing into my lungs right away.
At 45, you might be halfway through your lifespan as allowed by healthy living and current medicine, so if you would've died in your eighties or nineties with the medicine of today, advances over the next half century might enable you to live at least slightly longer than that. The first people to benefit from longevity therapies will extend their healthspans and lifespans without reaching longevity escape velocity, but at some point, senescence will be reversible as fast and then faster than it occurs. Andrew Steele thinks we may be only one hundred billion dollars away from a cure for aging, and since several billion dollars are spent on longevity research each year, you could live to see LEV if his estimate is correct. However, I'm more pessimistic and think senescence may be so complex that we may be trillions of dollars and centuries away from LEV.
Even so, I think some of those who—at surprisingly modest cost—enter cryostasis before LEV have at least a slim chance of being reanimated after LEV. The most advanced human cryopreservation technology available today is still far from the perfected suspended animation that was available by the 1990s in Star Trek (as depicted in "Space Seed" and "The Neutral Zone"), but it can prevent ice crystals and fractures from forming in the brain and incurs less cytotoxicity than in our twentieth century, and we could benefit from decades of additional improvements.
So, I don't think it's entirely impossible for me at 33—nor you at 45, nor even Tomiko Itooka at 116—to see 100 Years (albeit probably not for at least twice as many) and read all one hundred novels in the Future Library. People born as far back as 1893 have been in cryostasis since as early as 1967, so perhaps a few people who died before the movie was even conceived (including a handful who were born even before the advent of cinema!) will ultimately live to see it.
John Malkovich wrote it, so perhaps it's not! All that's publicly known is that it's a short film.It better not be crap.
There are three teasers ("that have nothing to do with the movie itself") imagining utopian, dystopian, and postapocalyptic versions of 2115.
That's part of it, yes.
Jeanne Calment lived to be 122 years and 164 days old.
It's not 120 and drop dead the next day, it's "about" 120. If you eat well, stay fit, don't drink and do drugs, dodge injuries and illness, there's no reason not to reach 100+ or even about 120.
Oh, there most certainly is! Genetics is the overriding factor.
Even amongst those with the healthiest lifestyles, almost none live to 100, whereas centenarians and supercentenarians are frequently found to have poor health habits including smoking, drinking, and diets high in salt, sugar, and fat. For instance, Richard Overton lived to 112 despite whiskey, cigars, and full butterfat ice cream every day, and Jeanne Calment was a light daily smoker for 97 of her 122 years (she also frequently drank port wine and had a typical French high-fat diet). Also, Ernst Jünger was wounded fourteen times in the First World War, including nearly fatally, but lived to 102.
Out of eight billion people, only around three quarters of a million are centenarians according to research by the United Nations, a rarity of about one in eleven thousand. By 2100, the UN projects twenty-five million centenarians out of ten billion people, a rarity of about one in four hundred (this assumes no longevity therapies are developed by then). We should thus expect only around fifteen thousand supercentenarians by then.
Based on the survival rate of centenarians to 110, the Gerontology Research Group estimates there are only, at most, 450 living supercentenarians worldwide; meaning there's one supercentenarian for every eighteen million people.
Also, the odds are far worse for men than for women. Only fifteen percent of centenarians are male, and that may drop to ten percent for supercentenarians. (Even after correcting for males' increased exposure to violence, danger, and bad diets, women still have a significant physiological advantage.)
Only seventy-five people (including just three men) have verifiably lived to 115, and Jeanne Calment remains the only person verified to have reached 120.
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That would mean absolutely everything must be retconned eventually.
Honestly, that's how comic books have worked for generations now.
Says the guy who is old enough to remember when Iron Man was injured in Viet Nam, when the Fantastic Four were racing to beat the Russkies to the moon, when Captain America was traumatized by Watergate, when Doctor Doom teamed up with Henry Kissinger, and when Spider-Man cracked jokes about Nixon and "I Am Curious (Yellow)".
Ditto with the Bond movies. Remember Sean Connery joking about the Beatles in "Dr. No."
As I like to joke, there's a reason Lois Lane doesn't wear pillbox hat anymore, and why Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys have cell phones these days.
Any long-running fictional property needs to get a facelift occasionally.
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