Just because I'm a curious idiot....

WHAT IF we could all live to be 150 years old or so and stay as mentally alert and healthy as we are now (),

What Universe/Planetary/Space questions would you want answered or mysteries would you like to see proven to be fact??? Limit two short answers.

Personally, I'd like to see detailed pictures of any Kuiper Belt Objects and Oort Cloud Objects up close, and what interstellar space looks like looking back towards the Sun. Completely beyond the Solar System boundary where Voyagers I & II are now.
Just getting there would answer allot of questions, and create a billion more.

How to deal with overpopulation...

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But you're sure the astronauts are lying; you just don't seem to know what they're lying about: Jayutah


I are Learnding.

Life isn't so short. After all, it's the longest thing you can do.

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Brett
Peters Creek, Alaska

How to live longer, 150 just ain't enough.

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"If this were play'd upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction."
Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
Illuminati's Razor-The most complicatedly evil answer is usually the most correct answer. - Fazor
"Every book is a children's book if the kid can read." - Mitch Hedberg
"Distance doesn’t matter much in space, where if you just start a thing off with the right kind of shove, sooner or later it will get where you want it to go." -Frederik Pohl, Mining the Oort

As mentally healthy as I am now? Now, there's a loaded statement.

Um, how to figure out which psychological drugs work on which patients without the tedious trial-and-error system we have now?

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Gillian

"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

It's a scientifically proven fact that people who have the most birthdays live the longest

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But you're sure the astronauts are lying; you just don't seem to know what they're lying about: Jayutah


I are Learnding.

Well, if that's true, from now on I'm going to try to have at least one a week!

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Iyam what Iyam

Unless you were born on a leap year that is.


If I could live to 150 I'd like to see a probe sent to a nearby star. And cities that move on giant hydrolic legs, just for kicks :

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"Bessie Braddock to Churchill "Winston, your drunk!"
Churchill: "Bessie, you're ugly, and tomorrow morning I shall be sober""
the solar system

That'll likely happen in the next 50 years. Are you 100 years old already?

A senior friend very bright & fit until death said to me on his 90th birthday, "you know, tj, you can live too bloody long..." He still drove himself and his second wife down to Florida every winter at that age. But he missed all his old pals who had died before him. Died when he was 96.

And they said that paraplegics would be able to walk again within the decade in 1970... :s

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"Bessie Braddock to Churchill "Winston, your drunk!"
Churchill: "Bessie, you're ugly, and tomorrow morning I shall be sober""
the solar system

Depends on the "THEY". I never heard a neurologist say that, or anyone else who knew the problems.
But now it's 2008, we know much much more and the problem Gilianren wants solved is not as difficult as making & connecting new neurons.

Perhaps not, but it is awfully important to me.

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Gillian

"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

Of course. I gathered that from some of your posts on other threads. But there's hope of major advances that are not daydreams, so be of good cheer

Yes but 97.3% of those people will die at some point in their lives.

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Brett
Peters Creek, Alaska

And the rest not long after.

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"If this were play'd upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction."
Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
Illuminati's Razor-The most complicatedly evil answer is usually the most correct answer. - Fazor
"Every book is a children's book if the kid can read." - Mitch Hedberg
"Distance doesn’t matter much in space, where if you just start a thing off with the right kind of shove, sooner or later it will get where you want it to go." -Frederik Pohl, Mining the Oort

I'll settle for ten more guaranteed years. I want to see the solar eclipse in the western US in 2017. The path of totality goes over my house. Although I want to be on a headland on the coast if possible.

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The Devil offered me power. I told him I preferred aperture.

Assuming it's clear that day, of course, which is not a safe assumption around here.

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Gillian

"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

August, isn't it? A decent chance.

Any excuse to hit the coast.

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The Devil offered me power. I told him I preferred aperture.

How about as much as we were ten years ago? Can we roll back the odometer a little? I won't tell...

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"If this were play'd upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction."
Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
Illuminati's Razor-The most complicatedly evil answer is usually the most correct answer. - Fazor
"Every book is a children's book if the kid can read." - Mitch Hedberg
"Distance doesn’t matter much in space, where if you just start a thing off with the right kind of shove, sooner or later it will get where you want it to go." -Frederik Pohl, Mining the Oort

Yeah, a nearby star was among my first thoughts also, but seeing how Voyager I & II have barely left the Solar System after 35 years, I was assuming "IF" they would start the program today............ (as quickly as these things develope)

I figured 150 years would be about the limit of my brain's capacity to hold onto all the mind numbing stuff involved with the Universe. That single cell has to explode sooner or later!!

The mobile city idea is intriguing!