Well, since this is a largely pedantic essay, let me dive right in.

Never dying is cheating yourself of one of the key parts of being alive.

The point of this research is not radical life extension in that you’re hooked up to a machine all day - it’s really to make your body perpetually youthful.

The opposite actually, the idea is to preserve quality for as long as possible.

Does that mean much of anything? If you don’t want to share the world with Peter Thiel, and you don’t want to cheat yourself out of a human experience, no one is preventing you from ending it. Creating life extension gives you a choice.

High up in the North in the land called Svithjod, there stands a rock. It is a hundred miles high and a hundred miles wide. Once every thousand years a little bird comes to this rock to sharpen its beak. When the rock has thus been worn away, then a single day of eternity will have gone by.

—Hendrik Willem Van Loon

Yeah no shit. A buddy of mine recently got diagnosed with advanced lymphoma of the more treatable variety. However, its advanced progression means it’s way more fear-of-death-inducing right now than anything he (or I) have ever faced. Both of us have been deployed to Afghanistan (he’s been to Iraq as well) and in my…

It’s impressive how casually “space colonization” and “megastructures in space” are tossed off as potential solutions to some of the problems created by longevity, like the challenges of long term human habitation off-planet are something to which we just need to apply a little more gumption.

It’s not that you never want to die, just not right now.

Nope. Dying is for suckers.

I would absolutely take the proteins they gave to mice to stop the aging process. It’s not the fear of dying, just, why the hell would I want to die if I don’t have to? Look how far technology has come in 100 years. Humans are going to be doing so much sweet shit in 200 more years, blasting off to weekend getaways on…

(vomits)

This is goooooooooood.

It’s lucky for the golfers that, much like the Tiger they encountered on tour, most of these animals don’t pose a threat.

So serious I can’t even make a Constantinople joke.

Tyler left because of YOU. We all miss him.

Fifty Shades of Radar-Absorbent Gray.

If you saw that as and thought romance novel, you've been single for far too long.

It’s okay to love your jet ... just don’t LOVE your jet!!