{"id":182147,"date":"2024-02-06T16:25:25","date_gmt":"2024-02-06T22:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/would-we-want-to-live-forever"},"modified":"2024-02-11T06:51:58","modified_gmt":"2024-02-11T12:51:58","slug":"would-we-want-to-live-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/would-we-want-to-live-forever","title":{"rendered":"Would We Want to Live Forever?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aPTG8ytx3mA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>More deathism from Mr Tyson. Really I\u2019m a big fan but I dislike this sort of thinking. I commented on the vid.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>What if we could live forever? Neil deGrasse Tyson takes us through life and death: if we could live forever what would life really mean? We explore why fresh flowers have meaning and why dogs make every day count. Learn about the Cretaceous-Tertiary Event, The Permian-Triassic Extinction, The Holocene Epoc, and how Earth is one killing machine.<\/p>\n<p>Get the NEW StarTalk book, \u2018To Infinity and Beyond: A Journey of Cosmic Discovery\u2019 on Amazon: <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3PL0NFn\">https:\/\/amzn.to\/3PL0NFn<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Support us on Patreon: \/ startalkradio.<\/p>\n<p>FOLLOW or SUBSCRIBE to StarTalk:<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/would-we-want-to-live-forever\">Continue reading \u201cWould We Want to Live Forever?\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More deathism from Mr Tyson. Really I\u2019m a big fan but I dislike this sort of thinking. I commented on the vid. What if we could live forever? Neil deGrasse Tyson takes us through life and death: if we could live forever what would life really mean? We explore why fresh flowers have meaning and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":388,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,269,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-existential-risks","category-life-extension","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/388"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182147"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182481,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182147\/revisions\/182481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}