{"id":95702,"date":"2019-09-02T12:22:26","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T19:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/whats-my-best-chance-of-living-forever"},"modified":"2019-09-02T12:22:26","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T19:22:26","slug":"whats-my-best-chance-of-living-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/whats-my-best-chance-of-living-forever","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s My Best Chance of Living Forever?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/whats-my-best-chance-of-living-forever2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This makes for a microcosm of people on the outside looking in who do not follow on a regular basis. A basic headline of living forever followed by comments of doubt or silliness and the heat death of the universe. Of the experts, I like Sinclair\u2019s answer best.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>What do hideous mall t-shirts, emo bands from the mid-aughts, and gorgeously-wrought realist novels about dissolving marriages have in common? Simply this assertion: Life Sucks. And it <em>does<\/em> suck, undoubtedly, even for the happiest and\/or richest among us, not one of whom is immune from heartbreak, hemorrhoids, or getting mercilessly ridiculed online.<\/p>\n<p>Still, at certain points in life\u2019s parade of humiliation and physical decay almost all of us feel a longing\u2014sometimes fleeting, sometimes sustained\u2014for it to never actually end. The live-forever impulse is, we know, driving all manner of frantic, crackpot-ish behavior in the fringier corners of the tech-world; but will the nerds really pull through for us on this one? What are our actual chances, at this moment in time, of living forever? For this week\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/c\/giz-asks\" rel=\"nofollow\">Giz Asks<\/a>, we spoke with a number of experts to find out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This makes for a microcosm of people on the outside looking in who do not follow on a regular basis. A basic headline of living forever followed by comments of doubt or silliness and the heat death of the universe. Of the experts, I like Sinclair\u2019s answer best. What do hideous mall t-shirts, emo bands [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":388,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95702","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=95702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}