Why Conspiracy Theories?

[IdleRich]

There is a podcast series on BBC iPlayer called The Immortals. There are ten episodes but the first one has this guy Brian Johnson who is talking about how he regularly extracts blood plasma from his son (whom he also refers to as his blood boy) and injects it in himself, he also extracts plasma from himself and injects that in his father.

The first episode promises that the next episode will explain the science behind why they do this. The reason turns out to be that some Russian scientists connected an old mouse and a young mouse together in an attempt to approximate swapping their nervous systems... and the older one showed some benefits. So the best way to approximate that in humans is to inject young healthy plasma.

 

[IdleRich]

It would be funny if all the (hi)stories of vampires, Countess Bathory, films such as Dumplings etc turned out to be right... and just maybe they will in the long-term - could it be that the reason the idea of stealing someone's life-force or youth is so prevalent across cultures is cos there is a grain of truth in there somewhere... or is it just an obvious but incorrect answer that anyone who starts thinking about this will quickly arrive at?

One thing that does rather amuse me is to think of the ultra-rich who should be spending their time and money having all kinds of unimaginable fun that is completely out of reach of normal people... but instead they are wasting their time and money following insane diets and exercise regimens, using bizarre algorithms they've created which tell them exactly how to live so as to maximize their life spans. In short they are so busy trying to live forever that they don't live at all.

It's a kind of punishment that reduces people I would expect to be jealous of, to people I can feel sorry for.

 

[IdleRich]

It seems that a lot of these people (not all admittedly) are striving for immortality for them... not for the human race or for people who are going to cure cancer or solve the energy crisis, just for them. Cos they believe that being a billionaire means that they are special, and also, cos they got lucky and Facebook bought their app making them super rich, they think they are a new kind of super genius who will quickly figure out the secret to eternal youth the second they turn their attention to it despite the fact that humanity has been trying to find something like that for thousands of years with no appreciable success.

 

[Mr. Tea]

I think Pieter Thiel has had to deny being a vampire far more often than anyone who isn't actually a vampire ought to.

 

[mixed_biscuits]

The easiest way to extend lifespan is to dilate perceived time by doing lots of new things all the time.

 

[Mr. Tea]

The easiest way to extend lifespan is to dilate perceived time by doing lots of new things all the time.

Like riding a motorbike at 90 mph while smoking DMT?

 

[WashYourHands]

The easiest way to extend lifespan is to dilate perceived time by doing lots of new things all the time.