In the future of space, it would be super easy to genetically

>>53073626
Resources, genetic purists, associated costs, etc. We live in an age where diseases that used to ravage entire generations are cured with an injection as a kid and people still protest them, and life-saving pills are kept locked behind pay barriers designed specifically to exploit those very people. It's not hard to imagine that all of these scenarios would still happen in a thousand years.

>>53073626
Expensive. Probably prices are held high artificially.
Only the richest people can afford to be elves.

>>53073626
You're not going to nearly expand territory to meet pace with population growth, regardless of how many useful planets there are. But still, advanced medicine will certainly enable living arbitrarily long, and enforcing early mortality isn't going to stand easily or for long. The real solution is to stem reproduction, which is easier than it sounds since eventually all immortal women will run out of ova. The balance will tip from needing to enforce sterilization to only having more children through special effort.

>>53073626
>Why would this not happen?

Everything could literally be perfect, affordable, reliable, and the science would be completely well researched with no flaws.

But they'll still be a group of cunts screaming their heads off that, "immortality causes space autism!!!!!!!!"

It's happened with literally every single major medical advancement with the exception of maybe penicillin because untreated gonoreaha/sphyillis was JUST THAT BAD of a disease.

>>53074398
Widespread availability of contraceptives has already brought about negative population growth in many western countries today. Any enlightened, immortal spacefaring species would almost certainly be able to control its population size in the same way.

>>53074546
And let's not forget the faction of atheists who say that death is a good thing and that no one should want to live forever, because they seriously believe that the only reason people are able to enjoy anything is that they know they're going to die someday.

>>53073626
Certain people want to control everyone. The more humans there are, the harder this becomes. If we live on multiple planets, it is nearly impossible to control the whole race. Keep our numbers limited, and keep us on one planet... it's the only way.

>>53073626

Geratocracy. The younger generations feel depressed and lost waiting for centuries for the old man to die out in an accident, rise up and kills the old man.

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>>53073626
Why make your body immortal when it's easier to be an immortal brain in a jar watching anime?

>>53075469
U run out of anime in finite time.

>>53073626

Life Extension
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKmdc2AuXec

Life in a Space Colony, ep3: Early Interstellar Colonies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VBCxWcAPXw

>>53075483
It's an animesque simulation of a Japanese highschool.

Genetic engineering is hard. We can't even repair a car engine of simple steel when it's running, what makes you think fixing an organism composed of trillions of sub-machines will be easy?

>>53073626
research geneticist here: yes and no. It depends on what lengths you're willing to go to ethically, and what you mean by "forever".

>>53076474
As somebody who does just that for a living, I can tell you that its not that hard. The stumbling block we're at now is optimization, which is hard because our current ethical framework doesnt really support burning through living humans in the name of potentially optimizing a process.

>>53073626
>In the future of space, it would be super easy to genetically engineer everyone
What makes you think this premise is true, beyond: "but it's the future!"

>>53073626
This >>53073723
Watch jupiter ascending. Aristocrats and everyone with enough money to buy the life expanding elixir is inmortal.


There is also another movie in wich people are drained and turned into this blue elixir that also extends life. The elixir is known simply as "Blue" but i cant quite remember the bame of the film

>>53073701
>and life-saving pills are kept locked behind pay barriers designed specifically to exploit those very people.
The corporate healthcare hellscape is more of a American thing.

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>>53075483
Neural net procedurally generating unlimited animes that fit your exact tastes

>>53073626
>There's enough space when you have multiple planets.
Nope. Exponential growth is a bitch. We are talking about fuck tons of people here. All the planets we could reach within X time would not be enough to hold all the people and infrastructure for X time. Of course we could always make childbirth illegal but 'muh human rights' and all that.

>>53077414
America has best healthcare in world; if you can afford to pay for it.
Canada has pretty good healthcare; if you can afford to wait for it.

>>53077519
Assuming a magical post scarcity society, the entire human population could devout itself to the creation and admiration of artistic endeavors. Human produced anime > neural net anime.

>>53073701
>life-saving pills are kept locked behind pay barriers
are you retarded? you think people aren't invested in such a project? you think people don't have a desire to undercut eachother to the point of selling that drug cheaper to become an instant millionaire?