Live for 1000 years vs the ability to turn invisible.

or not, if you're invisible.

today i'd take invisible, but my fear of death and my fear of longevity are sort of canceling each other out so i may change my mind when one rises to the top.

But science also said we'd be living on the moon by now, so I mistrust science, which is clearly a smooth, oily talker.

And I wouldn't be bored -- my heavens! You have a chance to learn languages, read so many things, hear so many things -- you could really catch up with all the things you think you could in this lifetime but never in fact will. You'd see much suffering and loss along the way, to be sure -- a thousand year old person who died just yesterday, say, would have seen plenty of horrors -- but the benefits I think would be worth it. And having a long perspective would give you the chance to see something that those of us here and now could only guess at in terms of hopes, fears, aspirations, mindsets, whatever. Bring it on. :-)

(Humanity making the same mistakes over and over again, etc., that doesn't bother me -- I'm a history person, I already deal with that daily.)

BESIDES, I refuse to die until the Red Sox win the World Series.

... so, can I have 1500 years, maybe, speaking of which? 2500?

humanity making the same mistakes over and over again, and you basically can't do anything but sit back and watch

Naive as it might sound, I'm still a believer in...not progress with a capital P, but some sort of progress, however in fits and starts. Mistakes may be repeated and/or intensified -- no Industrial Revolution, no mechanism for the Holocaust to occur in, for instance. But still, I'd rather be here than even a hundred years ago -- hell, even fifty -- and there's still some sort of quixotic hope in my system.

Oh dear. Yeah, I can see where you would have problems with that. It strikes me as the complaint from someone who never had to sit in on a space-planning meeting for a library in a budget crunch.

this makes me so depressed. but not for the reason you'd think.

The future's overrated.

Seems as good a place as any to put this:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7553061.stm

Invisibility please.

is there any reason to desire invisibility other than to commit crimes?

teleportation over either

Getting into concerts and shit for free

The materials do not occur naturally but have been created on a nano scale, measured in billionths of a metre.

The team says the principles could one day be scaled up to make invisibility cloaks large enough to hide people

surely it's not as simple as just 'scaling' the principle up if they're working on nano levels. Then again, i have no idea how this works.

well i guess it could be used to hide unsightly objects, in otherwise attractive environments - pylons in fields. i guess that could be dangerous though lol.

or concealing expensive items in your house, that would otherwise be on show to evil burglars

why not just hide your whole house when you go out?

Imagine you did your job for a thousand years? no thank you!

teleportation over either

OTM

travel to distant planets, plz (assuming this doesn't come with the teleportation package).

Why would you keep your job for a thousand years? More than a few people retire wealthy after several decades and die even wealthier. Sensible financial planning is why Vampires are always loaded.

imagine running around in your invisibility cloak flashing people in the park

then getting hit by a car

the best part of being invisible: pretending to be a ghost and freaking out people for the lulz.

latebloomer otm.
living young for 1000 years doesn't exclude you from pain or incarceration. fuck that.
i'll take invisibility with the added walk-through-walls ability, though really teleportation with being assured that you wont get stuck in a wall would be the best.
freezing time would suck because you'd age a lot faster than everyone else.

i'd like to say 1000 years, but then again i'm a guy who despairs over a sunday afternoon with nothing to do.

How would one best fund a 1000 year long life? I want to pick that, but dread the thought of having to work throughout it, as mentioned above.

1000 years duh. Why would I need to be invisible.

to do everything you want to do that other people won't let you do and get away with it

or if you look really ugly one day...

after the first 100 years or so you'd probably be rich enough thru interest not to have to work?

here's a good one: either travel anywhere in space but only in the present time OR travel in time but only in your present space (e.g. if you wanted to go to 14th century or 25th century Tokyo you would first have to travel to Tokyo in the present)

If i can leave the planet and be assured of finding another technologically advanced civilization then I don't really care, as long as I can get far far away from here it doesn't matter if it's in time or space.