One of the most important and exciting things that we can spend time doing is looking for ways to extend life, especially including the healthy life span of humans. For instance, check out this Ted Talk by Aubrey de Grey. He discusses how we have the potential to legitimately slow down the aging process, or invent some sort of therapy by which we can extend the healthy periods of our lives. The coolest thing about his idea is the potential. Not only could we, for instance, start with having an extra 30 years of healthy life; we could very realistically, in a short span of time, expand such technology to extend life by 50 years or 100 years. There is not necessarily an upper limit on how effective we could become at increasing the duration of life, to the point of having no higher chance of death as time passes. I am far from an expert in this field, but its an idea and direction of research that would certainly help increase the basic potential of human life, especially if the technology was open-sources and available to everyone.

Welcome to the forum for The Ragnarök Project! There are a few rules to keep in mind regarding usage of this space. First, please be respectful at base level. Any discussions that turn into character attacks, insults, or anything that is found to be subtracting from the conversation will be documented and removed. Second, use of profanity does not constitute lack of respect. Be excited about shit. The world is awesome. Don't use profanity against anyone else, but please feel free to be as passionate about your topic as you can be. Keep it within reason, or as above, it will be documented and removed. Third, no hate speech of any type will be tolerated. Any references to race, gender, ethnicity, or anything people can get offended over, unless spoken of for strictly academic purposes and with very explicitly good intent, will be documented and removed, and the account responsible will be questioned and likely removed. There is certainly room for more rules as we go. I am also looking for forum moderators to assist in various fields as the project expands. Moderators will be chosen on merit. For now, these guidelines should suffice. Thank you for reading, and welcome to the team!