• Alien Surfer@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Man I wish NASA (or some private pioneer) would send an archeology team (human or robot) to find evidence of precious life. Like dinosaurs or something. If you discovered that, you’d be immortal.

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        1 year ago

        It is said men have two (2) deaths. The first is physical. The second is when your influence in the world is no longer felt and your name has been spoken for the very last time.

        As the great author Terry Pratchet has proclaimed, “No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away…”

        So it is in that vein in which my use of the word “immortal” was intended. Immortal was used in a purposefully exaggerated way to impress upon the reader the great significance and glory of the discoverer in making such a discovery.

        My comment was intended in a poetic light, rather than logically or scientifically.