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Comment author: Jayson_Virissimo 13 November 2012 11:57:44AM -1 points [-]

For if any of those earlier experiments in optimism had succeeded, our species would be exploring the stars by now, and you and I would be immortal.

Or, more accurately, you and I would be non-existent and some other group of beings would be quasi-immortal.