DO I have to live for those billion years? I feel like eventually it'd get boring as shit.

There's always something new to see or do across the entirety of the universe.

Living that long doesn't guarantee you'll be able to travel to much of it tbh.
Even if everything works out technically science-wise, still need the infrastructure, materials, position of power etc

You have plenty of time to set it up yourself with that much time.

That's assuming everything that can go wrong doesn't. Wars, climate change, disease, getting hit by a drunk driver, your own mental health.
Waaaay too many variables

So much pessimism~.

Live for long enough and you'll change so much you might as well be living a new life. It only really takes the length of one life time to be done with it or go mad.

I don't know if I could spend a billion pounds in one lifetime either, I'm not one to be extravagant in my living but I'd definitely use that money to fund my animation and comic projects first.

choose one or im hunting you with dogs

Billion pounds. Don't send the hunting chihuahuas after me.

Wealth is a cancer, I'd rather just enjoy this universe for as long as I can.

I'd take a billion years. The idea I can draw art pretty much forever is a selling point for me.

So, how long until you have drawn everything you ever wanted to draw? A thousand years, maybe? Then what?

Well given how my workflow has been pretty slow, I'd probably be done within a million instead. XD

The money. Insuring that I, and everyone I know and care about, can live without want or worry for the rest of our lives, or simply exist to see our planet (in the words of Omni Man) turn to dust and blow away? Yeah, easy choice, no contest.

As an American:: live for a billion years
If I was British or English:: a billion pounds

Being American for a billion years sounds like a terrible fate

Nah.
There are great things. And it would be fun to see how things further evolve.
Only thing Id be fearful for is to see certain types of evil eventually topple and ruin everything great....under the disguise of 'we can do it better / we are freeing X people from X thing, now unto new management'...which will be a coin-flip if it will be any better or worse, then after X amount of years, a New political X will rise up and demands changes from THAT system.

I admit, it would be interesting to witness how many times Humanity will repeat itself.
The Sins they talk about being Virtues...but are just Sins under a new coat of paint

man, being american for just 2 minutes seems like agony just from this comment

Only when politics are present.

aint that true everywhere
some are just further along the wrong path than others

Politics are Eternal.
Its amusing that they seem to get worse over time, everywhere.

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Would I still have to pay upkeep for that billion years?

A billion pounds of extra body weight sounds sick, I'd instantly die and that's a service everyone could benefit from.

wouldnt they get crushed under you if that was the case?

The additional casualties are none of my concern I'll be dead

Billion pounds. I don't want to keep having to watch everyone I love and care about die.

Billion pounds. What a nightmare to live for so long.

A billion pounds as in currency? Or a billion pounds as in weight? 0_0

I take tha money. I already grow tired of living. 😩

the money, don't even have to think about it.

I don't think human beings are meant to live that long. You'd have to ascend to a higher being to even take advantage of something like that. The human brain is so small that you'd probably become a goop of half forgotten memories by the time you hit a thousandth of your lifetime.

Billion Years.

I want to live long enough in order for magic to be discovered, so I can be a brooding wizard pondering my orb at the top of my tower.

100% the money. You cant predict the horrors you'll face in those billion years.

Well, if you have a billion pounds, you're probably an astral body and so will be around for a billion years.

Oh, you mean money. Billion years, obviously, because the pound sterling ain't gonna be worth SHIT.

Fuck me, that's way too long. No, no, the 80-odd years of this circus will be plenty, thank you very much.

A billion pounds of WHAT, though...

me >:)

That's a lifetime supply of Insect Ambient, I'm alright with that, thank u.

God forbid I live that long, I already had enough and it's still going and going

what if I live for a billion years to eventually get a billion pounds?

1 billion pounds: buy a crab
1 billion years: evolve into a crab
i think the answer is obvious here

1 billion crabs or a 1 billion ton crab?

Living for a billion years is the absolute worst curse I can imagine. No thanks.

since its only a question of being alive and not immortal for the time you could always end it early when you got tired of it after some 10,000 years if you wanted

It's a matter of interpretation.

Live for a billion years, obviously.

Why is it obvious?

Because death is sad and unnecessary? The world would tend to become paradise if people simply didn't die. People would learn the difficult lessons and move on, they would heal from their traumas and move on. Either way, they get better. Time and experience improves people. The person you'd be after a billion years would be happier and more capable, and a better influence on the world. The person you'd be after a billion dollars is probably just a sociopath.

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The world would tend to become paradise if people simply didn't die.
No, it would be overpopulated to the point of mass starvation, ecosystem collapse, and so on. There are only so many people this planet can support. And bad, greedy, and selfish people would still exist. Just because they would have more time doesn't necessarily mean that they would learn and get better.

Also, after a while, life would become stagnant and meaningless. Being able to experience new things is important. Also, we learn to treasure life and make the most of every day through knowing that we don't have infinite time. What would you do when you have experienced everything, seen everything, done everything? When there is nothing left to experience or learn? You would get extremely bored. Most people would probably go insane in less than a few thousand years.

Death can be sad, yes, but it can also be the peaceful conclusion of a life spent well.

And it is actually necessary. Life on this planet as a whole is a cycle. If there is birth, there has to be death. It's just how the Universe works - for each thing to exist, its opposite has to exist too.


The person you'd be after a billion dollars is probably just a sociopath.
Money is power, and power can corrupt, yes. But it doesn't necessarily have to. And I can think of a lot of things I could use that money for that would make the world a little better. Funding projects that solve problems in third-world countries, funding nature preservation and restoration, opening my own horse rescue and shelter, opening an art school that offers free tuition to people who really want to learn art but can't afford it, funding cancer research... just off the top of my head.

a billion pounds is nothing in comparison to having the time of a billion years
have a billion years and you can get both over time and more
+you dont have to live all of it if you end up spending all your time just suffering since being able to be alive and being immortal unable to die is not the same

had it been a question of a billion years of immortal life then i might have made some more consideration since being immortal does not save you from the potential of being buried alived and forgotten for a billion years suffering all the while

hmmmmm. hard choice. could live in suffering for so long, or could spend a bunch o money and die quick. hmmm!

Honestly, a billion pounds is a great way to invest in a better future with improving infostructures and economic crises. I couldn't handle the concept of outliving all of my family members and my love partners and becoming a bitter all-seeing hermit that only see the dark side of humanity or life itself.

Nice answer.

Thanks. I sometimes ask myself "Do I really want to live forever if it means losing precious memories of people and never emotionally connecting with mortals witnessing constant rises and downfalls of societies?" a lot. Heck, I know I'm not going draw furry porn forever.

Live for a billion years of course, maybe even forever if that's possible. So that I can try to understand how universe came to be. So I can see more of the world. So that I get to become my fursona in the future or something.