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[-] laxe@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

How would this make us immortal?

[-] JoeClu@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 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.

this post was submitted on 13 Jul 2023
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