Sergio wrote:That makes me ask: in a word where Methuselyzation took place, how would people feel?
I think, the subjective time will freeze with the speed it had when one took MT, or just will be still accelerating, but a lot slower. I don't think it depends on experience or lifespan, it depends on how much you give it a thought.
Anyway, there are methods to decrease it's speed, but they're quite... uncomfortable. For example, try looking at the clock each 5 minutes and say "Fuck, it's xx:xx already!
". It's important to synchronize the inner/subjective clock with the real ones.
Also, another method is to try to count exactly one minute as precise as possible, CONSTANTLY, NON-STOP. You won't last even 5 minutes, you will forget that you're counting right now - the subjective time will go as it used to. But while you were counting, that moment will last a lot longer.
Another thing is - when you're scared, subjective time slows down or even stops. I'm death afraid of flights, but I'll have to do it on this Friday and then two weeks later. If I won't die there, that flights will feel like eternity.
Sergio wrote:By the way, in real world, nanotechnology is believed to be common in fifty years (according to History Channel), and people are supposed to live 1,000 years. Wow! Will we be blessed with such a scientific miracle?
Ray Kurzweil wrote that it will be generally available about 2025. I really hope that and count on it.
However, if it will happen that time, it will only be available in the science leading countries and will come to others with additional 10 years per eschelon.
What about my country, the science is nearly dead here now and it's dying further. Everything created in USSR is lost or sold, government only pretends to promise care about science. You won't beleive this, but a physics/matematician/whatever PROFESSOR (you can call it PhD if you like) gets a salary of about 350$ a month, if he's lucky. A teacher at the university gets about 250+about 50 as bonuses. That's a shame.
However, researches about technology of raw material extraction (gas, oil, coal, and so forth) are greatly funded, because economics is based on raping the resourses. The saddest thing about it is that the resource deposits are in fact owned by the oligarchy, which has fused with the government, instead of the nation.
Nearly no high-tech is produced, these projects are needed just for stealing the budget money. The most recent example - the nanotech research.
About a year ago, there was a huge propaganda going about development of the nano technology, even the government corporation "Rosnano" was founded and about 1 BILLION $ were invested by the government. The year later, it has just disappeared with all it's money. Nearly no researches were done, if there were researches, they were a fake ones - just to pretend that "we are doing something".
The funniest thing is - after that, the functionary, who was the head of the company, was summoned by the prime minister to answer where did the money go, how they were used, and so on. His answer was simple: "They've DISAPPEARED!
". The prime minister was furious, but that functionary wasn't even punished. AT ALL. The guy has just stolen 1 bil $ and got away with it. COMPLETELY.
I don't know about other countries, where pulling such a thing will, most probably, lead to a realllly loooong inprisonment or just execution, he wasn't even stripped of his post. Now he is in the Forbes list, and also in the government.
The story is really funny, even if it's griefly sad - 90% of the functionaries are like him, this has became really common, not to mention. It's even taken for granted by everyone, no one even tries to hide it.
This thing is everywhere, just in different scale. Even in the university I'm studying in this is really obvious. About 2-3 years ago I've seen some teachers bursting in envy when they discovered that I was earning ten times more than they did. That is really sad and shameful.
I don't want to continue this topic further.
Also, to make everything completely clear.
I know that this can confuse most you, or seriously disappoint, but I'll say it. I think, I'm a lot younger than you guys (I expect most of you to be about 25 or so, and about 35-37 for Sergio).
I'm 20 and a half right now, I read lots of crazy books (which most of people don't beleive I've read - they say they're impossible to understand) - you know my preferences, and I look like a heavy drug junkie due to working nearly non-stop, still sparing some time for several hobbies I have.
Also I'm completely sociophobic and ex-communicated person. However, I have a girlfriend, which looks some similar to Alita without her knowing it. 
I think, you feel uncomfortable now - to overestimate me all that time. Anyway, I'm just curious - how really did you estimate my age?
) Seriously Elf and Zwolf were like an unabashed engine of fanservice generation. The innuendo-speak, the bunny suits, their gratingly cuteypie worthlessness in a fight... the list goes on. They seemed like characters from an entirely different series. Kishiro however, not being a hack, handled them as deftly as characters like that coulda been handled in the Alitaverse, but jeez did they seem out of place.
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