I guess even a republican can be right?

Who, the guy I replied to who expects to be around in a trillion years and wants to live forever? Yeah, peak republican right there.

What you really want to do is put out the stars sooner then, and feed all the hydrogen into the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy. Dump in all the mass in the galaxy and all of its satellites and everything from Andromeda and its satellites too and it will grow. Nudge Andromeda’s central black hole into orbit around ours so that they merge, etc, etc. Grow it big enough and and you can build a Birch World around it, with a surface area larger than all the planets in those galaxies put together. All of the exploration with none of the boring travel in between interesting places! You can seed it with life from every planet your civilization ever encountered and watch all those ecosystems compete and hybridize as you while away the years. How many years would you have?

While dumping matter into a black hole destroys the matter, it doesn’t destroy the mass. It just confines all of the mass in one place. Powering your Birch World is just a matter of using the Penrose process to extract energy from the black hole for the next few million trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion years (about 3×10¹⁰⁴ years give or take a few). The stars will only last for about a million trillion years (10²⁰ years plus or minus a bit), so this plan extends your your lifetime by a factor of a trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion years.

Maximal extension perhaps, but not quite forever. Forever takes a lot more work.

man, I couldn't think of anything worse - except maybe dynamic types

Technically you can live forever in a universe that is completely empty, it'll just be a lot of cold dark nothing for eternity.

Living forever is such a strange desire, considering that complex life has existed on earth for just a fraction of the time it has existed, and humanity even less than that. I recommend watching the Kurtzgesagt video called All of History in one hour (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7TUe5w6RHo&t=3670s). It displays all of earths history in one hour, and humanity is merely a few seconds of it.

Earth is ~4.5 billion years old, that's 4500000000 years, and in 1300000000 years it will be uninhabitable by humans, and in another 4.5 billion years (roughly 3.2 billion years after becoming uninhabitable) it will be engulfed by the sun.

Assuming humanity manages interstellar space flight you could possibly escape earth and live somewhere else until that also dies, but in case it is not practical or possible, you get to enjoy 3.2 billion years of literally choking and being burned alive on earth.

Assuming you did escape earth (or you're immortal so escaping doesn't matter) In 1000000000000 years the last star will be born, and in 100000000000000 years the last star will die out.

You now have an extremely long time to enjoy suffocating in hard vacuum with your body being boiled by the low pressure, and all in complete darkness until the heat death of the universe occurs in roughly 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 years

Are you sure? At some point you have heard every possible joke that can be told in a timeframe of 10 minutes, 1000 times.

>Since I'd like to live forever, then yes.

Please read this article first before damning yourself to an unimaginable hell.

https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/11/1000000-grahams-number.html

I have to imagine that very few people would make statements like this if we lived in a universe where there was any real danger of it happening. It would be interesting to talk to humans that have lived even a few hundred subjective years, if any existed. That seems to be enough time to lead to very different perspectives on something like immortality. Given the information storage constraints of our minds, I wonder if there is even some age that makes immortality subjectively different than very long life. We don't seem to be capable of remembering even a full decade of experience. By the time you reach a few hundred years of age, would you have any memories at all of your first century? You might not have experienced a single "death" event, but the "you" that was born may have long since died.