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Immortality, Smell Dating & Cliffhangers: The Dispatch Ep. 22


just because you don’t need to know
about these stories doesn’t mean they
won’t interest you okay welcome to
watchmojo.com and this is the dispatch
where we bring you the internet’s
weirdest and coolest news stories we’ve
got an emulation station here running
with all your different emulators this
week we’re looking at a major
cliffhanger dating by scent and cyber
immortality but only I can live forever
number three cliff caper people living
and working in LA no it has one of the
most frustrating commutes in the US and
a as a normal commute can take up to 81
percent longer during peak hours but the
daily grind take on a whole other
meaning this Monday for one motorists
narrowly escapes driving his SUV off of
a cliff
after losing control along Malibu Canyon
Road the motorist was left dangling over
a curb and just managed to climb out of
the vehicle disoriented and in shock
the motorist wandered into the road and
was struck by a passing tour bus but
somehow survived the ordeal you know
what I’m talking about he was treated by
the Los Angeles County Fire Department
and is currently recovering in a local
hospital glad he’s doing all right but
unless this was just a major shout out
to Steve Tyler and Aerosmith we are very
concerned that the Terminator has once
again returned
number two smell dating are you wearing
jean-paul Gaultier’s or him it’s just my
natural Musk mail-order brides
how about male odor brides scent is the
brainchild of two New York artists that
seek to match up potential lovers based
entirely on scent the service provides
single people with a t-shirt in the mail
which they are instructed to wear for
three days while simultaneously avoiding
deodorants and perfumes once three days
have passed the participants send the
t-shirt back and receives 10 t-shirts
from other singles scientific research
shows that you can tell things like
compatibility predisposition to illness
and so we’re really curious to see how
people make those decisions if two
participants determine one another’s
odor to be satisfactory scent provides
them with necessary contact information
but that’s it oh that is nutty
no details on gender sexual orientation
or age are provided an alternative to
the selfie saturated dating services
available to the public the project
points to study suggesting a link
between human attraction and body odor
she bounced to your every
participants would do well to avoid
their grandma’s basement any kind of
swamp or bog and that co-worker that
doesn’t know about the whole deodorant
thing my god what is that now oh that’s
a smell of desire milady god no it
smells like like a used diaper filled
with Indian food
number one cyber immortality this will
feel weird Fountain of Youth snake oil
potions what do they have in common
promises of agelessness what else
they’re all phony baloney for church oh
and yet we continue to try and find a
way to make ourselves immortal well
perhaps the answer is focusing less on
preserving our temporary meatsac bodies
and moving towards the preservation of
our true being
you know our brain mind consciousness
etcetera etc the technology to replicate
our brains on a computer will apparently
be achievable by 2050 ish according to
the likes of Stephen Hawking an inventor
and futurist Ray Kurzweil how well our
brain works like a computer program to
begin with sending functions via
electric signals when we can replicate
this on a powerful computer successfully
then we’ll have achieved cyber
immortality but as many have speculated
if we successfully upload a brain to a
program how do we know if it’s the
actual person’s brain or just a perfect
copy who is talking to me right now is
it you or is the sentient computer
pretending to talk on your behalf yeah
but how do I know that professor because
if computers have become sentient what
better way to convince people they
hadn’t then by co-opting the voice of
the most intelligent man on the planet
yikes we’ll have a synth problem of our
own soon
he’s the synth and he wants to replace
me please please you’ve got to believe
me you can’t let that thing do this so
would you want to be uploaded to a
computer alright don’t have an answer
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