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04 Jul 2011, 3:42 pm

http://old.news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110704/lf_nm_life/us_ageing_cure

This is just the latest theory on longevity. There are other theories that state science adds 18 months to your life every 90 days, and that everyone under 25 currently will live to at least 120.

I don't know if I could take living to 150, much less 1000.

Your thoughts Ladies and Gentlemen.

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04 Jul 2011, 3:53 pm

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While I don't necessarily have a problem with extending the life span of those who fail to procreate, it's detrimental to the species to expand ones life span and pro-create.

The issue of the human brain also has to be addressed. Ultimately, our capacity to learn and remember is finite because the brain is a physically finite object. In order to record new memories we will eventually have to overwrite old ones, and there is still the issue of neural connections....we can only make so many.

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04 Jul 2011, 4:00 pm

PM wrote:

You are aware that this is most likely nonsense, yes?

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04 Jul 2011, 4:31 pm

That's ridiculous. We don't actually live much longer these days; it's just that fewer people die young from illness or accident, and the media doesn't know what the word "average" means.

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04 Jul 2011, 5:02 pm

I'm going to forget what I've just read here and take it with a grain of salt.

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04 Jul 2011, 5:16 pm

I'm going to live forever.

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04 Jul 2011, 7:44 pm

MotherKnowsBest wrote:

I'm going to live forever.

No you won't.

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04 Jul 2011, 7:47 pm

ruveyn wrote:

PM wrote:

You are aware that this is most likely nonsense, yes?

ruveyn

Take note of the word "theory". Its just a news article.

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04 Jul 2011, 8:00 pm

Saying that someone alive today is going to live to be 150 is a bold clam....especially when the world's oldest people are dying at a younger age. Then there's the question of WOULD you want to live to be 150, when the world you knew has completely changed and everyone you cared about is dead?

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04 Jul 2011, 9:50 pm

okaaaay something is inheritly creepy about this because you know only the rich will be able to afford routine stem cell transplants which create a possition where they become more god-like than they already seem to think they are.

but as far as this actually happening...I think it is wishful thinking by the clinically optimistic
I would not want to live to a 100, much less 1000.
Life is suffering, why prolong it.

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05 Jul 2011, 9:36 am

Chronos wrote:

PM wrote:

While I don't necessarily have a problem with extending the life span of those who fail to procreate, it's detrimental to the species to expand ones life span and pro-create.

not if we colonise other planets!

dayum why am I over 25, fml, I wanna live forever

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05 Jul 2011, 11:17 am

Ha!

<--- I'm already 150 years old.

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06 Jul 2011, 11:32 am

Chronos wrote:

While I don't necessarily have a problem with extending the life span of those who fail to procreate, it's detrimental to the species to expand ones life span and pro-create.

One could turn that argument around. Those living to 150 will presumably have many years in retirement in which they need to be supported by younger workers. One could argue that it's irresponsible to expand one's lifetime without also having children and teaching them to be productive members of society.

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06 Jul 2011, 12:03 pm

PM wrote:

http://old.news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110704/lf_nm_life/us_ageing_cure

also - this is old news

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06 Jul 2011, 3:20 pm

John_Browning wrote:

You'll feel differently when you're 149.

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06 Jul 2011, 4:11 pm

PM wrote:

Take note of the word "theory". Its just a news article.

A theory could either be a speculation or a well established system of hypotheses and well verified predictions, as in the -theory- of gravitation. Or as in quantum -theory-.

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