https://phys.org/news/2021-10-antibodies-cells-aging.html
Maybe in 20 years this will be mainstream.
Even if people still die at say 80 or 90 and this technique doesn't actually make them live longer, they may live their regular lifespan with better health.
Hell, maybe they will figure a way to allow us to live TWO centuries, Wouldn't THAT throw a monkey wrench into society, eh.
SS out the window till you are 160?
What other effects would a 200 year lifespan have on humans as a civilization?
Rich getting the best treatment, so THEY live to be FIVE hundred while the poor have to put up with a mere TWO hundred year lifespan?
@sonhouse saidYeah; I've been reading about immortality drugs since I was a kid.
https://phys.org/news/2021-10-antibodies-cells-aging.html
Maybe in 20 years this will be mainstream.
Even if people still die at say 80 or 90 and this technique doesn't actually make them live longer, they may live their regular lifespan with better health.
Hell, maybe they will figure a way to allow us to live TWO centuries, Wouldn't THAT throw a monkey wrench into ...[text shortened]... so THEY live to be FIVE hundred while the poor have to put up with a mere TWO hundred year lifespan?
I'll believe it when I see it.
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@sonhouse saidyou people really are stupid arent you?
https://phys.org/news/2021-10-antibodies-cells-aging.html
Maybe in 20 years this will be mainstream.
Even if people still die at say 80 or 90 and this technique doesn't actually make them live longer, they may live their regular lifespan with better health.
Hell, maybe they will figure a way to allow us to live TWO centuries, Wouldn't THAT throw a monkey wrench into ...[text shortened]... so THEY live to be FIVE hundred while the poor have to put up with a mere TWO hundred year lifespan?
Living longer could have negative effects.
I don't think the mind can handle a life that long.
Aging slower could benefit the body but the mind having to go longer could result in a bunch of old psychos.
So maybe we would have a cut off date?
Your body is younger and healthier but once you hit a certain age number the men in white coats come for you and take you to the execution chamber. 🤔
To give you a ridiculous example...
Every vampire in literature only wanted mortality and death....eventually.
@contenchess saidYou know vampires aren’t real though?
Living longer could have negative effects.
I don't think the mind can handle a life that long.
Aging slower could benefit the body but the mind having to go longer could result in a bunch of old psychos.
So maybe we would have a cut off date?
Your body is younger and healthier but once you hit a certain age number the men in white coats come for you and take you t ...[text shortened]... ridiculous example...
Every vampire in literature only wanted mortality and death....eventually.
Overpopulation would be the obvious downside we’re already choking the planet like Japanese Knot Weed
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I think if such a situation actually happened where the average lifespan is now in multiple centuries, it looks to me like they would have foreseen such a problem, increased population from 200 year olds still fertile so I imagine they will force sterility on those people, vasectomy? Hysterectomy?
@sonhouse saidYeah but by the time the first generation of super long livers was dying it would effectively double the population assuming that e ermine lived to a hundred before. It’s not so much about how many kids they have, it’s how much longer the planet will have to sustain them as fully functional consumers.
@kevcvs57
I think if such a situation actually happened where the average lifespan is now in multiple centuries, it looks to me like they would have foreseen such a problem, increased population from 200 year olds still fertile so I imagine they will force sterility on those people, vasectomy? Hysterectomy?
Anyway it’s still a good thing to research for when we are sensible enough to half or quarter our population.
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@sonhouse saidsounds like a good subject for a novel...
https://phys.org/news/2021-10-antibodies-cells-aging.html
Maybe in 20 years this will be mainstream.
Even if people still die at say 80 or 90 and this technique doesn't actually make them live longer, they may live their regular lifespan with better health.
Hell, maybe they will figure a way to allow us to live TWO centuries, Wouldn't THAT throw a monkey wrench into ...[text shortened]... so THEY live to be FIVE hundred while the poor have to put up with a mere TWO hundred year lifespan?
@contenchess saidAkasha seemed to enjoy her vampire existence
Living longer could have negative effects.
I don't think the mind can handle a life that long.
Aging slower could benefit the body but the mind having to go longer could result in a bunch of old psychos.
So maybe we would have a cut off date?
Your body is younger and healthier but once you hit a certain age number the men in white coats come for you and take you t ...[text shortened]... ridiculous example...
Every vampire in literature only wanted mortality and death....eventually.
@athousandyoung saidI like that movie.
Akasha seemed to enjoy her vampire existence
Unfortunate she died.