Some interesting links passed my way by former co-worker.
http://www.imminst.org/forum/index.php?act=ST&f=173&t=5270&s=
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3847943059984264388&q=aubrey+de+grey
http://mprize.org/
Hey, at least Aubrey de Grey kinda looks like Jesus might have. What say you? Crackpots or visionaries?
In my opinion, all animals, including humans, have the survival instinct. And throughout history people have been searching for 'the fountain of youth'. People want to live forever.... BUT!! for the unpleasantness of getting old and weak and failure of the organs. Therefore people would generally say they would like to live up to 70, 80 or 100 etc, PROVIDED that they remain HEALTHY.
There is no point of living to be 100 if you are a vegetable hooked to a life-supporting machine and requiring people to look after you like a baby. Adam lived up to 930 yrs. And he was still making babies at 130! Imagine if you can live that long.... in the end it must be boring. You'd probably have done everything there is to do, experienced all there is to experience. And the world would probably become so damn crowded because people just refuse to die!
Originally posted by ckoh1965Grumpy people seem to live longest. 🙁
In my opinion, all animals, including humans, have the survival instinct. And throughout history people have been searching for 'the fountain of youth'. People want to live forever.... BUT!! for the unpleasantness of getting old and weak and failure of the organs. Therefore people would generally say they would like to live up to 70, 80 or 100 etc, PROVIDED ...[text shortened]... ience. And the world would probably become so damn crowded because people just refuse to die!
live forever but the others die?
live forever and the others live forever but then osama and hitler and stalin live forever?(the last two died already but bear with me)
if you live forever boredom kicks in and you end up killing yourself.
i cannot think of a reason why living forever might be a good thing but that doesn't mean i wouldn't take the chance of being eternaly bored in order to cheat death.
Originally posted by David C1000 years is way too much for me.
de Grey and fellow researchers are investigating whether aging can be treated like a disease. Did you watch the video on Google? He suggests that the first person to live to 1000 may be 60 years old today.
Originally posted by David CMy friend Duncan has devoted his life to that research. Here are a couple of his publications:
de Grey and fellow researchers are investigating whether aging can be treated like a disease. Did you watch the video on Google? He suggests that the first person to live to 1000 may be 60 years old today.
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=21014&tools=bot
http://www.jbc.org/cgi/reprint/M200229200v1.pdf#search=%22%22Duncan%20C.%20MacLaren%22%20aging%22