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Who wants to live to be a thousand?
2004-12-04, 11:26 AM #1
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4003063.stm

I'm not sure if I do... I think I'll get lonely...
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2004-12-04, 11:28 AM #2
Of course, aging isn't really the biggest cause of death today; the estimated age for dying of "old age" is currently at a range of 90-130. Since very few people live that long, it is obvioust that something else is leading to their deaths. Cancer is the major one here.
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2004-12-04, 11:31 AM #3
It'd be cool if you could spend more years in your prime.
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2004-12-04, 11:50 AM #4
It's actually kind of intriguing, it's got to the point where you can expect to spend the majority of your life being "old", increasing the amount of time we all have in our prime could have a lot of beneficial consequences. However, overpopulation could become a real issue very quickly.
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2004-12-04, 12:10 PM #5
That to me sounds awesome. I'd love to live that long, but only provided my loved ones were guaranteed that long life as well. I mean, something around now. Like, men and women are equally almost guaranteed to die within a special time frame, like 50-100 years old. Not like men are guaranteed to live 50 years while women are guaranteed 200. I wouldn't want to go through 100 wives in my lifetime.

All we really have to do is cure major diseases....heart disease (i.e prevent heart attacks), cancer in all forms, and all the diseases that naturally occur in us as we get older that kill us.
2004-12-04, 12:10 PM #6
i've always wanted to be an immortal... vampire etc.

But I'd bet if we could live so long as to be 1000, such things as passion for life and love would die.
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2004-12-04, 12:17 PM #7
just look at the picture of the guy who says we could live to be 1000...

he looks like someone you'd expct to see living on a street corner saying "the end is near... spare some money? food?"
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2004-12-04, 12:19 PM #8
What about overpopulation and such? And so much for whatever left of Social Security. :(
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2004-12-04, 12:26 PM #9
What about cancer? Will this prevent cancer from getting everyone around age 70? Doubt it.
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2004-12-04, 12:34 PM #10
We better get ready to find another planet to inhabit then...
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2004-12-04, 12:39 PM #11
Quote:
Originally posted by DrkJedi82
just look at the picture of the guy who says we could live to be 1000...

he looks like someone you'd expct to see living on a street corner saying "the end is near... spare some money? food?"


In fairness, any self-respecting person in a reputable university looks like that.
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2004-12-04, 12:41 PM #12
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Originally posted by Sol
We better get ready to find another planet to inhabit then...
too the moon! and on to mars!
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2004-12-04, 12:55 PM #13
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Originally posted by DeTRiTiC-iQ
In fairness, any self-respecting person in a reputable university looks like that.


Um... no. Beard length is directly proportional to age/grayness, having a huge disgusting red beard at age 20 makes you look like a gross hobo, whereas a huge silver beard at age 60 is not disgusting, and makes you look like a wizard
2004-12-04, 12:58 PM #14
I thought we were supposed to have blown ourselves up within the next 1000 years :confused:
2004-12-04, 1:01 PM #15
Wont happen, we would eventually run out of food for everone, plus, could you imagine how may reletives you would have buy presents for? at least 500
nope.
2004-12-04, 1:05 PM #16
So, I might have the chance of a thousand year life and live on Mars?

I think my entire perspective on life just changed, especially if retirement age stays the same as it is.
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2004-12-04, 1:07 PM #17
Quote:
Originally posted by Boco
Wont happen, we would eventually run out of food for everone, plus, could you imagine how may reletives you would have buy presents for? at least 500


Well obviously they'd place survival of the fittest laws, and make anyone over 150 "fair game" for hunters.
2004-12-04, 1:18 PM #18
Perhaps we could make floating cities on the ocean?
2004-12-04, 1:29 PM #19
I would love to go to work at someplace like this:
[http://www.stguardian.to/starbase/nemesisdock01.jpg]

It should only take a few hundred more years.
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2004-12-04, 1:32 PM #20
Freelancer, I believe the reason we get diseased in old age is because we are frail and old. They're supposedly stopping that from happing, keeping you youthful. So no, that wouldn't happen.
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2004-12-04, 1:34 PM #21
Call me a skeptic, but I just highly doubt it. (Not what you said, but that it's possible)
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2004-12-04, 1:40 PM #22
I think cancer is like alzheimers for cells. They're happily reproducing, when all of a sudden they forget what they were doing, and then some liver cells start thinking "I think I was an arm," and the next thing you know, WHAM cancer.
2004-12-04, 1:58 PM #23
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Originally posted by Freelancer
Call me a skeptic, but I just highly doubt it. (Not what you said, but that it's possible)


It should be possible, just expensive and time consuming. The thing I don't like is the rich *******s of the world will live forever and the working class will die every 100 years or so. Who the **** wants to live that long anyway? It would become so terribly boring to work for 990 years.
omnia mea mecum porto
2004-12-04, 2:08 PM #24
It just wouldnt seem fair, that fact that you've been old for more that 9/10 of your life
nope.
2004-12-04, 2:38 PM #25
ha ha, I'm quite happy with the ammount of time i'm being given. 15 years is already enough to have had a good life. :)
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2004-12-04, 4:23 PM #26
Quote:
Originally posted by Mikus
I think cancer is like alzheimers for cells. They're happily reproducing, when all of a sudden they forget what they were doing, and then some liver cells start thinking "I think I was an arm," and the next thing you know, WHAM cancer.


Excellent diagnosis, Doctor.
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2004-12-04, 4:41 PM #27
I wouldn't mind living that long, provided I have a faithful woman to spend those years with.

Unfortunately, we can't live that long. At age 160, robots from the Sunset Squad come and take you away to the Near-Death Star.
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2004-12-04, 4:50 PM #28
Quote:
Originally posted by DogSRoOL
I wouldn't mind living that long, provided I have a faithful woman to spend those years with.

Unfortunately, we can't live that long. At age 160, robots from the Sunset Squad come and take you away to the Near-Death Star.


I thought it was 150?
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2004-12-04, 4:53 PM #29
Nope, definately 160, I'm CERTAIN. :)
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2004-12-04, 8:06 PM #30
Live to be 1000? What if you get shot? And if you do live to be 1000, will you drop dead on your 1000 birthday?
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2004-12-04, 8:47 PM #31
heh if you're still alive after your 1000th bday...you'll be burned at the stake!
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2004-12-04, 9:36 PM #32
hay, what about that episode of Deep Space 9 where this guy was convced that cells die because there bored. "work, devide, work, devide,". (or somthign to that effect. and he created "the cellular regeneration and entertainment chamber. so that cells could learn new tricks and would never be bored.
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2004-12-04, 9:40 PM #33
I love the idea, love it to death.

If such a thing becomes possible, be assured I'm soaking all of my resources into it.
2004-12-05, 12:52 PM #34
Quote:
Originally posted by Rob
I love the idea, love it to death.

If such a thing becomes possible, be assured I'm soaking all of my resources into it.


seconded
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2004-12-05, 12:54 PM #35
How can you look forward to working for that long? How will you keep yourself entertained?
omnia mea mecum porto
2004-12-05, 2:28 PM #36
Sex. And lots of it.
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2004-12-05, 3:12 PM #37
Quote:
Originally posted by DogSRoOL
Sex. And lots of it.


Easier said than done, what if the aging process doesn't cure the natrual impotence that comes later in life?
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2004-12-05, 3:14 PM #38
Viagra.
2004-12-05, 3:16 PM #39
Quote:
Originally posted by Rob
Viagra.


Pah. Probably your answer to everything.
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2004-12-05, 3:18 PM #40
Quote:
Originally posted by Gilgamesh85
Perhaps we could make floating cities on the ocean?


This is something I bet will actually happen. Most of the earth is water so it makes sense to capitalize on that.
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