Yahoo! News - Hang in There: The 25-Year Wait for Immortality
Time may indeed be on your side. If you can just last another quarter century.
By then, people will start lives that could last 1,000 years or more.
I don't know about this: live for a thousand years? Just assuming that the world's population replaces itself each generation, and taking an average lifespan of 70 - somebody do the math, here. How fast would the Earth's population grow?
Plus, whaddaya wanna bet suicide would become the leading killer?
But then, given this quote by the leading scientist being interviewed, I'm not sure how seriously to take this:
The first part of the project is to get really impressive results in mice. The reason that's important is because mice are sufficiently furry and people can identify with them. If we get really impressive results in mice, then people will believe that it's possible to do it in humans, whereas if you double the lifespan of a fruit fly, people aren't going to be terribly interested.
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I saw the Alan Alda on PBS where they'd done that with fruit flies already.
Did I miss that in the article?
A global population of Methuselahs?
Count me out for one.
I can just hear it now -
"Remember George Bush?..." Substitute Pope John Paul II if you wish.
"We didn't have weather like this when I was..."
"My grandpappy died of 'old age'. Can you imagine that?"
Nope. Sorry. My alloted time is enough.
Besides which, how would you decide it was time the kids left home?
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