We are very close to living for 100's years now

[stewie]

if we are going to live to be 100, we should get larger private message mailboxes ...and fix the chatroom. LOL

:yo:

 

[JuniperPark]

If you think "overpopulation is a myth created by the media", I suspect you've never been to an overpopulated country, or seen a slum. Oh, and I assume you've figured out a way to make more oxygen and clean water, so why you fire up that engine NOW and help the 30% of the world who are dying from lack of clean water and diseases spread by overpopulation?? Or do you just like to see people suffering to death?

 

[Sonny Banks]

If we living to die why the death living in us?

if we are going to live to be 100, we should get larger private message mailboxes ...and fix the chatroom. LOL

:yo:

:lol::lol::lol:

 

[HarveyJ]

I don't think over population is going to be a problem. If this tech gets through, government will limit population expansion in a way similar to China's "one child policy". Really they should be doing that now, but it's amazing how up in arms people get when you tell them they should stop breeding... Even if they just complained about "welfare mothers" squeezing out another for the pay.

In any case, these methods are for the forseeable future highly unlikely to be biologic in nature. More than likely they will be mechanical or digital devices.
If that sounds science fiction to you, then where have you been for the lat 30 years of medical advancement? We have electronic hearts, mechanical livers, digital ears. There have been cameras that serve as functional replacements for eyes for almost a decade, and they have now gotten to the point where a guy is intending on adding storage to his and using those artificial eyes to make films.
The only thing we haven't been able to replace artificially at this point is the brain, and it won't be much longer before we do that either. A sufficiently detailed simulacrum program of a person's personality is likely to be indistinguishable from the real thing.... Figure out a way to record their thought patterns and memories, and you've basically recreated them.

bd77: We live in a society, not an economy... unless you want me to start calling you "Margaret". Sure, the economies of places like India and China are going gangbusters, but millions more people are living in even worse conditions than 20 years ago.
Also, if overpopulation is such a myth, how come major US cities are out of clean drinking water and resorting to desalinization?

 

[ezimedia]

HI

Bad luck for people that have life in jail...

But great for space exploration....to spread the human seed on to other planets..

I would be happy to live to 200 I guess..

Tom

 

[tas38]

We will likely have resource's from other planets before to long, the ground floor is being layed already for this stuff. Once they can use antimatter as fuel, and longer life's that will be fairly easy for us then.

 

[Creature]

In order for this to happen there must be a a treatment for cancer first. If you live long enough, you will get cancer. It's not a matter of probability. It's a fact. If someone lives long enough then somewhenre in his body cancer will evolve. Some get cancer young, some old, and some never get it because they die before they get it.

According to Edward Griffin, if you take enough vitamin B17 in your diet (found mostly in apple seeds and apricot seeds), then he says you might never get cancer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJ_4YkekV9A

Apparently there are already over 300 natural cancer treatments, ref http://www.beating-cancer-gently.com - They say the politics or cancer is far more complicated than the science.

So maybe that will help us to live forever

 

[JuniperPark]

Sigh... another snake oil salesman on late night TV with another "cancer cure". Some things never change.

Human bodies are like cars, even if you keep the thing running a long time, it's not worth it after a while because EACH PART has a limited lifespan as well. If you beat cancer, Alzheimers will get you. If you beat that, kidney failure. If you beat that, your weakened immune system allows a common cold to kill you. And so on and so on. Not to mention you will be blind, unable to walk or hear after a while, so it's just not worth it.

 

[Bionic]

Human bodies are like cars, even if you keep the thing running a long time, it's not worth it after a while because EACH PART has a limited lifespan as well.

body organs replace their cells, every 8 years every cell in your body is
new, you are completely replaced with new material, except your
skeleton. Nearly every cell contains DNA which contains the instructions
to manufacture each organ. There is potential for perpetual maintenance,
why do we age, it's not because we are wearing out like car parts, it's
a biological process, we can probably turn it off. :uhoh:

 

[JuniperPark]

body organs replace their cells, every 8 years every cell in your body is
new, you are completely replaced with new material, except your
skeleton. Nearly every cell contains DNA which contains the instructions
to manufacture each organ. There is potential for perpetual maintenance,
why do we age, it's not because we are wearing out like car parts, it's
a biological process, we can probably turn it off. :uhoh:

Not true.

If it were, there would be no people waiting for kidney or heart or eye transplants, and old people would be as athletic and mentally sharp as young people. They're not.

 

[Bionic]

So your argument is, we can't stop aging because we all age?

 

[Focus]

body organs replace their cells, every 8 years every cell in your body is
new, you are completely replaced with new material, except your
skeleton. Nearly every cell contains DNA which contains the instructions
to manufacture each organ. There is potential for perpetual maintenance,
why do we age, it's not because we are wearing out like car parts, it's
a biological process, we can probably turn it off. :uhoh:

Not most brain cells bro....degenerative diseases of the brain are very hard to escape. I do see your point though, and it's a good one. k:

I'm living to be 420! :smokin:

 

[Bionic]

Very astute Focus! maybe the chemicals in the cells are replaced over time.
there are problems, like replacing neurons and mutations in DNA as you get older,
but lengthening our lifespan by a factor of 4.2 sounds feasable!

 

[tas38]

But they can slow down the aging gene, and we will not only live longer, but also live much healthier as all of the aging of our body's is slow down.

They will soon creak the code of life it's self, they have started building the next generation of super computers. And not so far away it will be able to crunch the data, to where they will be able to do just that. Like right now they can test all babies before they are born, for the alzheimers gene and take it out so they never get it.

To test all babies would be $200 each, but they are not doing it because the mother would know she was getting it. There is a cancer gene as well, so most sickness can be fixed and they can slow down all aging of the whole body. But if the weakest link ( our brains ), gets damaged to bad we would then die. They can fix some things, but at some point we would die and a clone would be left behind as us.

But we must keep in mind, we can protect our brains from most things. But at some point they will still give out, and we will die when it does. A brain transplant has been done with monkey's already, and it did work but only the transplanted monkey's brain was alive.

If we can live long enough they could, change the human genes to such a degree, that even our brains can fix them self's endlessly. We may well get to see the first new carbon based computer life form, once they can make new life forms. Then humans enter a all new ball game, we will then take over our own human evolution.

 

[Focus]

One word : Resveratrol!

 

[Creature]

tas, I don't get the whole gene thing and not sure that I believe any of it. Why would a human evolve ready programmed to give itself alzheimers or cancer? Maybe regenerative medicine will help with long life, newts seem to have a clever trick, growing new limbs and repairing a damaged heart. A bit like auto renewals at Godaddy.......
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,307739,00.html
http://www.animalpicturesarchive.com/view.php?tid=2&did=25466
http://www.shvoong.com/medicine-and-health/1703512-newt-protein-offer-clues-human/

One word : Resveratrol!

agreed, got it

 

[H2FC]

"One of the most intriguing facts in the Bible is the immense life spans of the patriarchs before and just after the flood. Adam lived 930 years, Methuselah the longest lived of the patriarchs lived 969 years. Noah lived 950 years. Many scoffers state that these extended life spans are nothing more than myths and legends. They state that the figures given for the various ages of the patriarchs are fabricated.

There are many factors that could account for the lowering of the life spans after the flood. The Bible states that the flood would not only destroy the land dwelling air breathing animals but it would also destroy the earth. (Genesis 6:13; 9:11)

After the flood the earth was completely different than the earth before. There were widespread global differences. These would include changes in the climate, composition of the atmosphere, hydrologic cycle, geologic features, cosmic radiation reaching the earth, ozone concentration, ultra violet light, background radiation, genetics, diet, and a host of other subtle and/or profound chemical and physiological changes. These changes caused a rapid decline of the longevity of post flood humanity".

The preceding is an excerpt from http://www.biblestudy.org/basicart/why-did-man-live-longer-before-flood-of-noah-than-after-it.html