Life Expectancy: 800?
Why would you want to love to be 800?
I found an article saying that researchers of some yeast by ten-fold and that the method used could be applied to humans with no ill side effects.
What kind of implications could this have? They are nightmarish to me and I hope that I never live to see them. Imagine people accruing and hording wealth for 800 years. Imagine people scrimping along below the poverty line for 800 years. Until the state of human affairs improves dramatically, live another 720 years is not in our best interest I don't think.
At the rate of technological advances and the way we just blow through entire eras, I don't know if most people could stand living that long. I imagine severe depression would set in and suicides would increase exponentially.
With the rate that people kill themselves, I somewhat doubt many people would get to 800 anyway. Think of how many people do not die of natural causes...
In the end I'm a bit torn. The optimist in me would love to see a paradigm shift and have 800 pleasurable years be possible, but I'd have a lot to get over to get there. I'd love to see space, and travel, and do all of that sort of thing. Imagine trying to find an apartment, or driving in rush-hour in 800 years though.
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Alan
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Among other things, this made me wonder what kind of effect it would have on our aging process. Do we still look like kids until we hit 100, then look like teens for another 100 years? Do we somehow magically stay at an ideal 20-something for most of our lives? Do we age normally and look like we are really really really really old as we get older?
I agree that with the current state of affairs in the world, extending a person's natural life span simply increases the likelihood that you will die by some other cause.