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Post number 3460

tiaka — Fri, 29 Sep 2000 08:55:02 -0800

130 Years old! See! God may not exist, but technology will outpace religion and THEN I will live FOREVER!

By: tiaka

tiaka — Fri, 29 Sep 2000 08:59:14 -0800

I meant be GOD, or no, I will live forever!

By: solistrato

solistrato — Fri, 29 Sep 2000 09:06:43 -0800

Ease down, Thundercloud. *)

By: holloway

holloway — Fri, 29 Sep 2000 09:07:35 -0800

> The age to which human beings can live is increasing > by more than a year every decade and shows no signs > of reaching any biological limit, American scientists > have discovered. Eh wot? So extrapolate to year 3000 and we can expect to live to the ripe old age of 8000? Um, no (I think). "Bobo..."

By: PWA_BadBoy

PWA_BadBoy — Fri, 29 Sep 2000 09:33:15 -0800

Other way around holloway... the ate to which human beings can live is increasing by more than a year every decade not "by a decade every year"

By: Mr. skullhead

Mr. skullhead — Fri, 29 Sep 2000 10:15:20 -0800

Not exactly. Rich folks will be able to afford all of these nifty life extending breakthroughs. The rest of us working class stiffs won't. Of course, nobody factors in all of the die-offs sure to be caused by war, overpopulation, resource limitations and environmental degradation.

By: Mick

Mick — Fri, 29 Sep 2000 10:58:23 -0800

Thank you for reminding us that everything is about class warfare.

By: cowboy

cowboy — Fri, 29 Sep 2000 12:21:35 -0800

So much for early retirement (not that I'm anywhere close to it). Does this mean the retirement age is going to be raised? I'd just hate to be this damn job until I was 80 or so...

By: daveadams

daveadams — Fri, 29 Sep 2000 13:25:38 -0800

I'd think only the rich would want to live forever, because you'd certainly get tired of working for a living after 80 or 90 years and want to retire. Who's going to have the money to live on till they're 8000?

By: tiaka

tiaka — Fri, 29 Sep 2000 14:47:35 -0800

Actually there was a show on this. First Person by Erroll Morris had the guy that started kryo-freezing people, he talked about the future, and the possibility of eternal life. I mean, if you think about eternal life, that seems a lot, but, you think about all that man can explore, including space, that's not all that much. But then if you really want to get into these things, robots will replace us. Because when you try to define human, it's a number of things, all those things robots can be. So, we as humans might just be this vehicle that creates the robots, true owners of the world?

By: starduck

starduck — Fri, 29 Sep 2000 15:44:06 -0800

and don't forget about the drug that makes you live 44% longer that's being tested next year!

By: holgate

holgate — Fri, 29 Sep 2000 15:52:31 -0800

Oh good, I so want to extend my senile decrepitude. Where do I sign up?

By: holloway

holloway — Fri, 29 Sep 2000 17:43:49 -0800

"bobo..."

By: Catch

Catch — Fri, 29 Sep 2000 20:16:13 -0800

Yeah, that bear's gonna be in bad shape by then :) Think of the population problems when people aren't dying. I bet the childbearing age will rise too. My grandkids will be babysitting their great-uncles. Or something. Maybe not.

By: tj

tj — Sat, 30 Sep 2000 22:25:01 -0800

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