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Would YOU choose to live forever? Age-reversing pill Nasa wants to give to astronauts on Mars...
The London Daily Mail ^ | March 23, 2017 | Harry Pettit

Posted on 03/23/2017 4:36:51 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Scientists have made a discovery that could lead to a revolutionary drug that actually reverses ageing.

The drug could help damaged DNA to miraculously repair and even protect Nasa astronauts on Mars by protecting them from solar radiation.

A team of researchers developed the drug after discovering a key signalling process in DNA repair and cell ageing.

During trials on mice, the team found that the drug directly repaired DNA damage caused by radiation exposure or old age.

'The cells of the old mice were indistinguishable from the young mice after just one week of treatment,' said lead author Professor David Sinclair.

Human trials of the pill will begin within six months....

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Health/Medicine; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: ageing; dna; longevity; repairdna; reverseaging; science; space
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To: Jonty30
I would choose to live forever.

That would be nice but would you be willing to go back to work since it's unlikely your savings and Social Security would be able to sustain you for the rest of ...eternity.

21 posted on 03/23/2017 4:52:50 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (My once 6 pack abs are now a keg......)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Would YOU choose to live forever?

For those on pensions, heck yeah! But forever would be cut short when the government pension fund goes broke. They'd pass a law against giving the pill to pensioners.

22 posted on 03/23/2017 4:53:52 PM PDT by roadcat
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
FULL TITLE: Would YOU choose to live forever?

Of course I would. There's a lot I still want to do that I will never have time to get done. Maybe not forever - I'm sure I'd get tired of it at some point, but not for a few hundred years.

We're not even at the beginning of advances that will allow human being to live in good health far longer than they do now. Unfortunately, those advances aren't likely to arrive in time to benefit anyone alive today, regardless of what Ray Kurzweil says.
23 posted on 03/23/2017 4:54:58 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

People will live forever....for about five months, and then they will seek death and desire to die, but they will not find death.


24 posted on 03/23/2017 4:54:59 PM PDT by WhatNot (The Gospel doesn't promise the American dream, it promises Eternal life in the Kingdom of God.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I have chosen to live forever.

You can make that choice, too.

Here is the way. Seriously.

http://october-5-2017.com/#welcome


25 posted on 03/23/2017 4:57:19 PM PDT by TruthInThoughtWordAndDeed (Yahuah Yahusha)
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To: Pollster1

“Your wife lives forever too but turns into Hillary?”

Hit the nail on the head ... almost - your wife lives forever, but you turn into Hillary ...


26 posted on 03/23/2017 4:57:39 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Live forever, probably not.

Live a little better with fewer aches and pains?

Sounds good.

27 posted on 03/23/2017 4:59:09 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Not a Romantic, not a hero worshiper and stop trying to tug my heartstrings. It tickles! (pink bow))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

My understanding is that cell division is programmed in to only happen so many times and when the last batch wears out you die. SO perhaps we are not looking at an eternal life pill, but an lifelong youth pill.


28 posted on 03/23/2017 4:59:40 PM PDT by arthurus
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I want to volunteer.


29 posted on 03/23/2017 5:01:21 PM PDT by wastedyears (Prophecy of sky Gods, the sun and moon)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I would choose to take the pill only until I was healthy and then I would die a natural death and be with my Lord.


30 posted on 03/23/2017 5:02:18 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Conservatives love America for what it is. Liberals hate America for the same reason.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

FOREVER?

Hell no.

Who wants to be around for the heat-death of the universe????

When black holes are winking out in the Hawkings events????

Floating in space forever, with no light or stars or planets any more?


31 posted on 03/23/2017 5:02:53 PM PDT by Lazamataz (The "news" networks and papers are bitter, dangerous enemies of the American people.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Absolutely not! Going once around the (Un) Merry-Go-Round financially “treading water” will be quite enough, thank you.
I would like to reverse certain conditions though, such as arthritis.


32 posted on 03/23/2017 5:03:54 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: CaptainK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Jtpf8N5IDE

Amazing song... Who Wants To Live Forever?


33 posted on 03/23/2017 5:04:40 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: blackdog

rofl!!

Is everyone else’s life that much better than mine that they want to live HERE forever?

I’m 48 and though i enjoy things, my heart is heavy from different events in life already.

Why would I want to carry that for 200 years or so?

I’ve been close to death. In ICU with a head injury.

It’s not scary at all. you are really at peace and feel like it’s so natural.

My aunts were discussing funeral homes.

Then I lived :)


34 posted on 03/23/2017 5:05:07 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yes, I choose to live forever. Not in this frail mortal body, but in my new body like that of the risen Christ. No pill can do that.


35 posted on 03/23/2017 5:06:06 PM PDT by beethovenfan (I always try to maximize my carbon footprint.)
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To: Lazamataz

Forever, no.

Long enough to see the Left crushed, yes...So my Country and my grandchildren would be safe, and I’d know it.

That would be long enough for me.


36 posted on 03/23/2017 5:06:32 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: Reverend Wright

Yup!


37 posted on 03/23/2017 5:06:37 PM PDT by piytar (http://www.truthrevolt.org/videos/bill-whittle-number-one-bullet)
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To: NFHale

I am with you.


38 posted on 03/23/2017 5:09:58 PM PDT by Bigg Red (The LORD of hosts is with us; our stronghold is the God of Jacob. Ps 46:12)
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To: Bigg Red

Stopping them is priority one... and always should be.


39 posted on 03/23/2017 5:11:27 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: Lazamataz
Who wants to be around for the heat-death of the universe????

Wasn't that the plot in Flashforward? The book, not the TV series.

40 posted on 03/23/2017 5:13:13 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Not a Romantic, not a hero worshiper and stop trying to tug my heartstrings. It tickles! (pink bow))
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