'We will be able to live to 1,000'

BBC News Online ^ | Friday, December 3, 2004 | Dr, Aubrey de Grey

[Momaw Nadon]

"The last enemy that shall be conquered is death." 1 Corinthians 15:26

[Yo-Yo]

I'm waiting for the last sentence to this story: "Send us money and we can..."

[MaxMax]

I've always wanted 500+ children. Remembering their names
is another story.

[Mr. Jeeves]

This will destroy the social security system. People retired for 940 years!

Manadatory retirement age will be 650. ;)

[orionblamblam]

Probably, and that end would likely be suicide. Can the human brain even store that much memory? When you pass your 300th year, the new stuff might start pushing the old stuff out.

Weird effects liek that, coupled with the likelihood of *extreme* boredom, will probably lead a lot of people to just push the "cancel" button.

[apillar]

Imagine, being a poor 20 something trying to compete in a job market with people that have 20 different college degrees with 400 years of experience in a particular field.

Or worse, imagine you actually do get a job... "Welcome John, our company rewards up and coming acheivers like you, with hard work and perserverance you can easily be promoted from sales to managment in a mere 80 years...

Plus, going to family reunions and having to listen to your 900 year old great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather ramble on about how much better things were in his day, when 300 year old whiper-snapers like you showed some respect.

[kanawa]

...living in a computer-generated virtual reality

[FastCoyote]

Liespans of 1000 would require wars to eliminate excess population, or enforced sterilization. And you would have lesser humans (those with 'old' gene patterns) competing with new models.

[Don Simmons]

What a nut!

Finally, I've found something so utterly absurd that I'm speechless.

[funkywbr]

With Englands socialist health care system, who here really thinks these aging cures will be provided to the average person (beyond the INITIAL EXPERIMENTATION where the test subjects DIE of course)?

Does a Socialist country really think it can get away with this for the RICH only aging cure?

Can you imagine having to look at prince charles ugly mug for a 1000 years!~}

[Momaw Nadon]

Ping!

[Billthedrill]

I'm gonna have a really huge stack of National Geographics by that time. And the Mariners still won't have won a pennant.

[Cacique]

This pure bullsh*t. I remember when we were gonna get flying cars. Our cities would be electrified by nuclear power and/or fussion. We would get tv telephones etc. etc.. All this at the 1964 NY world's Fair. Made for great copy but it was still bullsh*t.

Rule of thumb, live everyday as if it's your last one.

[Centurion2000]

Can't wait. Looking forward to living forever.

[Scythian]

Can you imagine the palimony payments some guys will rack up, with a thousand years to philander?

Hilarious, and what about sentencing for Crimes?

[mysterio]

They ought to get a comment from Cartephilus and see what he thinks about living for thousands of years.

[stainlessbanner]

How old is the author?

[Reagan Man]

Humans living to be a 1000 years old? I don't think that will ever happen. I think Dr.de Grey has been reading too many comicbooks.

[MoralSense]

Can the human brain even store that much memory? When you pass your 300th year, the new stuff might start pushing the old stuff out.

Especially if the new stuff had the same name as the old stuff.