Posted on 01/05/2023 5:43:48 PM PST by algore
Experts are airing concerns that deep-pocketed billionaires will soon be able to use their vast wealth to increase their lifespans - allowing them additional time to add to their billions.
The scary hypothesis - which seems like something out of a science fiction novel - has been laid by an increasing amount of scientists in recent years, amid recent strides in anti-aging science.
Long just a pipe dream, the concept of a modern-day Methuselah - the biblical grandfather of Noah who lived to 969 - is becoming more and more likely.
That said, the concept of a driven mogul like Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates being blessed with an ever-lasting lifespan is not so appealing to some.
Included in that camp is bioethicist Christopher Wareham, who believes such advances could 'exacerbate all the kinds of existing inequalities that we have' already.
Wareharm is not alone in his concerns - as figures such as Bezos, 58, Israeli entrepreneur Yuri Milner, and Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin Funnel money into ventures meant to make deaths before 100 a thing of the past.
Other, older funders include Gates, 67, Richard Branson, 67, and Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, 80, who have all provided prominent financial backup to companies investigating how to lengthen lives in recent years.
Progress, however, has been somewhat slow until - that is, until relatively recently, where breakthroughs in understanding what causes the aging process, such as damage to our DNA and proteins that misbehave because of outside alterations, have been gleaned by scientists in their quest for the proverbial fountain of youth.
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‘Time Enough for Love’, Robert Heinlein
Isn’t George Soros already getting transfusions of baby blood?
I have been convinced for some time that the soros’s and the pelosi’s and their ilk take a morning IVs made of baby juice made from 1000 aborted babies each day and will thus live forever
Reminds me of the movie “Death Becomes Her”.
Assuming this is true, they would be “immortal” only in terms of avoiding death by natural causes.
Why stick around this world any longer than necessary?
Yeah, they’d be ‘immortal’ until they died. Statistically something, natural or just bad luck, would catch up with them eventually.
“And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.”
H. Clinton, Pelosi, Soros and others mentioned in this post are probably getting some type of youth enhancers.
Remember H. Clinton looking like death warmed over after she was in the NYC parade, passed out and was tossed into her van like a sack of potatoes. About an hour later, she is walking on the sidewalks showing zero problems.
The private medical staffs of these elites have been pushing abortions for decades and harvesting critical body parts from abortion victims. We as citizens are never told what is done with these aborted baby parts.
Many of the bad ones meet at a certain place, at a certain time, every year.
It would be a shame if something...well...you know, ...a meteorite or something...just sayin’.
A shame...just a darn shame.
Good paperback cover art, IIRC.
“‘Time Enough for Love’, Robert Heinlein”
Lazarus Long was an amazing character. And Heinlein was a genius for writing him.
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More like rise of the Morlocks.
Silly. Rich people die at the same rate poor people do. And they end up with the same net worth.
Yep, those Tessier-Ashpools were a bit odd.
Isn’t it nice that the globalists have seized upon the most dystopian and dysfunctional aspects of speculative fiction as their models?
Thirty or so extra years isn’t so long. The difficulty for many is continuing to act and look like a young person. A very few people have it. Most don’t.
They probably need to take into account that there is more than one way to shuffle off this mortal coil.
Mao was resentful he had to die. He literally owned China and everyone in it.
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