Posted on 02/09/2017 11:35:49 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
When it comes to business projections, Silicon Valley is the home of the tall story. Unbridled ambitions, unfettered thinking and a belief in the boundless potential of technology produce a steady crop of outlandish expectations. Yet even by Silicon Valley standards the prediction that there are people alive today who will live for 1,000 years is extreme. It conjures less the bold pronouncement of a leading biotech pioneer than the ramblings of a mad professor....
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I think not. Genesis 6:3 “Then the LORD said, ‘My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; nevertheless his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.’”
Genesis 6:3 "Then the LORD said, 'My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; nevertheless his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.'"
I don’t believe in a world-wide canopy in Genesis, but yep, something significant changed in the environment. For one, radiation from the Vela Supernova about 40,000 years ago got to Earth.
The man’s delusional.
Even Methuselah only made it to 969 and he was the First Circuit Court Judge.
You could still be a democrat in the House or Senate. :-)
I told my mom that some day people would live to be 200. Her reply was “Who wants to be a little old lady for 130 years?”
Stolen from an old Jack Benny/George Burns/Red Skelton/Henny Youngman type joke.
The Bible might diverge from that opinion.
That’s a lot of Depends.
The Borg.
The Borg is a group mind....like progs, today.
I know people with esophagus transplants grown on sterile cartilage, people with joint replacements, people with grafted arteries. They are no where near to The Borg. I doubt the biomech arms, the implanted biomech hearts, the development of pancreas replacements or implanted artificial kidneys are or will be Borg, either.
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