The downside is that your mental function will be roughly equivalent to a mollusk for 880 of those years.
I would not be surprised if humans are seriously reaching for immortality after another thousand years of high level medical research.
The problem is pretty basic - what is the molecular biology of cell development and cell aging, and how do we control it?
After we have a molecular map, maybe it will take another two or three thousand years to refine the technology and bring down the costs.
But five thousand years from now, I think immortality will be the new normal.
And we all will not be able to draw Socialist Insecurity payments until age 990 or face confiscatory penalties.
According to the bible, this was a pretty standard lifetime possibility before the flood. Once the waters above stopped protecting us from solar radiation, our lifespan changed.
The downside is that you’ll see more snowflakes protesting....and more liberals would be protesting for ‘more rights for over the 500 years set’, like free teeth..
What difference does it make? According to the global warming "experts" we'll all be under water in 10 years anyway.
My retirement benefits won’t last that long...
One of the biggest problems with living an antediluvian lifespan is that you have all that time to have accidents that will result in physical maiming. I might live to be 900 but I will lose an arm, an eye, etc. There is just so many awful things that can happen if you live like you’re twenty for centuries. Lot’s of us here are surprised that we somehow lived thru our twenties, imagine having 800 years of that. I’m sorry, it’s Friday and here I am being Professor Buzzkill.
Is this the same scientist who says we won’t be here in 1000 years because of “global warming”?
God has decreed otherwise. This corner of the universe has enough cosmic rays (thanks to a few supernovas that popped in the neighborhood) to limit the lifetime of mankind.
The man’s delusional.
Even Methuselah only made it to 969 and he was the First Circuit Court Judge.
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.
That’s a lot of Depends.