A fun (and also sobering) read.
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21-40, 41 next last
To: RadioAstronomer
To: snarks_when_bored
Do You Want to Live Forever? I plan on it.
So far, so good.
3 posted on
01/19/2005 6:06:57 PM PST by
Graybeard58
(Remember and pray for Spec.4 Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
To: snarks_when_bored
4 posted on
01/19/2005 6:07:10 PM PST by
spetznaz
(Nuclear tipped ICBMs: The Ultimate Phallic Symbol.)
To: snarks_when_bored
Do You Want to Live Forever?Or die trying!
6 posted on
01/19/2005 6:10:26 PM PST by
Coyoteman
To: snarks_when_bored
How long would you have to live before your dialect becomes noticeably different than current speech? 200 years? How about mutually unintellible? 1000 years?
Of course if just about everyone in your cohort also lived to a 1000, then the pattern wouldn't change at all.
7 posted on
01/19/2005 6:14:44 PM PST by
pierrem15
To: snarks_when_bored
May you live to be 120 is still an old Jewish blessing! Hope we all get to live that long.
8 posted on
01/19/2005 6:16:12 PM PST by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: snarks_when_bored
9 posted on
01/19/2005 6:18:36 PM PST by
since1868
To: snarks_when_bored
Do You Want to Live Forever? No. Especially if it will make me have excessive facial hair and write articles that can't be absorbed in one sitting.
10 posted on
01/19/2005 6:20:13 PM PST by
PistolPaknMama
(Will work for cool tag line.)
To: snarks_when_bored
Do You Want to Live Forever?
Depends. Would I have to wear a beard like that guy in the picture?
To: snarks_when_bored
"3. Mutations in chromosomes. The most damaging consequence of cell mutation is the development of cancer. The immortality of cancer cells is related to the behavior of the telomere, the caplike structure found on the end of every chromosome, which decreases in length each time the cell divides and therefore seems to be involved with the cells mortality. If we could eliminate the gene that makes telomerasethe enzyme that maintains and lengthens telomeresthe cancer cell would die. De Greys solution for this problem is to replace a persons stem cells every 10 or so years with ones engineered not to carry that gene." Why are babies born young? If a 40-year-old couple have a child, why is it not born 40 years old? Because--aside from cancer cells--the only body cells which express telomerase are sperm and ova. Be careful. 40-year-old babies would not be a good idea.
Now. If one could somehow "switch ON" the telomerase in all of the bodies' cells WITHOUT making them cancerous, would they not "rejuvenate"?
So why does he want to turn it off?
--Boris
12 posted on
01/19/2005 6:22:08 PM PST by
boris
(The deadliest weapon of mass destruction in history is a Leftist with a word processor)
To: snarks_when_bored
Its simple ...keep breathing
13 posted on
01/19/2005 6:24:31 PM PST by
woofie
(Proudly posting inane comments since 1998)
To: snarks_when_bored
That first graph is the best demonstration I have ever seen of the difference between a median and and average - specifically, that it's easy to throw off an average.
To: snarks_when_bored
Ya can't cheat death.
You're date with death is not something you will be late for or postpone. You can be in the best of health and get into a fatal car accident. Youcan be in poor health and linger.
If you want eternal life, seek Christ.
16 posted on
01/19/2005 6:28:08 PM PST by
nmh
(Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
To: snarks_when_bored
I already know I'm immortal. In the end there can be only one...
17 posted on
01/19/2005 6:28:58 PM PST by
WestVirginiaRebel
("Senator, we can have this discussion in any way that you would like.")
To: snarks_when_bored
Bump
To read later
Do You Want to Live Forever?
My short answer to that question.......
Not Just No but Hell No!
19 posted on
01/19/2005 6:32:16 PM PST by
Fiddlstix
(This Tagline for sale. (Presented by TagLines R US))
To: snarks_when_bored
Every human ever born is going to live forever...
The only question is.....where
imo
20 posted on
01/19/2005 6:32:39 PM PST by
joesnuffy
(Moderate Islam Is For Dilettantes)
To: snarks_when_bored
I just love these short and to the point articles.
22 posted on
01/19/2005 6:34:17 PM PST by
diamond6
(Everyone who is for abortion has already been born. Ronald Reagan)
To: snarks_when_bored
Hell, you would have to live forever to read this article in its entirety, and beyond that to understand it.
24 posted on
01/19/2005 6:35:16 PM PST by
evangmlw
To: snarks_when_bored
I had this perverse fantasy after reading this article of running up to this guy at a convention, chopping off that ridiculous beard and seeing what everyone's reaction was.
25 posted on
01/19/2005 6:36:14 PM PST by
The Grammarian
("Preaching is in the shadows. The world does not believe in it." --W.E. Sangster)
To: snarks_when_bored
If we could stop aging, at what point would we stop it? What about babies? Do we let them grow up and them stop them from aging? If so, what age? 25? 30? 40? When I turned 30 years old, I figured it was all downhill from there so at that point, I would have stopped my aging process. But now that I'm 42, I like the way I am better than the way I was when I was 30. So I would prefer to stop the clock now. But I never would have had that opportunity if I had already stopped the clock at 30 because I would never come to know how good 42 would feel. So I'd have been stuck being the immature jerk I was at 30 for all eternity. But if I stopped the clock now, how do I know that I wouldn't feel even better about myself at 50...or even 60?
What about people who are already elderly? Do they stop the aging process even though they might already be in their 80s and in poor health? Imagine having to wear Depends and not being able to climb a flight of stairs for all eternity?
So many questions. So little answers.
27 posted on
01/19/2005 6:36:50 PM PST by
SamAdams76
(iPod Shuffle Is A Gateway Drug)
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21-40, 41 next last
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson