Methuselah Project! The cure to old age?

Live Science ^ | 11 Apr 2005 | Ker Than

[SouthernBoyupNorth]

Time may indeed be on your side. If you can just last another quarter century.

By then, people will start lives that could last 1,000 years or more. Our human genomes will be modified to include the genetic material of microorganisms that live in the soil, enabling us to break down the junk proteins that our cells amass over time and which they can’t digest on their own. People will have the option of looking and feeling the way they did at 20 for the rest of their lives, or opt for an older look if they get bored. Of course, everyone will be required to go in for age rejuvenation therapy once every decade or so, but that will be a small price to pay for near-immortality.

[SouthernBoyupNorth]

I thought this was interesting.... now if only they can do it before I have to collect a non-existant social security check....

[SMARTY]

So your body can remain in tact for indefinite periods of time. Now I know some people will NEVER have this problem but, what happens to your brain as you continue to learn and grow over time? Do you max out your brain's capacity at some point, like a computer ?

[concerned about politics]

Blueberries and longevity studies

Forget the bacteria. They'll probably taste nasty anyway. Eat blue food. Blue is good.

[Blood of Tyrants]

You'll need false teeth by the time your are 75 or so even if your body is in great shape.

[concerned about politics]

You'll need false teeth by the time your are 75 or so even if your body is in great shape.

Nah. By then, the tax payers will be doing that for you.

[blues_guitarist]

 
 
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" "I think it’s reasonable to suppose that one could oscillate between being biologically 20 and biologically 25 indefinitely."

-- Aubrey de Grey"

[jec41]

Make it 20 years, I'm 63 and in good shape and never had any problems. Most of my family on both sides seem to have longevity and live to be ninety or more and quite a few in the low 100's. I could use another 100 or so.

[Tijeras_Slim]

If I'd known I could keep my body forever, I would have picked a better one.

[Signalman]

Reminds me of the old joke, "Had I known I'd live this long, I would have taken better care of myself".

[Deaf Smith]

"option of looking and feeling the way they did at 20 for"

I would elect to look and feel 30.

It would be a pain in the butt to be carded everytime I went out to buy beer.

[Milhous]

Do you max out your brain's capacity at some point, like a computer ?

Perhaps brains fill with garbage until they effectively cease to function. My priest recently gave a sermon about exercising discretion when consuming entertainment lest engrams corrupt your reasoning.

[SMARTY]

He's right. Actually, a computer can be de programmed but the human brain??? When that stuff is in there, it's there to stay in one form or another. That's why it is so very important to keep ca-ca out of your kids' heads for as long as you can. The media is poison and if the kid chooses smut or other unwholesome diversions later in his/her life, that's one thing. But they HAVE to get off on the right foot, and mom and dad have to make sure of it!

[FYREDEUS]

Maybe it's not so much like 'maxing out' computer memory as 'fragmenting' it? Maybe we need a 'defrag' utility for H Sap's REALLY-personal computer eh? Or perhaps that's what REM sleep is for? ;-)

I would look forward to 'living' forever; interesting times ahead for H Sap and I would want to be around to SEE the Theory Of Everything, Nanotech Revolution, Interstellar Exodus, First Contact, Dyson Spheres, Flying Ringworlds etc etc etc...heck it would even be nice to 'live' long enough to see and KNOW whether it will be Final Entropy or the Big Crunch...whichever...where there's Life there's Hope...