1 posted on
07/19/2003 4:56:57 PM PDT by
AntiGuv
To: PatrickHenry
Ping!
2 posted on
07/19/2003 4:57:23 PM PDT by
AntiGuv
(™)
To: AntiGuv
"like trying to get a space shuttle to Pluto." You know, that's technically possible . . . .
3 posted on
07/19/2003 4:59:27 PM PDT by
JoeSchem
(Okay, now it works: Knight's Quest, at http://www.geocities.com/engineerzero)
To: AntiGuv
Social Security will REALLY be messed up then.
4 posted on
07/19/2003 5:10:09 PM PDT by
Tony in Hawaii
(Actually Tarzana CA)
To: AntiGuv
And you thought Social Security was in trouble NOW....
LQ
To: AntiGuv
Evolution didn't really need to have long lifetimes, merely long enough to pop out a 2nd generation and be around long enough to parent it to independence. So it never really cared if there were slowly cummulative problems in the genetic profile.
7 posted on
07/19/2003 5:12:24 PM PDT by
jlogajan
To: AntiGuv
In the past 100 years, the lifespan has increased about 30 years. However, if you visit your local nursing home, the last 10+ aren't pretty.
8 posted on
07/19/2003 5:13:51 PM PDT by
aimhigh
To: AntiGuv
For what it's worth ... I think many people (including myself) know when they reach a certain age bracket, that's the age they would prefer to remain ,if they could, indefinitely. That age for me was between 28 & 33. For others it might be older, others younger. My point is, if you look like your 120, and you are, what's the point?
9 posted on
07/19/2003 5:24:27 PM PDT by
BluH2o
To: AntiGuv
Then the LORD said, "My spirit will not remain in man forever, for he is mortal; his days will be a hundred and twenty years."
Gen. 6:3
10 posted on
07/19/2003 5:26:24 PM PDT by
w_over_w
To: AntiGuv
I'd be happy to live to 180 if they can arrange for me to never look a day over 30!
To: AntiGuv
The other day I felt like I was 180 years old. Does that count?
13 posted on
07/19/2003 5:30:32 PM PDT by
hauerf
To: AntiGuv
The ultimate power is to control when you die. Or at least that's what some say.
14 posted on
07/19/2003 5:38:18 PM PDT by
Bogey78O
(I'll vote Conservative till I die....Democrat soon after)
To: AntiGuv
Experts Debate Limit of Aging
"I think we are knocking at the door of immortality," said Michael Zey, a Montclair State University business professor and the author of two books on the future.
Uh ... he is not an expert on the limits of aging. He sounds like someone who wants to sell books.
To: AntiGuv
18 posted on
07/19/2003 6:00:40 PM PDT by
sourcery
(The Evil Party thinks their opponents are stupid. The Stupid Party thinks their opponents are evil.)
To: AntiGuv
20 posted on
07/19/2003 6:04:47 PM PDT by
sourcery
(The Evil Party thinks their opponents are stupid. The Stupid Party thinks their opponents are evil.)
To: AntiGuv
From the article:
"It remains to be seen if you pass the threshold of say 120, you know; could you be healthy enough to have good quality of life?" said Leonard Poon, director of the University of Georgia Gerontology Center. Man, that's a tough name to have to live with.
22 posted on
07/19/2003 6:39:40 PM PDT by
PatrickHenry
(When rationality is outlawed, only outlaws will be rational.)
To: AntiGuv
bump
To: AntiGuv
Just think, 300 more years of gumming my food, shuffling here and there, and forgetting where I live and who you are. But I guess it beats the alternative.
30 posted on
07/19/2003 10:10:26 PM PDT by
AndrewC
To: AntiGuv
Sure wouldn't be a pretty sight!!
33 posted on
07/19/2003 11:43:47 PM PDT by
potlatch
(George Washington; If we are wise, let us prepare for the worst.)
To: AntiGuv
I look forward to retiring when I'm 130.
34 posted on
07/19/2003 11:55:04 PM PDT by
TomServo
("Gregory Peck -- this week on Solid Gold!")
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