[LS]

Hahah. No, you compliment me by calling me an engineer. I am a HISTORIAN, and I specialize in business/technology history. That's why I'm not at all put off by "wild" predictions, because every time in history someone has something completely nutty, it tends to become a reality in about 50 years!

I'm also a Christian, and realize it is "appointed once for man to die" so that no amount of research will make us immortal in this life. But, hey, Adam and the early guys lived to be about 800, and the number of man's days is anywhere from 80-120 years, depending on how you read scripture. So I'm not settling for anything less than 120.

[madvlad]

I like history!

But I like science and technology more! bwahahahahaha

Business/technology history huh?
I am fairly well versed in modern financial
markets history. Don't wish to repeat some
of those mistakes!

I think you may be surprised. The human body
speaks to vastly extended longevity. The
regenerative ability of the liver, the extensive
neurological cell population (neurons don't
reproduce per se), etc. And as you pointed out,
the airplane and spacetravel among other things.

Besides, if 'immortality' meant a lifespan of
800 yrs, would you take it or turn it down?
Imagine Micheal Jordan slammin' bballs at age
387! Playing well into his 300s!

Mad Vlad

[Physicist]

That's why I'm not at all put off by "wild" predictions, because every time in history someone has something completely nutty, it tends to become a reality in about 50 years!

See, that's part of the problem with a historian's view of things. People only write down the stuff that pans out, so in retrospect it does look like that. But take my word for it, for every nutty idea that becomes a reality, ten thousand end up in the rubbish tip.

The reason that the best ideas seemed nutty at first is because people do not start out with a very good "physics sense". The conclusions we form on the basis of our intuition are most usually wrong.

Antigravity is a good case in point. Because there's an attractive force, it "stands to reason" that there will be a repulsive force to go along with it. But the math says otherwise, and the it knows so much more than we do.