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people in the USA could be living to 100 now if they didnt eat so much garbage. We've made huge advances in longevity, but people somehow always manage to undo them through bad health.
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The story has reached the BBC website if you wan the simple version.
Personally I will continue to wave two fingers at patented drugs and stick to the glass of red wine per day approach to longevity.Never give an AI an even break.Comment
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anyone else discontent with facial skin? should I open a new poncy thread?
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What? the 'discontent with facial skin vaccine' thread? 'Even 500 fewer pimples would be pretty nice'.
Eat right, exercise and keep your mind active. Uncle Red says you'll be better off heading my advice than looking for some expensive pharmaceutical solution to all your problems.Comment
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this (perhaps) raises an interesting point. if one day in future people could be made to live to say 200, would that mean that people have a longer time to bear children. so instead of women becoming infirtile in their 40s, they could have children up until their 70s or 80s?Originally posted by Lefty Scaevola
Logevity research will not get much goverment support because it would be a finacial disaster for western goverment and thier various persion systmes that need less old folks and more young workers to support them."The Christian way has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found to be hard and left untried" - GK Chesterton.
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Well, that's what you would think. But the US at least is putting big money toward it.Logevity research will not get much goverment support because it would be a finacial disaster for western goverment and thier various persion systmes that need less old folks and more young workers to support them.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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And as the average lifespan advances the more the 'manditory retirement at 65' idea goes out the window. If people live to be 100 they might be working to age 85.Comment
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If increased longevity goes along with a engthening of the productive part of life, then this might jnot be a huge disaster for society: if people can be kept working 2/3 of their lives even if they live to 150-170 then fine. If not, then this type of reaserch would collapse.
Also, to think a few corps would be able to have these drugs under patent for a long time is silly. At any point some other gov. might just create a cheap variant and tell the US corps to screw themselves and their patent: this sort of thing could not be kept as a corporate monopoly.If you don't like reality, change it! me
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Originally posted by Proteus_MST
Who wants to live forever?
Clinical immortality or nonexistent oblivion...a hard choice
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Yeah, I think that the increase in longevity would be one that would be hand-in-hand with health for that age...so yeah, I would expect this would prolong working lives in the end.Speaking of Erith:
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