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- jsg7, on 10/12/2007, -5/+79He can single-handedly kill social security...
- Yrlec, on 10/12/2007, -2/+61I believe that if he succeeds it will be the greatest scientific breakthrough ever. It would revolutionize the way we think about life.
- aplusplus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+59How do you think that beard will look in 1,000 years?
- techmonkey4u, on 10/12/2007, -1/+41Duke Nukem Forever comes out that year
- LacanX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+32@dmr0240
Did you even read the artical? The artical says they are going to stop(or greatly reduce) ageing, a.k.a. no frailness or anything you just mentioned. - Yrlec, on 10/12/2007, -1/+33"And hearing, sight, and bones, how will those hold up over 1,000 years?"
From the article:
"It is not just an idea: it's a very detailed plan to repair all the types of molecular and cellular damage that happen to us over time."
I hope you know that our eyes, ears and bones also are made out of cells. - rocketrye12, on 10/12/2007, -1/+32anyone who said that a 360 year prison term was pointless should now bit their lip.
- Haroldx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+29Better take REALLY good care of your teeth.
- foolfromhell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+27If people can live for 1000 years, a trip to Mars wouldnt be suck a huge chunk outta their lives. We can migrate!
- fleetskeet, on 10/12/2007, -1/+27Some people in the UK are researching the use of stem cells to grow new teeth, and have successfully grown new teeth in mice.
- roastedbagel, on 10/12/2007, -5/+31How about your nose and ears?? These 2 body parts, are the only body parts that continue to grow until the day you die. Plus, I wouldn't want to live for 1,000 years..
- chicken101, on 10/12/2007, -0/+26The playstation168 will just be a japanese guy that comes to your house and punches you in the face.
- artyraptor, on 10/12/2007, -4/+29"On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero."
The article had an interesting point about mortality rates. I wonder how paranoid you would be if you knew you had the potential to live that long. I can imagine people worrying every moment about constantly staying safe, just so they can be that old. - Bdog2g2, on 10/12/2007, -2/+25well I guess that'll around the time people figure out that MySpace and AOL actually suck
- brandizzle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+22Think of how many scientific advancements would happen. The scientist wouldn't die, so he'd have 900 more years to work.
900 years of knowledge. - TiMMY8765, on 10/12/2007, -1/+23"Duke Nukem Forever comes out that year"
...as a launch title on the Infinium Phantom - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+24"We'll all have to live in those pods that they have in Japanese hotels. But we will still have a food shortage."
The entire population of the Earth today could fit in Texas with a population density lower than NYC. That's pretty comfortable.
There is no food shortage in the world. As Sam Kinison once said, speaking to starving ethiopians, "You live in a ***** DESERT! see this stuff? it's SAND! You know what it's gonna be in 200 years? SAND! MOVE to where the FOOD IS! - chicken101, on 10/12/2007, -0/+21Seriously, imagine how good a guitar player you'd be after 1000 years?
- leboff, on 10/12/2007, -0/+21excellent point.
dying young takes on a whole new meaning when you not only missed out on 50 years.. but 950... - MikeKnoop, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18This is a nice quote:
"If changing our world is playing God, it is just one more way in which God made us in His image."
-Mike - prockcore, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17Yeah, just what I want.. to not be able to retire at 65, instead retire at 900. Oh boy! Another 870 years till retirement! I can't wait!
- jleedev, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16Hang on a sec...can't we already do this with scientology?
- kolop1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15 PS168? The PS3 may be ready to lauch by then.
- alamojo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14Anyone who doesn't want to live to 1,000 has the option of not doing it. It isn't compulsory. Just kill yourself if you get bored or can't stand it anymore.
- moisie, on 10/12/2007, -7/+20That'll sure help with the overpopulation problem
- traceur, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13think of how much you can learn, how many times you can fall in love, how many places you can see, how much joy you can feel
life is beautiful - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Just google 'telomere' to see why this is totally wrong!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telomere
Think those plastic/metal things on the ends of shoelaces which stop them unravelling. - walterd93, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10That seems reasonable. in 40 years it will be 2046(well, duh) and there will be gigantic changes in biotech(good changes). So, if you're 60, all you have to do, is live to 100 and then you get a new body-yay.
- slicedoranges, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Seriously, why do people put an apostrophe in plural words?
- techmonkey4u, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11You don't have to be 100 to forget stuff you've learned. I don't remember stuff I learned 2 months ago. It's the "use it or lose it" factor.
- mikeyeah, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Awesome!!! I'll be alive when PlayStation168 comes out!
- tw0bit, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10"I think the first person to live to 1,000 might be 60 already." ***** YEAH!!!
- exipolar, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11so do you want to die at 29 from natural causes?
- slicedoranges, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9If you think about it, you'll never get old... Does this mean you retire, then go back to work when your money runs out?
- exipolar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9But then again, with out ever increasing control over nanotechnology and synthesized intellectual systems (AI), who's to say that we'll even need our bodies for even 100 years? That would be a real big problem, bodies that can last 1000 years, all of them empty
- somesthetic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9oh, god no.
I'll feel like a real loser if I get 1000 years and I still dont accomplish anything. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11Highlander didn't forget.
- brownstone, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Man, 1,000 years of daytime TV and waiting in line at the post office for my pension. :(
- vuke69, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I doubt it, emos have built in population control.
- MikeKnoop, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I also think its interesting to look at this fact. "Technology", the technology most people know now, has been around for what, 20 years?
Just imagine being 1,000. Wow.
-Mike - exipolar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7but isn't conquering disease another way of "meddling with nature?"
I'd have to say yes, due to all of the bacterial strains that we've accidentally made due to "careless meddling" - leboff, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8at what point does your brain become unable to retain new knowledge..
i think by year 100 you'll start forgetting the stuff you've learned... - jm9206755, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Much of the gerontology community would disagree with you. Aubrey de Grey is VERY well respected in scientific communities. He is seen as eccentric but incredibly knowledgeable.
- ricree, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Maybe you'd get sick of life after 1000 years, but maybe you wouldn't. I, for one, wouldn't mind having the opportunity to find out first hand.
- Lumiras, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9Let's really look at this, would anyone actually want to live to be 1,000?
I mean, think of all the stuff that's gone on, how much the world has changed in 1,000 years, would you actually want to be there through all of that change? A lot of terrible stuff has happened in the past 1,000 years.
200? sure, if I can remain in good health for that amount of time, but 1,000 just seems a little too much - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7On the other hand it means 900 more years of handouts for the lazy slobs that refuse to get off welfare.
- galrok, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7"I really wouldnt want to, unless I was rich :)"
Well thats good, only the rich are going to be able to afford it:) - antitab, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Exactly -- I've been saying this since the same story was posted on Slashdot two years ago. The thing that nobody thinks about in regards to this is the effect it would have on our collective knowledge. How much time and energy do we waste by re-teaching everything to a new generation every thirty years? Imagine how much more could be accomplished and understood with that much time to ponder!
- Genghis1, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9We better find a new planets quick. All those people living to 1000 and continuing to deny global warming is real will turn the Earth into a wasteland.
- giraldus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Two words: compound interests!...
now think of possible consequences; like all new technologies, it won't be cheap -- at least initially -- and thus be only available to a few; not to mention those who will not want to avail to it because of religious beliefs; that should lead to interesting social changes; back to money: there will be some who will avail to the new 900 years low monthly payments mortgages, those who won't; the former being already presumably richer than the latter since they can afford the new anti aging treatments... this is going to be a lot of fun.
And what about education? how long before the only way to land a job that pays more than peanuts will require a minimum of 20 PhDs in as many different fields, not to mention a century or two of experience?
as I say, a lot of fun to look forward to :-) -
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