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- inactive, on 10/02/2009, -3/+31The world will end in 2012.
Buried as inaccurate. - xbxoxy1, on 10/02/2009, -0/+19100 year old babies? cool!
- rushco1988, on 10/02/2009, -2/+19I see more suicides as soon as people hit 70 knowing they have 30 more years of just sitting around.
- inactive, on 10/02/2009, -4/+16I thought life expectancies were now decreasing because we;re all so fat.
- Elsewhere42, on 10/02/2009, -0/+10Don't forget the "Nerd Rapture", also known as the Singularity.
According to that humans should have an unlimited life expectancy some time around 2022:
http://www.blog.speculist.com/archives/001432.html - CaptainLando, on 10/02/2009, -0/+8By "they" do you mean that these danish age researchers are also responsible for not producing house robots and practical VR? Or are you meaning to say "they" in the stereotypical way that groups together all researchers and belittles them?
That aside, it sounds like you're angry about not having a house robot to pick up after you. Also, I'm going to assume that you define "practical" VR as such that can provide some kind of realistic gaming or pleasure functions.
Why do I want to assume this? Because I just felt like being mean for a moment. Good day. - mark076h, on 10/02/2009, -0/+8The Singularity is Near, if we live long enough we will live forever!
- JonTheGoose, on 10/02/2009, -0/+7Unless the robots destroy us all.
- DeskFlyer, on 10/02/2009, -0/+6They go from diapers right to diapers!
- Sewermutt, on 10/02/2009, -3/+9Wait... I still don't understand. How is babby formed?
- tmyprod, on 10/02/2009, -0/+6To be fair, people that were born in the 1900s-1920 were/are tougher than *****.
- ianmgull, on 10/02/2009, -0/+5Dugg for people exhibiting radioactive decay characteristics.
- Sornos, on 10/02/2009, -0/+5At that point, we ARE the robots.
- norman619, on 10/02/2009, -1/+5Let's also not forget how this would be a bad thing given our ability to take care of all those people world wide. The longer we start to live the more we need to start seriously looking at controlling our rate of reproduction. Advances like these are a double edged sword.
- hereticoftruth, on 10/02/2009, -0/+4I wonder what trends they cherry picked to get that result? I think about 3x more than we have today would be more likely. If I remembered correctly, it was noticed people over 80 have a half life of about18 months statistically.
- copypastry, on 10/02/2009, -0/+4No John, you are the robots.
- GorfTron, on 10/02/2009, -0/+4Who wants to be a baby for 100 years?
Also, they are at their most delicious now. - Digger1123, on 10/02/2009, -1/+5But not in the US, because we have ***** healthcare, oh wait...
- dawnraid101, on 10/02/2009, -0/+4Speak for yourself.
- dhughes, on 10/02/2009, -0/+4 My mom told me she was in the barn with a friend and her friend fell off the beam and was knocked out cold so my grandfather just stretched her out on the floor and left her until she woke up, or not. No 911 or even ambulances back then, you were tough or you died!
If that didn't work the Spanish Flu killed about 10% of the world population in 1918 finishing off the weak ones. - Stevethegreat, on 10/02/2009, -0/+4Studies after studies show that old people are happier with their lives than younger ones -as long as they're healthy. Being in our 20s or 30s make us think that we would be depressed in our 70s but as a matter of fact depression is FAR more prevalent to the ages of 30-40 than ANY other age group.
Our view of getting old is distorted partly by Hollywood and the cult of youth it induced us with and partly by ad companies who can't sell ***** to old people. It's not that I'm looking forward to reach those ages, far from it, it's only that 70 year olds generally have less (psychological) reasons to end their lives than 30 year olds...
In fact -what I believe is that- a healthy 70 year old has more reasons to live than any 20 year old and given the chance -say (hypothetically) remaining perpetually youthful- he/she would generally opt out to live as much as possible. With age comes wisdom or -rather- pragmatism, not just health problems... - inactive, on 10/02/2009, -2/+5chemtrail? Seriously? HILARIOUS.
Wow..I read a bunch if your comment history. What a sad life you lead. I am not even kidding. I genuinely am saying your life is really sad. I can't imagine what convinces you to get out of bed in the monring. - xexx, on 10/02/2009, -0/+3lol @ ann coulter being a source for anything.
- copypastry, on 10/02/2009, -0/+3>chemtrail
do you sleep with a tinfoil pillowcase? - algaeturd, on 10/02/2009, -0/+3Great.
The dumber, more docile kids keep getting, the longer their life expectancy is. - fuxxx, on 10/02/2009, -0/+3And so humans will degenerate for generations to come.
- Richvideo, on 10/02/2009, -0/+3Xexx is correct
I see this being a MAJOR issue in about 20 years. We really need to plan for it now. The government will be pressed to take care of this elderly population because not many people will have a 401k that is going to last 30 or 40 years past retirement.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/62 ...
The guy is usually right
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Kurzweil - xexx, on 10/02/2009, -0/+3I see just the opposite: Technology increasing life expectancy to hundreds of years old or more.
- pagemap, on 10/02/2009, -1/+4You are a realist, as sad as I am to say that.
- khfn, on 10/02/2009, -2/+4Umm, you're forgetting it says "rich countries". The US doesn't won't really apply after the facade is lifted and everyone realizes most of the wealth here has been gutted and taken and the biggest corporate tentacles have already lifted out of the ground like ancient sleeping alien space crafts and move elsewhere in the world.
Damn, I am I a pessimist or a realist? - yocouchdigga, on 10/02/2009, -1/+3Provided we don't kill ourselves or have any fundamentalist ***** get in the way of scientific advancement, I believe it.
- anakast, on 10/02/2009, -0/+2Height is correlated far more with diet than health.
- mbraynard, on 10/02/2009, -1/+3Does the study address how can you be 100 AND a baby? Is there some kind of Benjamin Button effect involved?
- MercenarySlick, on 10/02/2009, -0/+2When you remove factors that are unrelated to healthcare from the equation (car accidents, murder, climate) Americans have the longest life expectancy in the western world. Americans who don't die from unnatural causes live longer than people from any country with universal healthcare aside from Japan.
The reason that the US has lower life expectancy than other countries has precisely nothing to do with healthcare quality. Because despite the BS propaganda that you mindlessly repeat like a parrot, in every actual measurable aspect of health care quality, such as survivability from treatable diseases, the US outperforms every western country. Cancer is the leading cause of death in most of the western world, and the US has higher cancer survival rates than any European country, you know, those people whose healthcare is supposed to be so great.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1560849/UK- ... - fuxxx, on 10/02/2009, -0/+2Having fun and enjoying life doesn't always entail bad health.
- digitalArtform, on 10/02/2009, -0/+2idiot, these links don't get followed by anyone or any thing.
- Kazbaeden, on 10/02/2009, -0/+2I agree with xexx in that I see the exact opposite. Technological and scientific advances in the next 50 years will allow us to erase some of the biggest killers we know. If we don't have to deal with things like cancer, heart disease, and viruses our life expectancy won't follow the trend it has been; it will make a discrete jump to will past 100.
I mean, think about it. DNA was correctly surmised by Watson and Crick in 1953, just 56 years ago. The human genome was mapped in 2000, only 9 years ago. In the next 50 years, is there a doubt we will be able to cure these things?
1953
2000 - dhughes, on 10/02/2009, -1/+3It only applies to Ray Kurzweil, the funny thing is it will probably happen a year after he's dead.
- sodade, on 10/02/2009, -0/+1If you are 40 and already feeling the unhealth of age, 70 seems pretty *****.
- kaji823, on 10/02/2009, -0/+1unfortunately they will be fat and stupid
- xexx, on 10/02/2009, -0/+1Go live in Somalia then, you'll live to be 200 thanks to their lack of government I'm sure.
- kaji823, on 10/02/2009, -0/+1I agree, stop watching Glenn Beck.
Heart Disease is the number one killer in America. Not government. Just people's own laziness. - abdullahishtiaq, on 10/02/2009, -0/+1then we should also increase the retirement age
- xexx, on 10/02/2009, -0/+1On the plus side, citizenship can be earned.
Guess I'm a traitor now? - copypastry, on 10/02/2009, -0/+1YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
i mean
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO - hereticoftruth, on 10/02/2009, -0/+1Yes, that was the term used. For all people 80 years old, half would be dead in 18 months. For all people 100 years old, half of them would be dead in 18 months also.
- C0MF0RTABLYnumb, on 10/02/2009, -1/+2Dude, you should stop listening to Glenn Beck.
- bubba9999, on 10/02/2009, -0/+1That's if they can get health care, right?
- copypastry, on 10/02/2009, -0/+1I also habeeb it.
- Locastus, on 10/02/2009, -0/+1You need to do a way instaind mother
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