New Drugs May Extend Our Lifespan to 150 Years
- Thread starter Greg Tito
- Start date
Oh perfect 150 years of living, we're having population/pension troubles from old age NOW. 150 years of life would require a complete overhaul of our entire economy especially if people were still becoming unsuitable for work at the same age they do now.
Whatever, I never planned to retire anyway. Bring it on, I tell you. I could use some extra years not being dead.
Then they'll just push retirement to 130 and we'll have gained nothing in that regard.
A whole slew of society and social changes would have to be made. But if we can tack on extra years when we're stronger, healthier, and maintain the use of our mind that would be great.
A whole slew of society and social changes would have to be made. But if we can tack on extra years when we're stronger, healthier, and maintain the use of our mind that would be great.
Meh, the effects of resveratrol have been none to science for nearly a decade now. This is nothing new.
I hate to side with socialist extraordinare George Bernard Shaw on this, but I really don't think it would be feasible to prolong everyone's life to the max. As long as we cannot spread the virus of mankind marmalade all over the universe, we're stuck to this one blue marble. It's getting crowded already, and we don't really seem to get along that well.
If someone is really, really productive, an übermensch genius and irreplacable asset to mankind, yes, make the bastard stay alive for a thousand years. If we're talking you and me and everyone else, I doubt we'd be of much use to society or humankind in general... or would we also have to work and pay taxes for, say, one hundred years of that extended shelf life our meatsuits get?
A lot of people I've met so far get a bit tired of life and everything around age eighty. Not all go loopy, insane or Alzheimer. But some have started smoking, bungee jumping or go otherwise rather silly, only to not get bored out of their minds. I am not sure I'd want to see plenty more of that.
If someone is really, really productive, an übermensch genius and irreplacable asset to mankind, yes, make the bastard stay alive for a thousand years. If we're talking you and me and everyone else, I doubt we'd be of much use to society or humankind in general... or would we also have to work and pay taxes for, say, one hundred years of that extended shelf life our meatsuits get?
A lot of people I've met so far get a bit tired of life and everything around age eighty. Not all go loopy, insane or Alzheimer. But some have started smoking, bungee jumping or go otherwise rather silly, only to not get bored out of their minds. I am not sure I'd want to see plenty more of that.
I know, quoted several billion times, sorry to be another, but could not let this comment go.Ruwrak said:
It is precisely becuase of nature's course that we want to try to extend our lives. Every creature in nature is born with a desire to survive as long as they can. Anyone in this forum who does not want to live as long as they can are ignoring a natural drive.
In nature the only time the desire to survive gets overridden is by the desire to reproduce. As in male spiders that offer themselves as food to females if they get to mate.
So the desire to live longer is perfectly natural. Thise who argue against this are the unnatural ones....
To the O/T. As has already been echoed before, I would go for this if it also holds off mental deterioration. Dementia is big in my family.
You know that the 150 age though will only be for people who start taking the drugs when they are children. I bet whne it comes out it will only have any extending effect for people who are 5 year younger than I am at the time. So mine will be one of the last generations to die under 100.
At some point you will start to be able to live a lot longer. You will take one drug that gets you to 150, but before you die they will bring out another that takes you to 300, then 100 year later one that takes you to 600, and so on.
Imagine all of us were immortal. Imagine some of us doing silly things, like gayfully getting shot in the face by muggers, ramming our cars into concrete structures and doing all sorts of not too recreational drugs. What use is the theoretical concept of immortality then? Not much, I'd say. People do stupid things, and people who see their lifespan doubled will quadruple their quota of doing the darndest things, because, in the end, we're still ook ook animals.Kalezian said:
I'm all the way with you on the colony far, far away, though. Mankind is so great, we just need to spread the love all across the universe. We're so sexy black holes go anorexic just to attract our attention.
I wholeheartedly support this, assuming the regenerative qualities of the drug prevent the negative aspects of aging as well. We'd have to place restrictions on breeding- to stop people having 30 kids in their lifetime- but that's the price of screwing death.
We are very, very good at adapting. That's sort of our thing, really- we could deal with any economic stresses, given some time. Which we'd have, in spades.
Besides, they aren't going to force this, if they get it to work. And it'll probably be fuck expensive, so the few who do extend their life'll just have to take steps to mitigate societal damage.
We are very, very good at adapting. That's sort of our thing, really- we could deal with any economic stresses, given some time. Which we'd have, in spades.
Besides, they aren't going to force this, if they get it to work. And it'll probably be fuck expensive, so the few who do extend their life'll just have to take steps to mitigate societal damage.
I dunno... by 100 we end up practically decrepit in most cases, so I'm not so sure I'd want to live for an extra 50 or so years after that.
However, if I was going to stay young and healthy (or at least, nowhere near as shriveled when compared to the average century-old person), then sure... why not?
However, if I was going to stay young and healthy (or at least, nowhere near as shriveled when compared to the average century-old person), then sure... why not?
I'm not even a big fan of 65-year-olds fucking up the vote, I'd sure as hell not want them to live to be 150.
