Should we cure aging and live to 1000?
 

Sounds a horrendous idea to me - what do you think?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4003063.stm

sounds awesome:D

I feel a little stressed by this. I wouldn't be able to decide either way.
Ergh, weird strange thought.

Without even readng the link..........people have a notional life expectancy, then they out-live it and see their kids die it becomes distressing. My dad is 79 and scared of dying, but he knows never gonna crack the conundrum of nuclear fusion and close to time. Human beings decay and get sore and die. Anything else is unnatural IMHO

Ok, while reading it all I was thinking - apart from the obvious - was will this be attainable to all or on a scale, like the wealthy get the treatment while the rest die early?

Sounds awful. It devalues life.

would be good to have the chose of when you die

Horrendous. It's Quality of life, not quantitiy.

And the world would get massssively crowded with everyone staying alive + more being born

Ew.

The world would be full with old wrinkly tiny people, and it would just be horrible and ugly.

Watch some movies - Logan's Run correctly predicted we cannot afford old people. We can keep then alive no problem but virtual vegetables (my uncle is).

In 50 years your kids will have to consider you as a healthy vegetable with dementia - medical science can keep them alive already - imagine in 2050.

When I was at Uni in 80s we were able to predict the problem of non-workiing oldies in 2010 and we were correct - I got my thesis on it - I hate to think the new predictions.

That's where good old Tribal Sacrificing of the weak comes in. Fun for all the family.

"Hope I die before I get old" - as the old pensioner from the Who once sang

As much as I'd love to be alive in 1,000 years to see how the world has progressed, I don't think, for the sake of humanity it is a good idea in the slightest, and nor do I think it is realistically possible in our lifetime, no matter what these "scientists" proclaim.

ah no way! i'd hate to live that long!

100 is easy though as life expectancy in your lifetime - what you gonna do with us 80s and 90s who cannot remember what day it is? Gonna work 80 hours per week to keep us all in homes?

Fine for me providing the extended life is healthy and reasonably young looking. It would be great to see new advancements as time goes by...What a fantastiic technological change since the early thirties......

Major logistical problem however.......The world would be terribly over populated and as such would be a pressure cooker of mankind competing and taking rescources from the planet.......Even more wars may in the end reduce life span along with more starvation.........

Also a dreadfull prospect to think insane political dictator could live to be a thousand years..........

If ever it became technically possible I think only the rich and elete and ruthless criminals would have access to it.........

"And remember, none of that time would be lived in frailty and debility and dependence - you would be youthful, both physically and mentally, right up to the day you mis-time the speed of that oncoming lorry."

You didn't read it properly Patrick - that is just it - we wouldn't be old and wrinkly as you so charmingly put it! We wouldn't grow older!

"Hope I die before I get old" but Rodger Daltrey is now a coffin-dodger

No on the New Moonbase
I will be able to control the Walmart Food Dome.


My body would sit inside a Robot case
then the robot moves to my mind.


Yes I can see 1000 year olds as fine.



Life In The Fast Lane.

"Also a dreadfull prospect to think insane political dictator could live to be a thousand years.........."

No I will be fine
on the Walmart Moonbase

A thousand year Reich says David Cameron with his fag from public school days cleaning up the behind!

As long as I still look hot, I'm good. :hugesmile:

Not only the Bible but a number of ancient sources talk about people who used to live to great ages like this. 500, 600 and nearing 1000 years old. Often these people are likened to gods, sages, titans, patriarchs. If you think about it - they would seem like 'gods' among short-lived men. Just think of the astonishing wealth, knowledge, skills and techniques someone would accumulate in 400 years!

The thing here though.. never mind longevity - how healthy and what quality of life do we have for how long?

Crazy stuff.

You will not be able to get It Up
but your Robot case can with connections to your head.