Is the Human Race (At least the wealthy ones) drifiting to virtual immortality?

[tnitsuj]

From NYTIMES via CNN.COM

How long do you think you will live?

 

[Gyrene]

I don't want to live that long. 80 years is plenty for me.

 

[Tret]

depends If i don't get old till like 550 years I would.

 

[Garet Jax]

Crazy. I wouldn't want to be the first. Once they iron out the process and make it so the side effects are non-existant, it may be cool.

 

[StageLeft]

Not anytime soon.

"Our life expectancy will be in the region of 5,000 years" in rich countries in the year 2100, predicts Aubrey de Grey, a scholar at Cambridge University. (This is, of course, a great prediction to make because none of us will be around in 2100 to mock him if he's wrong.)

Bullsh*t. Even if your body was never going to die of natural causes the inate danger that comes in living in our real world (plane crashes, violence, house fires, etc.) would prevent people from living that long unless they're placed in a small rubber-walled room and monitored 24/7.

 

[tnitsuj]

Originally posted by: Skoorb
Not anytime soon.

I can guarantee that for you. ...ominous drums in the background.

 

[Electric Amish]

Damn! I thought it said "immorality".

 

[thebestMAX]

Me too, EA.

 

[rpberry123]

just what the world needs..... an antidote to the darwin awards....

 

[Kadarin]

I wouldn't mind living either forever or for a very long time, provided I don't get old in the physical sense. The thing that really sucks the most about living to 100 is that you spend most of your life as an old man (or woman).

 

[dighn]

i'm sure science will get us there one day. but not sure if it would be a good thing... that's gonna depend on a lot of factors

 

[Ameesh]

Originally posted by: Skoorb
Not anytime soon.

"Our life expectancy will be in the region of 5,000 years" in rich countries in the year 2100, predicts Aubrey de Grey, a scholar at Cambridge University. (This is, of course, a great prediction to make because none of us will be around in 2100 to mock him if he's wrong.)

Bullsh*t. Even if your body was never going to die of natural causes the inate danger that comes in living in our real world (plane crashes, violence, house fires, etc.) would prevent people from living that long unless they're placed in a small rubber-walled room and monitored 24/7.

i doubt that.

 

[bandana163]

Seeing the speed of technological development, the faster regeneration may not be far away. And that could improve our odds a lot.

 

[CubicZirconia]

I don't see why someone wouldn't want to live a very long time provided they don't age much physically. If I was given the opportunity to live 600 years I'd say "Hell yes, bring on the next 6 centuries."

And I also highly doubt that everyone would have to live in a bubble there whole life to live to age 600. I'd say the majority of people die from some sort of natural cause, not through some inate danger of living on today's earth. Everyone might be a little more careful if they knew they could live forever, but I don't think it would change daily life all that much.

 

[bandana163]

And there is a chance that no humans will exist 600 years later. Which sane being would use nuclear weapons against its own planet?

 

[StageLeft]

Originally posted by: Ameesh

Originally posted by: Skoorb
Not anytime soon.

"Our life expectancy will be in the region of 5,000 years" in rich countries in the year 2100, predicts Aubrey de Grey, a scholar at Cambridge University. (This is, of course, a great prediction to make because none of us will be around in 2100 to mock him if he's wrong.)

Bullsh*t. Even if your body was never going to die of natural causes the inate danger that comes in living in our real world (plane crashes, violence, house fires, etc.) would prevent people from living that long unless they're placed in a small rubber-walled room and monitored 24/7.

i doubt that.

Do the math. Current life expectancy is let's say 100 (it's much lower). 5000 years means you're living 50 times as long and exposed to 50 times the chance of a fatal accident in your life. I'm sure we can both agree that the average person has a greater than 1/50 chance of having a fatal accident prior to dying of "natural" causes.

All that aside with people living to 5000 imagine how many kids they'd have? The population of the world would be grossly overbloated. Can you imagine the congestion in cities?

 

[dighn]

Originally posted by: Skoorb

Originally posted by: Ameesh

Originally posted by: Skoorb
Not anytime soon.

"Our life expectancy will be in the region of 5,000 years" in rich countries in the year 2100, predicts Aubrey de Grey, a scholar at Cambridge University. (This is, of course, a great prediction to make because none of us will be around in 2100 to mock him if he's wrong.)

Bullsh*t. Even if your body was never going to die of natural causes the inate danger that comes in living in our real world (plane crashes, violence, house fires, etc.) would prevent people from living that long unless they're placed in a small rubber-walled room and monitored 24/7.

i doubt that.

Do the math. Current life expectancy is let's say 100 (it's much lower). 5000 years means you're living 50 times as long and exposed to 50 times the chance of a fatal accident in your life. I'm sure we can both agree that the average person has a greater than 1/50 chance of having a fatal accident prior to dying of "natural" causes.

All that aside with people living to 5000 imagine how many kids they'd have? The population of the world would be grossly overbloated. Can you imagine the congestion in cities?

umm i'm not sure about the 1/50 figure. that means 1 out of every 50 people would die of unnatural causes. doesn't sound right to me.

as for population, yeah we'd need to have some drastic population control policy.

 

[AccruedExpenditure]

Originally posted by: tnitsuj
From NYTIMES via CNN.COM

How long do you think you will live?

This is the biggest load of bullsh*t i've heard in quite sometime. We can hardly make STRUCTURES that last for 200+ years and these people are trying to tell us that we can live for 600.

HA!

I'll take 125 and call it a lifetime.

 

[StageLeft]

that means 1 out of every 50 people would die of unnatural causes. doesn't sound right to me.

Truly I have no idea what the figure is. Let's say it's even just 1/100. Well then in that case it will definitely skew the results below 5000 anyway

 

[StageLeft]

In the U.S., your chance of dying in a car accident is 1 in 88. Considering other ways of dying I'd say you probably have a greater than 1/50 chance of dying from an "accident" in your life

 

[dafatha00]

Originally posted by: Skoorb

that means 1 out of every 50 people would die of unnatural causes. doesn't sound right to me.

Truly I have no idea what the figure is. Let's say it's even just 1/100. Well then in that case it will definitely skew the results below 5000 anyway

Still though...even living over 1000+ years is amazing.

 

[Match]

If I live to be 5000 years old, do I still get to retire at 65?

 

[StageLeft]

Considering all accidents in your life you have a 1/24 chance of dying from one of them.

Hmm, goodluck with living to 5000.

 

[StageLeft]

Originally posted by: Match
If I live to be 5000 years old, do I still get to retire at 65?

Sorry. You have to work until you're around 3500. Then you can enjoy 500 years of retirement and then spend the next millennium in an old age home very, very slowly dying.

 

[AccruedExpenditure]

Originally posted by: Skoorb
Considering all accidents in your life you have a 1/24 chance of dying from one of them.

Hmm, goodluck with living to 5000.

so lets see here, every year you have a 1 in 1820 chance of dying from some sort of accident so in a 5000 year life time you'd die 2.74747474 times.