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this dude is hecka geriatric...

Being the oldest person on the planet means that every single person that was alive the day he was born is now dead, as well as a large percentage of the people born during those 126 years, more than two billion people died in his lifetime.
 
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Printer Bandit said:
Shame he had no kids.

Whatever special sauce he had in his genes will be lost.
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You're looking at it backwards. No kids, never married goes a long way towards explaining why he has lived as long as he has.

126 years though-if that's not a world record I bet it's pretty close.
 
There is no conclusive evidence that he is that old and they are about to perform some tests to figure out if his claim is real or not. He wouldn't be the first person that claims to be a ridiculous age and isn't anywhere near that claim.
 
HumblePie said:
There is no conclusive evidence that he is that old and they are about to perform some tests to figure out if his claim is real or not. He wouldn't be the first person that claims to be a ridiculous age and isn't anywhere near that claim.
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Doesn't sound like he claimed it though - somebody went through his historical record and asked him pointed questions about what he remembers and then deduced his age.

By all means though it's still circumstantial.
 
ThatsABigOne said:
I call bullshit on his age.
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"He has lived his entire life without documents proving his age and only received a birth certificate last month"

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-doesn-t-like-taking-baths.html#ixzz37eGV2ZxS

his mama was a slave though, and they abolished slavery in the 1880's in brazil, so hes probably pretty damn old


http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/07/15/us-brazil-oldestperson-idUKKBN0FK2E120140715

Siqueira said Dos Santos' documents were granted by a judge based on interviews with the presumed centenarian.

"We are only saying this is his presumed age," said Siqueira
 
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Markbnj said:
What can they do? Cut off a leg and count the rings?
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As funny as this comment is, you should know there are very good scientific ways to accurately estimate a person's age similar to "counting rings" of a tree. It's not going to give an exact date down to the day, but it can estimate the year pretty well depending upon the test.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2465138/

For example and MRI test looking at the fusing process of wrist bones across a wide sample has shown full fusion doesn't ever occur before age 17. The median of full fusion, as shown by an MRI and not an X-ray, is at 18.3 years. X-rays are a bit off as they aren't as precise an instrument to measure with, although they are cheaper to use still.

As for determining the age of the very old, still not that hard to do either.

There are several tests though that can be used to determine age with a various amount of deviation in the result. DNA tests looking at the telemore fraying for example can be used to determine the age of a person +/- 2.5 years of accuracy. That just takes a single drop of blood or DNA sample to run.

When several tests are run though, as needed, it's possible to get a pretty good accurate age for a person making claims such as being 120+ years old.
 
Markbnj said:
The special sauce might simply have been chance.
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And there is no guarantee that the gene that is making him last this long (if it even is related to genetics) would have been passed along anyway. while I've lost 30-40% of my hair my brother has lost none but he outweighs me by about 60lbs so I missed out on the "fat" gene LOL..
 
HumblePie said:
As funny as this comment is, you should know there are very good scientific ways to accurately estimate a person's age similar to "counting rings" of a tree. It's not going to give an exact date down to the day, but it can estimate the year pretty well depending upon the test.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2465138/

For example and MRI test looking at the fusing process of wrist bones across a wide sample has shown full fusion doesn't ever occur before age 17. The median of full fusion, as shown by an MRI and not an X-ray, is at 18.3 years. X-rays are a bit off as they aren't as precise an instrument to measure with, although they are cheaper to use still.

As for determining the age of the very old, still not that hard to do either.

There are several tests though that can be used to determine age with a various amount of deviation in the result. DNA tests looking at the telemore fraying for example can be used to determine the age of a person +/- 2.5 years of accuracy. That just takes a single drop of blood or DNA sample to run.

When several tests are run though, as needed, it's possible to get a pretty good accurate age for a person making claims such as being 120+ years old.
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Yeah I knew they could accurately characterize it, but what I don't know is if they can tell the difference between, say, 109 years and 120 years.
 
Markbnj said:
Yeah I knew they could accurately characterize it, but what I don't know is if they can tell the difference between, say, 109 years and 120 years.
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109 to 126 is pretty easy to tell the difference. 120 to 126, not so much.

Most people that have claimed to be over 120 years of age though are far from it. Most test into the range of 80ish. They are far off and know it.
 
OBLAMA2009 said:
that dude doesnt look like hes 100, his face and hands dont have than many wrinkles
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Darker skin is resistant to UV rays, which helps prevent the breakdown of collagen and elastin (wrinkles and sagginess, basically). I still question his age, but dark-skinned people will usually have better looking skin because, to put it simply, they've got natural sunblock.
 
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