Want to live to 150? How about 1,000?

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http://old.news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110704/lf_nm_life/us_ageing_cure



Fascinating stuff. Doesn't this have to do with the manipulation of telomeres and telomerase?

The implications of the elimination of aging for humanity are going to be enormous. THAT will cause a population explosion.

More fascinating is very few would make it to 800 years of age just due to accidental death. It's in the numbers how many falls on icy sidewalks you survive.

 

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No aging would be the death of creativity, innovation and society. We would stagnate and fail.

I hope for the betterment of society some nano-bot is released that kills people when they hit 100-150. Certainly we could improve quality of life during the later years, but living forever would be disastrous.