Engineering An End to Aging

Reason writes "Biogerontologist Aubrey de Grey has put forward a biological engineering plan to end human aging and co-founded the Methuselah Mouse Prize in recent years. Now he is finally getting some of the public recognition he deserves in an excellent David Stipp article at Fortune Magazine. If you ever wondered exactly how to go about engineering away the 50 million deaths due to aging that occur each and every year - and how to bring about a sea change in the scientific establishment - then this is the place to start. As an added bonus, I don't think you'll find a more succinct (and utterly British) answer to overpopulation objections to life extension than the one at the end of this article!"

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some one has to say (do) it.

[mpost4]

If i lived forever I would get board, I probably join Wowbagger The Infinitely Prolonged in insulting the universe, we could insult everybody in it. Individually, personally, one by one, and in Alphabetical Order. I don't care if it is imposable I can dream can't I?

http://hhgproject.org/entries/wowbagger.html

Re:some one has to say (do) it.

[fyngyrz]

When someone gets up on a plank like this, it really goes against my grain. Same old saw, time after time. It lacks polish, not to mention finish. I mean, branch out a little, why don't you? If you're going to stump for puns, don't just seed one and hope someone will twig to it... get right in there and employ a little graft. Really, it's as easy as falling off a log.

In Soviet Russia, YOU are the Knothead!

Job applications of the future

[mccalli]

Java/Swing developer required. Must have a minimum of 800 years of experience, with at least 600 of those having been gained in a financial environment.

Cheers,
Ian

Re:Job applications of the future

[period3]

If we're still using Java/Swing 800 years from now, then you can keep your immortality drugs!

Re:Job applications of the future

[Tablizer]

If we're still using Java/Swing 800 years from now, then you can keep your immortality drugs!

1964 Slashdot: "If we're still using COBOL 40 years from now, then you can keep your age-extension drugs!"

Re:Off with their balls!

[Tablizer]

If people are going to stop dying they had best stop reproducing as well. There's already too many of you people breathing my air and eating my corn chips.

That's the roaches and rats, dude. Time to get a maid I thinks.

(Shamelessly ripped off from The Onion)

[The-Bus]

In other news:

World Death Rate Remains Steady at 100%

World Death Rate, Annual
------------------------
2004 (est) 100.00%
2003 100.00%
2002 100.00%
2001 100.00%
2000 100.00%
Source: USA Today

Wow, that is hilarious!

[gosand]

As an added bonus, I don't think you'll find a more succinct (and utterly British) answer to overpopulation objections to life extension than the one at the end of this article!"

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HAHAHAHAHAHA! Those crazy Brits!