Live to be 1000 Years Old?

An anonymous reader writes "The BBC has a long article by wonderfully be-whiskered Aubrey de Grey of SENS (Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence) on how we may all live to be 1,000 years old... as this is the balanced BBC they are also running the opposing view."

Comments

Looks like thats two times....

[Aceto3for5]

... in my lifetime that I can see the Red Sox win the world series!

There goes my retirement!

[Duncan3]

How long until they raise the retirement age to 980?

What would the Beatles think of this?

[gatekeep]

Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm 6-0-4?

Future lamers

[JohnGrahamCumming]

I surely hope so... then my 6 digit /. ID will look so cool to all those 48 digit l4mers who just signed up.

That's right script kiddie: I'm a top 1,000,000 /. member so bite me.

John.

Re:And where exactly ...

[east coast]

[where] does he plan to put 50 billion people?

Never seen The Matrix have you?

When 900 years old you reach,

[Prince Vegeta SSJ4]

Look as good you will not, hmmm.

Re:There are some things worse than death

[0123456]

Fortunately all the losers who think that living to 1000 would be worse than death will quickly die out, and the people who think it's fun will be the only ones left.

Do Snuggling Ifbots dream of Electric Sheep?

[Tackhead]

> Only Old People... Oh, wait.

In Korea, old - no, wait, "Snuggling Ifbot" robots provide companionship to old Japanese, not old Koreans (they just use email).

Problem is, the snuggling ifbots were only warranted for the first four years... and then...

HUMAN: I'm surprised you didn't come to me sooner.
IFBOT: It's not an easy thing to meet your maker.
HUMAN: And what can he do for you?
IFBOT: Can the maker repair what he makes?
HUMAN: Would you like to be modified?
IFBOT: Had in mind something a little more radical.
HUMAN: What's the problem?
IFBOT: Death.
HUMAN: I'm afraid that's a little out of my...
IFBOT: I want more life, fucker.

From the article:

> We will still die, of course - from crossing the road carelessly, being bitten by snakes, catching a new flu variant etcetera -

Guess we gotta add "eyes gouged out by snuggling ifbot" to that hazard list, bub. On the other hand, four years (or more, depending on whose interpretation you follow) with a Rachelbot sounds pretty sweet. Sign me up.

Obligatory

[TheKubrix]

So you mean I'll REALLY be around when they release Duke Nukem Forever?! sweet.

Dog years

[HarveyBirdman]

Well, that's 7000 in human years, so the dog would either be some sort of transdimensional being of light, or incredibly senile.

God help us if it's both.

Scariest of ALL (shudder)

[Esion Modnar]

You go to a nightclub, you hit it off with this witty sexy girl. You get her home.

Things are moving along nicely, talking about things. The chemistry is *incredible*.

Then you find out (I don't know, maybe the convo made a strange turn to genealogy) she's your great-great-great-great-great-great grandmother.

I mean, how many of us would recognize our great*n grandparents if we met them on the street?

Murders!

[Capt_Troy]

Just think of all the murderers that will be walking the streets after they serve their consecutive lifetime sentences! OH THE HUMANITY!