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Live to be 1000 Years Old?

Posted by michael on from the better-start-saving-for-retirement dept.

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."

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  1. Looks like thats two times.... by Aceto3for5 · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  2. There goes my retirement! by Duncan3 · · Score: 5, Funny

    How long until they raise the retirement age to 980?

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  3. What would the Beatles think of this? by gatekeep · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  4. Future lamers by JohnGrahamCumming · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  5. Re:There are some things worse than death by 0123456 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  6. Obligatory by TheKubrix · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  7. Scariest of ALL (shudder) by Esion+Modnar · · Score: 5, Funny
    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?

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