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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. In other news... by ShieldW0lf · · Score: 0, Troll

    George W Bush has been re-elected to his 225th term of office. Some doubleplus-ungood thoughtcriminals have alleged that there were irregularities in the electoral process, but they are being rounded up and taken to the Ministry of Love at this very moment.

    I for one welcome our macavalian antediluvian overlords!!

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    1. Re:In other news... by freqres · · Score: 1, Troll

      No, by then all the true born-again believers will have been taken up in the Rapture and all the heathens will be left to endure the Tribulation. At least the faithful provide a guide for us that are left behind. How nice of them.

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  2. Re:See only the Bible for answers. by Cat_Byte · · Score: 0, Troll
    I was about to reply with something similar. People who don't even read the bibe seem to argue over the contents more than anyone else. Here are my additions to what you said:

    1) The World is Flat (see Jobe and the International Flat-Earth Society) What the...?

    2) But for Adam, no suitable helper was found. So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man's ribs and closed up the place with flesh. Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and brought her to the man. So where does it say the woman has a different # of ribs? This is a common mistake made by people who go by hearsay.

    3) The Earth was completely covered with water (something every geologist disputes) Funny I found many hits on google from geologists who do not dispute this. Like this one Also they have found fossils several thousand feet up in the mountains, like you said.

    4) A women reproduced asexually (a feat claimed by a number of pregnant teenagers) OK here is a spin on this. If you believe in evolutionism rather than creationalism, how does the first creature to crawl out of the pond scum get pregnant and spawn more? By this argument, it can't happen that way either.

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