Humans Could Live For 1000 Years

Maajid wrote to mention an article on the Chronicle of Higher Education site about a biogerontologist who thinks he can kill death. From the article: "The 42-year-old English biogerontologist has made his name by claiming that some people alive right now could live for 1,000 years or longer. Maybe much longer. Growing old is not, in his view, an inevitable consequence of the human condition; rather, it is the result of accumulated damage at the cellular and molecular levels that medical advances will soon be able to prevent -- or even reverse -- allowing people to go on living pretty much indefinitely. We'll still have to worry about angry bears and falling pianos, but aging, the biggest killer of all, will cease to be a threat. Death, as we know it, will die."

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Slashdot Could Give any Crazy Credit!

[garcia]

By these measures, Aubrey de Grey is indeed a prophet. The 42-year-old English biogerontologist has made his name by claiming that some people alive right now could live for 1,000 years or longer.
You can't determine that someone is a prophet until after the fact. See, right now he might be a "visionary" or a "futurist" or even a "fortune teller" but most likely he's just a "crock" or a "bullshit artist".

I claim that based on scientific technology available right now we will be able to solve all the world's problems in the future! See how easy that is? Now, if only I could get some article written about me and my observations of organs growing in trays (and not exactly explaining how all these endless transplants will work) I too can say we will all live for eternity (and bring with us all the damage populations of that size cause).

This wasn't even worth reading. Thanks for giving this guy more notoriety Slashdot.

Re:Slashdot Could Give any Crazy Credit!

[garcia]

In the meantime, perhaps you should check your facts better before posting such things.

Plenty of respected scientists are full of shit. Perhaps the article, which is the only linked information from the blurb and thus all we have, should have included some more factual evidence that this can all occur rather than just saying that because this guy says so, it is.

Starting off the article that he's a "prophet" and then continuing on with quotes like, "If that sounds a little vague, it is. Mr. de Grey is not saying he knows for certain how to fix these problems, only that these are the problems responsible for the physical breakdowns we experience as we grow older. Lick them, and you've licked aging, or so the thinking goes." Because, afterall, it is really vague and thus I'm skeptical.

Maybe you should have RTFA and let it explain it to you and then maybe you would understand why I think it's all a bunch of shit.

I get to live 1000 years?

[Odocoileus]

This is obviously a ploy of the creationists to postpone people from finding out the real truth.

Hurrah

[metamatic]

Death is dead, long live death!

Imagine a 900 year old Strom Thurmond staring cabbage-like into space as our artificially stupid computerized Republican overlords tell him how to vote.