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What Happens When the Average Lifespan is 150 Years?
First time accepted submitter Macgrrl writes "It was reported today in The Age newspaper that scientists believe they will have a drug within the next 5-10 years that will extend the average human lifespan to 150 years. Given the retirement age is 65, that would give you an extra 85 years, meaning you would probably have to extend the average working life to 100 or 120 years to prevent the economy becoming totally unbalanced and pensions running out. That assumes that the life extension is all 'good years', and not a prolonged period of dementia and physical decline. Would you want to live to 150? What do you see as being the most likely issues and what do you think you would do with all the extra years?"
Don't read this... it is a curse...
In 2005, a little boy named Tim was playing in his front yard. After a few minutes of playing, Tim noticed that a large toy clown had appeared and was floating in the middle of the front yard. It had white skin, a striped shirt with many colors present on it, large, goofy looking hands with white gloves on them, huge feet with large brown shoes, a big, red round nose, and poofy red hair.
The clown was grinning evilly at Tim, who was very noticeably frightened at this strange occurrence. Tim somehow managed to shake off his fear, slowly get up, and then run down the sidewalk to get away from the toy clown. However, Tim's efforts proved to be futile when the clown spread out the palms of both of his hands, placed them in front of his body with one hand behind the other, and then began shooting giant legos out of his hands. The legos homed in on Tim's bootyass, went right through his pants and underwear, and finally reached his bootyasscheekcrackhole! Afterwards, they began spinning around on Tim's bootyasscheekcrackhole, inflicting tremendous amounts of tickle upon his bootyass!
The legos then vanished, giving Tim a few moments of relief (still, after experiencing such a terrifying thing, he is only a shell of what he once was). However, the clown was not finished yet! After a few moments, the clown said, in an evil voice, "I wanna go... you know where!" and seemingly vanished. Tim, however, knew exactly where the clown was: between his bootyasscheek johnson ultimatum supremacies! The clown, facing Tim's bootyasscheekcrackhole, put both of his hands together (with his fingers between one another), and whammed Tim's bootyasscheekcrackhole three whole times! The previous tickle paled in comparison to this tickle!
Now that you have read this (even a single word of it), the toy clown will shoot large amounts of his legos out of his hands and they will spin around on your bootyasscheekcrackhole, and major amounts of tickle will be inflicted upon it! To prevent this from happening, copy and paste this entire comment and then repost it as a comment three times.
I think I would spend the next 165 years practising addition
or your spelling
" food and other resources will become scarce,"
why? are you assuming that the bulk of the population will still be retarded and have kids like rabbits? Honestly, when are we going to get pas the stupidity of religion and embrace the fact that you can have sex without making babies?
Birth Control people, it's not a new invention..
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
The people who think like those at Occupy Whatever would be protesting that the old folks aren't dying fast enough and that they are entitled to the jobs and property of anyone over 80.
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
And he's probably at some Occupy love in.
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.