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Why People Don't Live Past 114
kkleiner writes "Average life expectancy has nearly doubled in developed countries over the 20th century. But a puzzling part to the equation has emerged. While humans are in fact living longer lives on average, the oldest age that the oldest people reach seems to be stubbornly and oddly precisely cemented right at 114. What will it take for humans to live beyond this limit?"
Boring, wake me up when there's begetting and pause it for me if you can see tits.
is 42. And 114 is 42 backwards if you add the 1's together. The opposite of life is death - metaphysically speaking of course.
Look a bunny!
what?
So he owes us each six years? Can I choose which ones? I want 21-27 again. Thanks.
You're just trying to obstruct science and medicine. Don't let that fact get in the way of an insightful /. post. Hey guys, don't get distracted, back to talking about 114. Frankly we should be ashamed of letting anyone live that long. Humans are a disease. They should all be killed on sight so our planet doesn't get destroyed by those greedy parasites.
The emphasis is mine.
No, it's 5% tax
You first. Don't worry, the rest will be right behind you. laughing.
MMO Quests are like orgasms:
You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
/dev/world is full - please kill yourself or anyone you can
I'm betting there is some warranty clause that kicks in at 115.
So what has the non-rigid dirigible got to do with it?
Lifespans gradually decreased post-flood.
It is a little known fact that Methuselah exploited the life span mechanics of the Real Life MMO. That and other bugs, hackers, gimmicks, etc. got so bad that God had to nearly completely revamp the game. The new mechanics were firmly put in place after The Flood patch.
by Anonymous Coward: I, for one, welcome the shift from car analogies to pizza analogies. um.. overlords?
Well according to this post http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/02/15/2338229/scientists-study-how-little-exercise-you-need?utm_source=feedburnerGoogle+UK&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot+(Slashdot)&utm_content=Google+UK earlier today. A person's maximum heart rate can be calculated: "very roughly, by subtracting our age from 220".
From these two 'facts' that I have learnt today I conclude that once your maximum heart rate drops to 106 - you die.
But if you have a Christian loyalty card (sold at participating Churches), the tax is rebated with eternal afterlife! What a bargain.
And the Lord sayeth, "sucketh the horse's cocketh, and drink the milk of the stallion. Feel now, the stallion's fruits, roll them around in your hands. You shalleth be granteth eternal life"
-- Neuteronomy 69:420
So that's why no one is granted eternal life.
Simple: the Matrix has a 4 Yotta bytes limitation for any human memory.
Each lived day stores 150 Peta bytes of sense information in short term memory, which quickly decays in 100 Peta bytes for long term memory (of lot of which is kept for dreams and feelings, only 3% is used by conscience simulation).
This storage limit translates into 114,9 years of life simulation.
The earth must have rotated faster around the sun 6000 years ago. I guess the earth was more streamlined when it was still flat.
Don't know about you, but I would like to see a mid twenties Sigourney Weaver battle alien monsters. Not grandma. What's she going to do anyway? Stab it with her knitting needles? Make it tea? Relive stories of her neighbors dog 70 years ago?
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
Gorramn legacy support...
'Don't worry' said the trees when they saw the axe coming, 'The handle is one of us.'
Challenge excepted. Try base 1+10.908712114635714i
I always liked the part where the dude (Lot) is raped by his daughters in a drunken incesty threeway. There's some hot XXX action in that there bible book.
In the beginning, there was nothingness.
Then he brought something from nothingness.
Then he brought order from the chaos.
And he looked upon it, and saw that it was good.
Serious? Seriousness is well above my pay grade.
that would be 1/2 of leviticus, and if you are not Baptist, the songs of solomon are good old bible porn.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
Awesome... I guess I'm going to live for ever then... ... and I was just doing it for fun- didn't even know about that passage in the bible.
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
He traded immortality for sex. Pretty much every man would do this if given the choice.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
and he did... Adam got married.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
That's a little too Torchwood for me.
I make a reasonable middle-class wage by going to work and not spamming blogs with scams.
You are getting ripped off! Demand the full 1024 moons that you thought you were getting!
This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
Maybe he doesn't have a job, you insensitive clod.
There is no right to feel safe thru security vaudeville at the expense of everyone's freedom, privacy and tax money.
Or Eze 23:20, if you swing the other way.
:>
The chances of a woman on slashdot seem slim
Yes, because god used a shareware version of Genome Creator.
"It's such a fine line between stupid and clever" -- David St. Hubbins, Spinal Tap
> he traded immortality for the knowledge of good and evil. Essentially for a loss of innocence. Pretty crappy trade if you ask me.
You think that's bad? The Highlander fought and beat every other immortal to gain "the prize". What was "the prize" you ask? He lost his immortality and gained mind-reading. That's like picking the goat behind door number 3.
- For the complete works of Shakespeare: cat
But "with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like one day" (2 Peter 3:8).
Very similar to sitting in history class.
The movie will, of course, be a disappointment.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
[shakes fist at moon]
Curse you!!!!!!
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
It has nothing to do with support. It was reasoned that humans could develop proper emotional responses if they were left to live beyond 120, so a limiting factor was built in.
Geeks are so full of shit that "beating the crap out of them" takes a whole new meaning.
..."must have 435 years of experience with C++, Objective-C and XML. At LEAST 145 years of scripting and linux experience...." "... please forward your resume with work history, titles, salaries and referrals "
A Man said to god "What's a million years to you?"
God said "A second."
Then the man said to god "what's a million dollars to you?"
God said "A penny."
So the man said to god, "Would you give me a penny?"
God said "Of course I will. Just a second..."
Mary was no virgin; Jesus was just a man; it's a horrible tale about deception, greed and lust for power; the taking advantage of people's gullibility, fear and inability to think critically. Jesus catches out Judas using GPS, buttonhole cameras, and bribed Roman constabulary. Three stars; needed more CGI, and story seems at least partially cribbed from the Egyptian Book of the Dead [a Warner Bros. title.]
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
But returns as a zombie. I heard there's a lot of flesh and blood eating.
I love that post apocalyptic stuff.