Live to be 1000 years young ?

[humble3d]

Live to be 1,000 years young ??

Taxes for 1,000 years ??

Researchers believe a biological revolution enabling humans to experience everlasting youthfulness is coming...

IT is likely the first person who will live to be 1,000 years old is already alive today.

This is according to a growing regiment of researchers who believe a biological revolution enabling humans to experience everlasting youthfulness is just around the corner.

At the epicentre of the research is Aubrey de Grey — a Cambridge gerontologist and co-founder or the California-based Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence (SENS) Research Foundation.

“The first thing I want to do is get rid of the use of this word immortality, because it’s enormously damaging, it is not just wrong, it is damaging,” he told Motherboard.

“It means zero risk of death from any cause — whereas I just work on one particular cause of death, namely ageing.”

Mr de Grey said his research aims to undo the damage done by the wear and tear of life, as opposed to stopping the ageing process altogether.

“If we ask the question: ‘Has the person been born who will be able to escape the ill health of old age indefinitely?’ Then I would say the chances of that are very high,” he said.

“Probably about 80 per cent.”

To achieve longevity, de Grey is developing a therapy to kill cells that have lost the ability to divide, allowing healthy cells to multiply and replenish the tissue.

“The therapies that we are working on at the moment are not going to be perfect,” he said.

“These therapies are going to be good enough to take middle age people, say people aged 60, and rejuvenate them thoroughly enough so they won’t be biologically 60 again until they are chronologically 90.

“That means we have essentially bought 30 years of time to figure out how to re-rejuvenate them when they are chronologically 90 so they won’t be biologically 60 for a third time until they are 120 or 150.

“I believe that 30 years is going to be very easily enough time to do that.”

Mr de Grey explained his technique for achieving eternal youthfulness is far more likely to be developed before the theories explored by other gerontologist that focus on preventing the metabolism from causing damage to the body.

“We will be able to keep one step ahead of the problem and keep rejuvenating the same people as long as we like,” he said

“The big breakthrough in terms of publicity will be when we can take middle aged mice in the laboratory and rejuvenate them.

“Once we can do it for mice, people are going to know that it’s only a matter of time before we can do it for human beings.

“So that’s where I want to get to and I think we have a fair chance of getting there in six to eight years from now.”

http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/researchers-believe-a-biological-revolution-enabling-humans-to-experience-everlasting-youthfulness-is-coming/story-fnpjxnqt-1227304902553

[dMog]

if that time ever comes the total population of the world be just a few thousand people... and not one of them would have what today we call a soul :unsure:

[CODYQX4]

if that time ever comes the total population of the world be just a few thousand people... and not one of them would have what today we call a soul :unsure:

1000 years is a long time for someone to learn how to make their own nukes and just blow everything up.

[smallhagrid]

I, personally, think that around 70 is quite enough, thanks.

That is about 10 more years for me and even that may be a stretch.

[Fallon]

A new body design would also redesign our existence.

Eternal life seems impossible as part of a universe ruled by entropy, but if life could move from the planet, that would be interesting.

Thirty years will get us nowhere.

Fate of the Universe
Does evolution run counter to entropy?

[CODYQX4]

A new body design would also redesign our existence.

Eternal life seems impossible as part of a universe ruled by entropy, but if life could move from the planet, that would be interesting.

Thirty years will get us nowhere.

Fate of the Universe

Does evolution run counter to entropy?

Removing our natural expiration date, and being immortal are two different things entirely.

Not shriveling up and dying and rotting by 70-100 is likely possible. Being able to survive a bullet to the head, being burned, or an asteroid strike, well that's beyond us for as far as I can see.

I wouldn't mind living longer if my mind and joints don't go and I don't look 1000 years old. Living that long and not increasing the quality of life and removing the aging process just sounds like unimaginable suffering though. 900+ years in a nursing home? Please shoot me instead.