I was just reading an article about a way life expectancy could be extended enormously, to well over 1000 years in humans.

With a way to almost cure ageing being theorised, would you like it to be done for you? Would you like your aging process to be reduced so that you could live until you were 3000 years old? What would you do with all that time on your hands?

I think this would certainly lead to the earth being way overcrowded, so it would have to be done selectively if it works. But it's really an interesting topic

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4003063.stm

I saw this on Richard and Judy about 2 years ago, I wouldn't like to live 3000 years, because it would be really boring.

lol most of the people would suicide before reaching that age, as saralk said it would be too boring it would reach a point where you would have no objective in your life.

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Originally posted by paperless
lol most of the people would suicide before reaching that age, as saralk said it would be too boring it would reach a point where you would have no objective in your life.

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Imagine if Einstein had lived to be 3000 years old and had the knowledge we had today...

Not a chance, They'd raise the drinking and voting ages again....

lol all the possibilities of prolonging human life and wj brings up booze

I think it's crazy, we would get beond over crowding, it's messing with nature, we are meant to die, simple as, why fight it.

"This place aint big enough for the both of us"

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Originally posted by wj
They'd raise the drinking and voting ages again....

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it wud suck..3000 years =/
be cool to see where does this world go but nah, i'd be able to push maybe 1000 years and then just *beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep*

Once poor, always poor. Imagine people live in the sewler pit for 3000 years... weigh to long, the world would get crowded

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Originally posted by MenthiX
Put that time in cures for cancer and aids and let everybody die a natural cause.

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now days i know much people who have cancer. They better search on that. Chemo and radiation is't all of the good...

I think we should allow that but just when we had colonized new planets.

There wouldnt be enough room here.

Well maybe it could because as the time goes less children are born and population tends to go older people now dont ahve enough time to have children.

Hum.. procreating could be outlawed


Im afraid because we are not prepared for it and i dont want to see Bill Gates controlling the world.

men will have 1000 of woman and girls will have 1000 of children

imagine it, 100year olds can barely move, u'd just be a stiff in a hovering chair

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Originally posted by spokes
imagine it, 100year olds can barely move, u'd just be a stiff in a [del]rockin[/del] hovering chair

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Originally posted by Anubis
With a way to almost cure ageing being theorised

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well by atleast 110 years old ur purpose in life should be fulfilled and it wouldnt be necessary to keep living.

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Originally posted by Leo
There are already a lot of them trying to find a cure for cancer and all that.

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I don't know what I'd want.  I don't wanna die extremely old, or old looking or physically old.

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Originally posted by MenthiX
I'm sure of that, but even if it's just one person researching eternal live things... we already know that very long living people isn't gonna bring much good to the world anyway.

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me at 300 years old "i remember when this was said in a forum of msgplus i think it was called, ahhh the internet, it was all godd untill extraterrestral life took it over "...

i dont it would be good like every 1000 years there is always massive extintion, either something big hits the earth, wars, humans detroy the enviorment (which is already happening)..everythig ends, everytime you breath you get older, just enjoy life as it is meant to be, everything has an end even you and the world.

i read bout this in the newspaper two days back...i really dont believe its possible or even if its possible, its not right...we are playing with the rules of nature!

You cant live forever.

Eventually the laws of probability catch up with you and you'll die in an accident; lightning strike; get hit by a meteor etc etc etc

yes but it would be pretty cool, i can say i lived throuh two millenia and change my signature phrase to 'Come drink from my fountain of knowledge' lol

I'm afraid 18 years of live is getting even too long and tormenting for me...

Well, we can do a lot of things if we can die at 1000 years old. I must say that technology will advance and everything will be out of control...like war, pollution, whatever :\

Could be used on certain animal species that are in danger of extinction.

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Originally posted by Anubis
I think this would certainly lead to the earth being way overcrowded, so it would have to be done selectively if it works. But it's really an interesting topic

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4003063.stm

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PAtchou would be able to keep making messenger plus!

uhm but the earth is going to end in about a million years anyway...
scientifically the zone which can sustain life is moving and so we will eventually explode