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Humans Could Live up to 150 Years, New Research Suggests

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Re: Humans Could Live up to 150 Years, New Research Suggests

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Post by melling »

nscalf wrote: post #3

Last weeks article was 130. Clearly take this all with a grain of salt, and realize that bioengineering is having an explosion that will redefine everything we think about medicine and the human body.

Sure, it’s just a number.

The point is that if we made the effort, there’s likely easy things we can do to extend life beyond 100.

Studying Blue Zones, for example

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Zone

We really haven’t made an effort to study aging.

Why do some people live well into their 90’s and appear to be in good health?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Van_Dyke

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Post by HDMI_Cable »

Aperocky wrote: post #2

That's why the fundamental solution to both the ageing problem and space exploration is not biological. Humans are fundamentally adapted to live/reproduce on the oxidizing and wet environment on Earth. Rather than bring out a mini Earth environ each time we go to space, we should start thinking about how we can just bring out our mind. It would be much more sustainable in the long run, maybe even on Earth itself.

Why do we even need to colonize space anyways? It's not like overpopulation is going to be a problem anymore, and someday in the future, we'll be able to solve problems like environmental degredation and climate change. There's just not any benefit to exploring space. Besides asteroid mining (which can be done with robots), there's not much up there worth our time, except scientific research.

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Post by k__ »

codegeek wrote: post #4

I always think about the scenario that I have outlived everyone I ever knew. Not sure if that is a good thing necessarily. I wonder how many new people you can meet or make friends after say 80 especially if you are not very healthy.

I'm only 35 and besides my family I don't have much to do with most of the people I met in my life.

Some died, some simply moved away, or I moved away.

I wouldn't expect outliving my friends to be much different.

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Post by melling »

mgh2 wrote: post #11

Then the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; nevertheless his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.” -Genesis 6:3

120 years would be a great start.

Imagine the world 120 years ago in 1900. The airplane hadn’t been invented. Cars were still a novelty. Special Relativity hadn’t been discovered.

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Post by meh99 »

marcodiego wrote: post #9
nscalf wrote: post #3

Last weeks article was 130. Clearly take this all with a grain of salt, and realize that bioengineering is having an explosion that will redefine everything we think about medicine and the human body.

I think the biggest step will come once we start transplanting organs from clones of ourselves. Apart from traumatic or infectious diseases, being able to replace most vital organs would extend our lives to the last remaining non-transplant-able organ.

Transplant medicine is going to seem like archaic nonsense in the future.

We’ll just consume the chemical cocktails that normalize us: https://youtu.be/RjD1aLm4Thg

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