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The Huge Entity: Forum - (Transhuman) Life Extension and The Seductive Power of Beards
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      CommentAuthorDanieru
    • CommentTimeMar 28th 2006 edited
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    The increase in life expectancy enjoyed by many societies is a triumph of modern science.

    Our understanding of the human body and how to repair it when it breaks down have continued to push "old age" into the distance - and researchers intend to keep pushing.

    But the claims made by Dr Aubrey de Grey, a scientist at the University of Cambridge, UK, that lifespan can be increased by over 1,000 years, have proven too much for some; and a dispute has now broken out within the gerontology community.

    The argument, which has been played out through academic journals, and most recently at a "life extension" conference, has culminated in the unusual step of a cash prize on offer for anyone who can disprove de Grey's science.

    - Link to full article
    More on the long bearded de Grey can be found here...

  2. Would you welcome a thousand year life-span?
  3. Is it possible?
  4. Is Grey's beard worse than his bite?
    • CommentAuthorwhat?
    • CommentTimeMar 31st 2006
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    Is what we call death really a metamorphosis? Who knows what we might become? I would like to be a REAL star one day. I'm getting bored, or boring, after a mere 50 years, I cant imagine how grumpy I'd be after a thousand.
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      CommentAuthorDanieru
    • CommentTimeApr 2nd 2006 edited
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    Here's Freeman Dyson's comment on this in a recent New Scientist article:
    I do not venture to predict what new scientific revolutions will emerge from a mastery of biotechnology. One of the worst things that I can imagine is that medical researchers will find a cure for death. After that, aged immortals will accumulate on this planet and there will be no more room for the young. The normal replacement of each generation by the next will come to an end, and progress in science will stop.

    - link to full article
    (sadly you'll need a new scientist subscription to read it)
    I tend to feel similarly about this. Life is all about change. When this stops occuring, what then of natural progress? Innovation? Evolution?

    Only rich, powerful nutters will inherit the Earth

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