Are you interested in living for 1,000 years?

bizgrower

11 years ago

I would like to. To be able to see everything I can.

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kenmichaels

11 years ago

I did not watch the video/

but hell yeah, I want to live for 1000 years .. minimum.

i really want to live forever .. I don't need super powers or god like
abilities.

I just want to see everything and understand everything before i disappear into " ??? "

and then if there is "other sentient beings with the ability to communicate "
I want to know everything about them too.

( all of them

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see .. i am not asking for much.
The short version .. I never .. ever want to die for any reason. ever

It is too sad i was born now, because i believe with in a few hundred years, people wont die any more.
they WILL live for thousands of years or more.

maybe I am a fool. But i really .. really do believe that.

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Sarevok

11 years ago

No.. I'm already bored with humanity.

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Jason Kanigan

11 years ago

The harshness of the critics' reviews on his book were surprising. Amazon shows his ideas to be polarizing: people love it or hate it. I hadn't heard of him before, so hearing his point of view was quite interesting.

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Kay King

11 years ago

He's a theoretician rather than a scientist - so when he holds forth on research and potential medical advances, it's not surprising he isn't taken seriously.

It's interesting theory but I wouldn't get too excited. de Grey has a B.A. degree and is the chief "science officer" of a nonprofit he is a partner in.

He blows off as irrelevant some things that are critical. How could world population be sustained if people lived that long? The level of medical intervention he suggests would be unaffordable except for the super rich.

That beard looks like things are nesting in it

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tagiscom

11 years ago

He's a theoretician rather than a scientist - so when he holds forth on research and potential medical advances, it's not surprising he isn't taken seriously.

It's interesting theory but I wouldn't get too excited. de Grey has a B.A. degree and is the chief "science officer" of a nonprofit he is a partner in.

He blows off as irrelevant some things that are critical. How could world population be sustained if people lived that long? The level of medical intervention he suggests would be unaffordable except for the super rich.

That beard looks like things are nesting in it

Nasty! LOL, but yeah, interesting talk, but the main thought in my head was, cut the damm beard off, give yourself a break!!!! :rolleyes:

I did not watch the video/

but hell yeah, I want to live for 1000 years .. minimum.

i really want to live forever .. I don't need super powers or god like
abilities.

I just want to see everything and understand everything before i disappear into " ??? "

and then if there is "other sentient beings with the ability to communicate "
I want to know everything about them too.

( all of them

)

see .. i am not asking for much.
The short version .. I never .. ever want to die for any reason. ever

It is too sad i was born now, because i believe with in a few hundred years, people wont die any more.
they WILL live for thousands of years or more.

maybe I am a fool. But i really .. really do believe that.

Yep, aliens most likely live for 1000 years or more, so space travel is an option, for the people who might get bored quickly!

And l doubt that it would be 1000 in your body, l suspect you could swap it for a better one, in a couple of hundred years, and swap it for one that lasts forever, android of some kind within 1000. Or maybe l have been watching Star Trek too often?

Shane

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ThomM 11 years ago

I'll get back to you on living 1,000 years after I've lived 100.
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Alexa Smith Banned 11 years ago

Originally Posted by Kay King

de Grey has a B.A. degree

In Oxford and Cambridge, all first degrees (even in purely scientific subjects) are called "B.A."

He also has a Ph.D., also from Cambridge, for which his subject-matter was mitochondrial DNA. ("Just saying"!). He may have some non-mainstream views, but he's by no means "unqualified".
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Michael Ten

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Kay King

He's a theoretician rather than a scientist - so when he holds forth on research and potential medical advances, it's not surprising he isn't taken seriously.

It's interesting theory but I wouldn't get too excited. de Grey has a B.A. degree and is the chief "science officer" of a nonprofit he is a partner in.

He blows off as irrelevant some things that are critical. How could world population be sustained if people lived that long? The level of medical intervention he suggests would be unaffordable except for the super rich.

That beard looks like things are nesting in it

Cambridge awarded Aubrey de Grey a PhD. Reporter 13/12/00: Congregation of the Regent House on 9 December 2000

Here is a link to The SENS Research Foundation's research advisory board. http://www.sens.org/about/leadership...advisory-board

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HeySal

11 years ago

I'm thinking on Kay's level with the sustainable population. The majority would have to die off first and very limited breeding would have to be allowed. If we could sustain at 3 bil, that would be incredible even with our present life spans. I think with what we know now - if we got rid of toxic chemicals and restored ecosystems, then lifted suppression on free, renewable, clean energy and medical cures we'd extend our lifespans a bit right there.

I'm not sure about a thousand - but even a three fold extension -- think of what you could learn in that amount of time! What you could see and do in that amount of time.

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Dan Riffle

11 years ago

Eh, they'd just raise the retirement age to 900. What's the point?

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ThomM 11 years ago

Originally Posted by Dan Riffle

Eh, they'd just raise the retirement age to 900. What's the point?

No they wouldn't Dan.
They'd raise it to 998
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- MikeAmbrosio 11 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Dan Riffle
  
  Eh, they'd just raise the retirement age to 900. What's the point?
  
  Originally Posted by ThomM
  
  No they wouldn't Dan.
  They'd raise it to 998
  
  You're both assuming there'd be retirement programs by then...
  
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  Kay King 11 years ago
  
  He also has a Ph.D., also from Cambridge, for which his subject-matter was mitochondrial DNA. ("Just saying"!).
  
  Interesting as I've never seen that mentioned and he doesn't use the title. I think if he were talking about a potential of a 150-200 year life span the level of disbelief would not be as high.
  
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  ThomM 11 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by MikeAmbrosio
  
  You're both assuming there'd be retirement programs by then...
  
  Yes I was being an ass uming
  
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ozzie2012

11 years ago

A funny thing happened to me on my way here 1000 years ago...

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Ephrils

11 years ago

I'd love to live for 1000 years. I'm getting my years of living as a bum out of the way right now so I can live as a rich man later on in my 1000 lifetime :p

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Horny Devil Banned 11 years ago

940 or so more years with the wife . . . no thanks.
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- MissTerraK 11 years ago
  
  You know, I really don't. The morality in this world has nose dived even since the fifties and I really don't want to see how low and depraved human beings will have become.
  
  That's my take on it anyway...
  
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  tagiscom 11 years ago
  
  I'd love to live for 1000 years. I'm getting my years of living as a bum out of the way right now so I can live as a rich man later on in my 1000 lifetime
  
  Hmmm, done the poor thing, a couple of lifetimes ago, so l am working on the rich man, part now! :rolleyes:
  
  Shudder to think about the woman on welfare and churning out kids to keep the gravy coming in would do about this?
  
  Probably see headlines like, "820 year old welfare recipient, with 300 children, shows no signs of stopping".
  
  I think that birthdays will need to be scrapped, most would keel over trying to blow out 1000 candles, or 800?
  
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Dennis Gaskill

11 years ago

Well, it would really depend on health. Most humans are pretty frail by the time they reach 100, I can't imagine what kind of condition one would be in at 10 times that age.

If my mind was still good, and I didn't need someone to change my diapers, then I suppose I'd consider it. I am really curious about death and what may lie beyond the veil, but I'm in no hurry to find out. I don't know if my curiosity could take a 1,000 year wait though.

Then there's what Terra said. If morality keeps going downhill as fast as it has in the last 50 years, I don't know if I'd want to see where that road takes us.

So, I don't know. Can I play it one day at a time?

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HeySal

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Dennis Gaskill

So, I don't know. Can I play it one day at a time?

Might as well - that's kinda how we're stuck anyhow.

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tagiscom

11 years ago

If my mind was still good, and I didn't need someone to change my diapers, then I suppose I'd consider it. I am really curious about death and what may lie beyond the veil, but I'm in no hurry to find out. I don't know if my curiosity could take a 1,000 year wait though.

Then there's what Terra said. If morality keeps going downhill as fast as it has in the last 50 years, I don't know if I'd want to see where that road takes us.

So, I don't know. Can I play it one day at a time?

Hmmm, in a few hundred years, unless it is buried, science will discover several or perhaps many dimensions above and below us, or ones vibrating at a higher rate than ours and lower. So a mesh of science and non-science will merge together.

From what l have heard on the internet grapevine, we can glimpse higher dimensions, with our science. Probably involving high energy in a small space, for a brief period!

As for morality, it may continue to decline, or politicians just aren't bothering to fix the political correctness, BS, because they know more positive things are on the horizon!

Or another way of putting it, the truth about space exploration, energy generation and related stuff.

Oil is worth, $100 trillion, (that is what is left in the ground)
so if a sociopath, with great wealth, power and control of the masses, makes a decision between, an old woman with respiratory problems, because she has to cook with fire, or making the next 10 million from oil revenue, and refueling his Learjet, there is no contest!

A handful of these a***** control the lot, but cracks are starting to appear, so l go with the very positive future in our lifetimes, what is happening now, is just showing us, that self governing isn't working!

Shane

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Michael Ten

11 years ago

I am glad that some of you like this idea. Here is some more information about it. Aubrey de Grey, who is speaking in that video, co-founded The SENS Foundation (SRF Home | SENS Research Foundation) and wrote the book Ending Aging (amazon.com/Ending-Aging-Rejuvenation-Breakthroughs-Lifetime/dp/0312367074/) with Michael Rae.

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socialentry

11 years ago

Yeah, ill take my chances for the 1000 year ride.

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Rick B

11 years ago

I'm just taking it one year at a time. I survived a heart attack in 1999. I survived colon cancer in 2005. I survived another heart attack in 2009. Now at 62 (in a few days) I'm in pretty good shape. Yearly checkups. Blood pressure and cholesterol drugs have actually opened up my arteries (as verified by an angiogram). Taking daily fish oil, multi-vitamins with anti-oxidants, and eating lots of veggies. Keeping my weight under control. No booze, no drugs. Learning something new every day to stave off alzheimers. Shooting for mid-eighties and who knows what modern medicine will come up with by then? People ususally guess my age as upper 40s. Life is good!

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Jreed

11 years ago

people would not breed anymore so population won't be a problem, if more people are needed they will just clone them.

could be nice you can clone your wife or husband to precise specifications.

But if you could live 1000 years would you really want to be married??? lol

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Claude Whitacre 11 years ago

Let's pretend that suddenly, everyone lived 1,000 years. and stayed in good health the entire time.

We would have to stop having children. Of course, we would still have accidents, suicides, murders...but children would be rare.

Investing would take on different problems. If you just save 10% of your income, and invest intelligently, in 800 years, you would own a country...maybe the whole planet. Everyone couldn't be super rich.

Education would suddenly be completely different.

What if someone were disabled? Would they get benefits for 1,000 years?
What if someone is mentally handicapped? Would someone take care of them for 1,000 years?

What would happen to religion? Any religion?

After 100 years, nearly everyone would have saved enough to retire, and live off the interest. Who would do the work?

How would it affect our evolution as a culture? Many old ideas stick with us, until the proponents die, and newer ideas take their place.

Would we want animals to live longer too? As long as us?

What about criminals? Would they get a life sentence? Who would want to pay for that?

If you were going to live 1,000 years, how would that affect memories? Would your brain keep regenerating cells? Would we lose memories? Keep them all? Become geniuses? Develop brain cancer?

I know that I'm not the same person at all that I was when I was 30 years old. Would we even be the same people at 500 years old?

What would a 500 year old person care about? find valuable? How would they treat other people? Would "Family" mean the same thing as now?
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serryjw

11 years ago

1000 years would be OK if I could keep my beloved pets for 300 years?

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tagiscom

11 years ago

What if someone were disabled? Would they get benefits for 1,000 years?
What if someone is mentally handicapped? Would someone take care of them for 1,000 years?

What would happen to religion? Any religion?

After 100 years, nearly everyone would have saved enough to retire, and live off the interest. Who would do the work?

How would it affect our evolution as a culture? Many old ideas stick with us, until the proponents die, and newer ideas take their place.

Would we want animals to live longer too? As long as us?

What about criminals? Would they get a life sentence? Who would want to pay for that?

If you were going to live 1,000 years, how would that affect memories? Would your brain keep regenerating cells? Would we lose memories? Keep them all? Become geniuses? Develop brain cancer?

I know that I'm not the same person at all that I was when I was 30 years old. Would we even be the same people at 500 years old?

What would a 500 year old person care about? find valuable? How would they treat other people? Would "Family" mean the same thing as now?

Yep, the entire system would need to be scrapped and a Star Trek type economy established, so everyone would do what they wanted and their basic needs taken care of!

And yeah, l know, drain diggers would do a runner, but you would be surprised how many people love digging drains!

As for memories, we would probably be a race of Doctor Who type, people, very intelligent, (some may learn 50 languages, etc). And by then Quantum PC,s will be commonplace; so a Chip the size of a grain of sand, could store all human knowledge. So storage probably isn't the main prob,.

I also suspect that human frailty, may occur in the last 100 years, but replacement parts should be available by then, etc.

Shane