The path to living ~200 years or even more comes, can't wait to see the next few world wars, maybe even the end!
I hope I can age back to the point where I can correct mistakes I've made.
But were they succesful to stop later, it or we all going to benedict cumberbuton it?
The anachronistic, inbred, entrenched elite will not only own everything, they will live forever.
This won't lead to immortality and it is pretty naive to think so.
That's what they want you to think..!
So what’s up with Bad Spelling rating thread’s topic for?
So Americans thinking their spelling is the only way, got it. What else is new.
what the fuck am I reading
I like to imagine it leading to "immortality" along the lines of "In Time", ie where the rich have all the "time" so they're basically immortal but they're too afraid to really leave their homes because they know they're just one stupid accident away from death.
But what about disease, disability, cancer etc. - things that can happen when even trying to avoid freak accidents. Reversing Ageing simply stops age from being a cause of death, but people will still be vulnerable to anything that life throws in it's way, whether that's a freak accident, a fire, diseases or virii, cancer etc. Sure, the rich will probably get their hands on this and have a jolly good time, but they sure as hell aren't going to be immortal
That's the point of what I posted.
Just imagine the kind of hell you'd condemn yourself to, believing yourself to be "immortal", but there's that lingering thought that knows that's not true, so you basically ostracize yourself from the outside world to prevent getting hurt, or sick.
They'd effectively be paying top-dollar to imprison themselves in their own deluded fantasy.
Your braincells slowly die everyday. At best you might look 20 when you die.
IMO even if you didn't live any longer, being able to live your whole life at a health relatively close to being 20 would be amazing
He must have meant benjamin button and confused him with benedict cumberbatch?
Brain cells have also been recently discovered to reproduce and grow in the brain, provided the brain is well used. But you are right insofar that brain cells die a lot, actually to the tune of about 1,000 every second.
Mistakes make us better, even if they usually cause irreparable emotional(or sometimes physical) damage. Assuming one can move past them, you are far better suited for future challenges if you've already recognized, and learned from your mistakes of the past.
Do my hairline pls.
You might be reversing age, but dying by an accident or someone murdering you is avoidable.
half this thread reads like i'm having a stroke
I'm not sure how folks can look at a headline this amazing, promising potential for something amazing in the future, and still immediately focus on the worst possible outcome.
Just give me a strong internet connection, a good pc, facepunch and netflix and I can be with you guys
FOREVER
Britain likes to make things more complicated for some reason. Here, practise is verb and practice is noun, whereas America just thought fuck that and simplified it. American spellings do make certain sentences ambiguous sometimes, but I sorta get why they do it.
Russian propaganda. Do you think it's a coincidence that Cumberbatch played Julian Assange?
In terms of the article itself, I read about this exact process a few months ago before any tests on human cells, and it has genuinely shown a great deal of promise. It's early days, but some people have supposedly taken it unofficially and noticed things like senescent skin on their elbows becoming less rough, etc. Of course, with studies like this, it's extremely important to remain highly sceptical until human trials.
Something like this being used widespread would also halt evolution, so we need to narrow down CRISPR cas9 before an anti-ageing solution is fortuitous. It also won't prevent tumours forming, although it will make them less likely to occur in the first place too if it bears fruit.
The vast majority of scientific studies never lead anywhere, but this is past one of the major hurdles and it should at least command some respect.
Dying of old age is caused by many, many different factors and we need to solve each one of them separately if we want to get even close to immortality
Although there's not strictly such a thing as dying of old age, there also kinda is too. Each time our cells divide, the DNA gets chopped from our telomeres, and there's only so much they can be chopped before there's no room left, so then the body stops dividing the cell, hence wrinkly skin and worse cardiac tissue, amongst other things.
Pleeeeease enter clinical trials before my mom's Alzheimer's kicks in.
Granted, that's a good twenty years off, but still.
I feel like that's honestly the limit we should reach and never venture beyond
immortality would pose too many problems, demographic and resource-distribution wise
If you reversed aging, wouldn't you still have the risk of running into some kind of cancer or something similarly life ending at some point during your extended life? I feel like it would be a really nice thing to have but also a long way from immortality.
Living longer means constantly increasing chance to get some form of cancer / illness during your lifetime
In fact we'll probably discover new illnesses as a result of people living long enough to fall sick to them.
Cancer itself is kind of a modern disease since a few hundred years ago you were much more likely to die to something else first.
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