Science Finds Fountain of Youth Brain Region That Slows Down Aging
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[QUOTE=Riller;40522550]The implications here creep me out. Mostly because operations cost money; and if this comes out like that, this'd mean we'd quite literally put a price on human life.[/QUOTE]
We already do everywhere that we have private medical care.
[QUOTE=Computrix;40522549]To prevent overpopulation & resource shortages probably.
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That makes no sense at all.
[QUOTE=Pierrewithahat;40522985]The carrying capacity for Earth with current technology is 10 billion people, you couldn't be more of a slack jawed neckbeard if you tried.
Then on top of that 10 billion you could probably add on a few more with more cities, high rise buildings, desalination plants, renewable power and vertical farms. That's not to mention more efficient production and building techniques thanks to 3D printers.[/QUOTE]
and hey, if it gets super bad we could always just set up some colonies on other planets. i mean, it's not like we'll have mastered aging, renewable power, vertical farms and 3D printing but still have the same old shitty space travel that could barely get us to the moon. maybe i'm being unrealistic, but it's not like it'll get that bad anyway.
[QUOTE=Cone;40523642]and hey, if it gets super bad we could always just set up some colonies on other planets. i mean, it's not like we'll have mastered aging, renewable power, vertical farms and 3D printing but still have the same old shitty space travel that could barely get us to the moon. maybe i'm being unrealistic, but it's not like it'll get that bad anyway.[/QUOTE]
The only way it's going to get that bad is if everyone decides tomorrow that they desperately need 10 kids.
Oh thank god.
Get it? :V
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thank god
[B]god[/B]
"[B]Science[/B] Finds Fountain of Youth Brain Region That Slows Down Aging"
rip i tried
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Would be cool if we could reverse aging.
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[QUOTE=Desuh;40523797]Would be cool if we could reverse aging.
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no it'd be fucking weird
[QUOTE=johnsten;40523880]no it'd be fucking weird[/QUOTE]
Not if you are 60 or 80 and look like a dried fruit. Also pedophiles could have sex legally with adults with childrens bodies.
I'm pretty convinced mine is missing, I'm 21 but look about 16.
If this leads to longer youth, It might needs a few years. Still, given my low age right now, I still would be happy to be a 40 year old 150 year old
[QUOTE=TorashVD;40522921]I hope they make such an operation as expensive as possible. Why should I want millions of people making 8 in their normal lifespan which will live again really long and produce even moar kids. This would be a real problem, we can't even handle 7 Billions people wirh a normal lifespan.[/QUOTE]
You know you would never get this right? You'd probably be one of the last people on the list.
Everyone here is talking about evolution as if it has a plan. Evolution is not a god, it can't know what's going to happen. So it can't have this grand plan where evolution decides for the greater good that you must die. Once you get into that, you need to make a transition into talking about the possibility of God, because evolution is not a being and it can't be omniscient.
This is very cool, but I seriously doubt the governments would ever let us make use of any products that come to fruition because of this. Nobody wants an over-populated country, especially the governments.
[QUOTE='[CWG]RustySpannerz;40524124']Everyone here is talking about evolution as if it has a plan. Evolution is not a god, it can't know what's going to happen. So it can't have this grand plan where evolution decides for the greater good that you must die. Once you get into that, you need to make a transition into talking about the possibility of God, because evolution is not a being and it can't be omniscient.[/QUOTE]
No ones suggesting directed evolution dude.
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[QUOTE=Tophat;40524136]This is very cool, but I seriously doubt the governments would ever let us make use of any products that come to fruition because of this. Nobody wants an over-populated country, especially the governments.[/QUOTE]
Yeah I'm sure they'll want to get rid of a work force that never ages and shovels tax money at them.
[QUOTE=Desuh;40523894]Also pedophiles could have sex legally with adults with childrens bodies.[/QUOTE]
wtf man
I thought you aged because eveytime your cells die and get replaced, the replacement is slightly worse.
[QUOTE='[CWG]RustySpannerz;40524124']Everyone here is talking about evolution as if it has a plan. Evolution is not a god, it can't know what's going to happen. So it can't have this grand plan where evolution decides for the greater good that you must die. Once you get into that, you need to make a transition into talking about the possibility of God, because evolution is not a being and it can't be omniscient.[/QUOTE]
I suppose organisms that did not have a programmed death mechanism died out due to their deteriorating DNA before anything could become of them?
If this becomes a commercial treatment, we'll probably have people living way longer and thus a higher overall population. Still, I wouldn't say no to a longer life, especially considering what might lie beyond, or more appropriately what mightn't.
this is super awesome and i hope something becomes of it
i wanna live forever
I hope this becomes reality, being young untill the day i die would be sweeet.
sure death is scary but half the time its not even my mortality that i dwell on, but the fact ill end up old and crippled one day.
Let's dance in style, lets dance for a while
Heaven can wait we're only watching the skies
Hoping for the best but expecting the worst
Are you going to drop the bomb or not?
Let us die young or let us live forever
We don't have the power but we never say never
Sitting in a sandpit, life is a short trip
The music's for the sad men
Can you imagine when this race is won
Turn our golden faces into the sun
Praising our leaders we're getting in tune
The music's played by the madman
Forever young, I want to be forever young.
Do you really want to live forever, forever and ever.
[QUOTE=Pierrewithahat;40522804]Evolution doesn't require death from old age.[/QUOTE]
Indirectly it does. Directly, no, it doesn't care, but it requires new births. Faster generational turnover = faster evolution.
A biologically immortal species wouldn't have the need to reproduce very much so evolution would basically be at a standstill. Maybe for smaller prey animals it'd work fine but for something like humans, immortality would basically stop evolution.
What if they sterilized people who got the procedure, thus solving overpopulation forever?
[QUOTE=Riller;40522574]Are you from like; Zimbabwe or some shit? Where do people die when they're 50?[/QUOTE]
The life expectancy in my town is 54
Death doesn't scare me at all really, just annoys me. My main concern with it is that if I die I won't learn the trillions of secrets the universe holds, such a mysterious world that I won't get to explore is what bothers me about death. This is why I would love to have immortality, something that I can see people discovering how to achieve it before I die, which makes me happy.
[QUOTE=shian;40522479][url]http://www.livescience.com/29230-aging-controlled-by-brain.html[/url]
Fuck yeah I can be 105 years old in the future and still look like a 20 year old[/QUOTE]
I'm pretty sure you would look old as fuck but your brain works as if you were younger.
[QUOTE=Pierrewithahat;40522985]The carrying capacity for Earth with current technology is 10 billion people, you couldn't be more of a slack jawed neckbeard if you tried.
Then on top of that 10 billion you could probably add on a few more with more cities, high rise buildings, desalination plants, renewable power and vertical farms. That's not to mention more efficient production and building techniques thanks to 3D printers.[/QUOTE]
[I]With current technology.[/I]
The current "optimistic" figures for maximum population capacity are all reliant on current oil production figures (or old fiogures), which are going to decline savagely over the next 40 years. They also don't take into account issues like topsoil depletion, topsoil erosion, climate change, and human-caused droughts. They just look at what is the norm now and say "well we can have 10 billion people" which obviously is not going to be the case.
While technological development is very useful and can improve quality of life, it can't necessarily increase quantity of life. The scale of farming we utilize today is utterly reliant on petroleum infrastructure, but you can already see drastically rising food prices because farming and shipping food is becoming exceedingly expensive.
All down to earth figures say the current limit is 3 billion people or less, not 10 billion. Frankly I'm not sure where you got your figures; that's probably an old estimate.
I knew people would bring up this stupid "b-b-but overpopulation" bullshit
[QUOTE=AJisAwesome15;40525345]I knew people would bring up this stupid "b-b-but overpopulation" bullshit[/QUOTE]
"I hate it when people bring up the most serious issue pertaining to this topic of discussion"
[QUOTE=Riller;40522550]The implications here creep me out. Mostly because operations cost money; and if this comes out like that, this'd mean we'd quite literally put a price on human life.[/QUOTE]
as if we don't already, you can buy and sell humans and hire people to kill people, there is quite literally a price on human life already.
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