IT is likely the first person who will live to be 1,000yo is already alive today

[Wilikon]

Aubrey de Grey

[...]

To achieve longevity, de Grey is developing a therapy to kill cells that have lost the ability to divide, allowing healthy cells to multiply and replenish the tissue.

“The therapies that we are working on at the moment are not going to be perfect,” he said.

“These therapies are going to be good enough to take middle age people, say people aged 60, and rejuvenate them thoroughly enough so they won’t be biologically 60 again until they are chronologically 90.

“That means we have essentially bought 30 years of time to figure out how to re-rejuvenate them when they are chronologically 90 so they won’t be biologically 60 for a third time until they are 120 or 150.

“I believe that 30 years is going to be very easily enough time to do that.”

Mr de Grey explained his technique for achieving eternal youthfulness is far more likely to be developed before the theories explored by other gerontologist that focus on preventing the metabolism from causing damage to the body.

“We will be able to keep one step ahead of the problem and keep rejuvenating the same people as long as we like,” he said
“The big breakthrough in terms of publicity will be when we can take middle aged mice in the laboratory and rejuvenate them.

“Once we can do it for mice, people are going to know that it’s only a matter of time before we can do it for human beings.
“So that’s where I want to get to and I think we have a fair chance of getting there in six to eight years from now.”


http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/researchers-believe-a-biological-revolution-enabling-humans-to-experience-everlasting-youthfulness-is-coming/story-fnpjxnqt-1227304902553

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[BADecker]

Well the topic title is true. Jesus was raised from death almost 2,000 years ago, and He is still alive today... just not on planet earth physically.

[Lethn]

That would be fantastic if it's true, especially if it has none of the drawbacks a lot of ideas to do with long life have.

[BADecker]

TA-65. Telomerase.   

[Mike Christ]

I can imagine the outrage this would cause; given limited resources in a finite universe, coupled with the limits of time and pretty much universal demand, and the difference between rich and poor...yeah, that's a movie idea if I ever heard one, did someone make it yet?

[lucasjkr]

Longevity just for the sake of it is unappealing. Our bodies age, nothing to stop that. Have you seen a 90 or 100 year old? Would you want to live 9 times longer? Even so, people aren't always so adaptable. You see older people already "lost" with tech, mainstream culture, etc, as they're in the mindset they were in decades ago. Imagine if those people (who are, likely, most of us too) lived a thousand years but we're stuck in their ways from centuries earlier.

Besides which, the chances of one reaching 120 are nearly minuscule. Till we see more reaching that plateau and exceeding it, why should we think this generation will wildly exceed it?

[Wilikon]

That would be fantastic if it's true, especially if it has none of the drawbacks a lot of ideas to do with long life have.

Not sure if you want a Wilikon continually posting new threads for the next 1000 years though...


 

[BADecker]

Longevity just for the sake of it is unappealing. Our bodies age, nothing to stop that. Have you seen a 90 or 100 year old? Would you want to live 9 times longer? Even so, people aren't always so adaptable. You see older people already "lost" with tech, mainstream culture, etc, as they're in the mindset they were in decades ago. Imagine if those people (who are, likely, most of us too) lived a thousand years but we're stuck in their ways from centuries earlier.

Besides which, the chances of one reaching 120 are nearly minuscule. Till we see more reaching that plateau and exceeding it, why should we think this generation will wildly exceed it?

The only way a person can live to a thousand is if he is healthy. That's the idea that de Grey is putting forward.

Since people don't want to die - I mean, just look at all the people trying to stay alive in every way they can - why not stay alive if you can do it in a healthy and happy way?

The only thing wrong is that picture of de Grey. It is self-contradictory that he should use hair coloring to keep out "de grey."

 

[BADecker]

That would be fantastic if it's true, especially if it has none of the drawbacks a lot of ideas to do with long life have.

Not sure if you want a Wilikon continually posting new threads for the next 1000 years though...


 

Think of all the little Wilikons there will be running around by then.   

[redsn0w]

Interesting article, but I think get old is a part of the life so why 'destroy' or cancel it?

[BADecker]

Interesting article, but I think get old is a part of the life so why 'destroy' or cancel it?

It will be the peer pressure. Even if you want to get old and die, your friends will talk you out of it.

 

[Lethn]

That would be fantastic if it's true, especially if it has none of the drawbacks a lot of ideas to do with long life have.

Not sure if you want a Wilikon continually posting new threads for the next 1000 years though...


 

LOL! Meh, if they get annoying there's always the ignore list like with everything, I expect I'd be just as bad and be annoying religious people for the next several hundred years if this really works.

[waterpile]

Interesting article, but I think get old is a part of the life so why 'destroy' or cancel it?

It will be the peer pressure. Even if you want to get old and die, your friends will talk you out of it.

 

IMO this kind of stuff are for super rich people.

[Okurkabinladin]

I can imagine the outrage this would cause; given limited resources in a finite universe, coupled with the limits of time and pretty much universal demand, and the difference between rich and poor...yeah, that's a movie idea if I ever heard one, did someone make it yet?

Either United Nations can adopt one child policy or keep the cost of therapy so high, that lower 99% cant afford it. Problem solved.

[redsn0w]

Interesting article, but I think get old is a part of the life so why 'destroy' or cancel it?

It will be the peer pressure. Even if you want to get old and die, your friends will talk you out of it.

 

IMO this kind of stuff are for super rich people.

Obviously, how can a poor/medium person pay this kind of 'cure'? Only the person rich that don't want to get old will pay for the 'experimentation'.

[Hamuki]

Am I the only one that thinks if it gets possible to live for 1000 years...
Then we will not only over populate earth faster.. But we will ruin our plantet completely within the next 200 years max.

[Elwar]

Interesting article, but I think get old is a part of the life so why 'destroy' or cancel it?

It will be the peer pressure. Even if you want to get old and die, your friends will talk you out of it.

 

IMO this kind of stuff are for super rich people.

Like those car phones.

[Elwar]

Am I the only one that thinks if it gets possible to live for 1000 years...
Then we will not only over populate earth faster.. But we will ruin our plantet completely within the next 200 years max.

So you are resigned to the idea that Earth land is the last explored place to live in the universe?

[SebastianJu]

Ask them to call you first before they deliver.

[erikalui]

It would be a good experiment for those who have the money to invest in this. I don't know who has lived for 150 years and as per wikipedia, the longest living human was 122 years. Basically, 70-80 years defines a normal person's age and they could use this only once.

IMO, I don't mind aging and but looking young even when I turn 60 would be most welcome. People look like 35-40 even when they are 60 years old and are quite healthy as well. Some go for cosmic surgery while some are God gifted and mainly have a healthy diet.