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LongTomH

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31. I'm really concerned that it could happen in real life!

Mon Oct 21, 2013, 08:00 PM

Oct 2013

Check out this article: Scientists discover DNA body clock. There's a lot of ongoing research on resetting biological clocks, and stopping or reversing the aging process.

I can easily see anti-aging therapies being available to the mega-rich at secret clinics in place like the Cayman Islands while the average person in this country is denied access to even basic health care (If the Republicans get their way with the ACA!).

Edited to add: Take a look at this map of life expectancies in the US: http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2011/06/map-day-falling-life-expectancies

Some cohorts in the US, particularly low-income women are actually experiencing shorter lifespans. The reasons are complex; but, they all relate back to inequality in the US, with the differences in access to both health care and healthy food. The Affordable Health Care act will help, to some extent, but won't wipe out the differences.

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Google executive plans to live forever [View all] LiberalElite Oct 2013 OP

Future headline - next week: Cooley Hurd Oct 2013 #1

Actually hit by a bus. trumad Oct 2013 #4

Wonder if Rob Schneider is his supplier.... Buddha_of_Wisdom Oct 2013 #18

Yeah how nice, but you are still going to die from old age. Rex Oct 2013 #2

But if we all lived for thousands of years... randome Oct 2013 #6

True that, but you will still die one day. Rex Oct 2013 #8

Kurzweil is no Linus Pauling, though. randome Oct 2013 #10

I predict to nowhere or are there already studies that show Rex Oct 2013 #12

Maybe they are among us now and we just don't know! randome Oct 2013 #15

Well I wish him luck, I could never swallow that many pills a day. Rex Oct 2013 #17

I'm waiting for Cory Doctorow's "Bitchin' Society" and its "cure for death." Pab Sungenis Oct 2013 #9

I'm shooting for Futurama. Rex Oct 2013 #13

Why stop with just one clone per body? NuclearDem Oct 2013 #32

What's more likely - bio-engineered immortality or digital mind copying? nt el_bryanto Oct 2013 #3

The first one. randome Oct 2013 #7

bio-engineered mind copying seveneyes Oct 2013 #27

Pft. He's getting older and will be dropping singularities in his Depends Dreamer Tatum Oct 2013 #5

If he freezes himself he'll get to live in "Futurama" Blue_Tires Oct 2013 #11

Hmmmm. His vitamin regimen is certainly more complex than my daily "One-a-Day Mens". Nye Bevan Oct 2013 #14

Looks like a lot of Omega 3. Rex Oct 2013 #16

He'll end up part of the Stinkularity if he's not careful . . . hatrack Oct 2013 #19

Poor fool malaise Oct 2013 #20

That man has the most expensive urine in the world TlalocW Oct 2013 #21

I don't think 'vitamins' means the same thing to him as it does to us. randome Oct 2013 #22

Still, I bet it's still pricey. TlalocW Oct 2013 #30

Having personal physicians monitor your health on a daily basis... randome Oct 2013 #33

He sure made some awesome keyboards though. cemaphonic Oct 2013 #23

What terrifies me is the possibility of an elite living for centuries, while most of us are left.... LongTomH Oct 2013 #24

Seriously, there is a great sci-fi premise there. Nye Bevan Oct 2013 #28

I'm really concerned that it could happen in real life! LongTomH Oct 2013 #31

Check this movie out.. RedCappedBandit Oct 2013 #35

No different from hereditary dynastys. The faces change, the oppression stays the same. Ikonoklast Oct 2013 #39

As long as he doesn't start drinking liquified babies or something... bhikkhu Oct 2013 #25

I figure that once I exceed the age at which my father passed, in my mind, I will be playing bluestate10 Oct 2013 #41

This guy wrote a book that inspired me to pursue math and computer science mathematic Oct 2013 #26

He even did a movie... SummerSnow Oct 2013 #29

He does know this was a cartoon, right? DJ13 Oct 2013 #34

He won't make it. Too old. DireStrike Oct 2013 #36

Why would a person want to live forever? Living forever would bore me shitless. bluestate10 Oct 2013 #37

Easy way around that. randome Oct 2013 #38

one problem with extending one's natural life indefinitely... 0rganism Oct 2013 #40