Alright.
This topic is going to be the largest issue/crisis that mankind has EVER had to face, and it is coming VERY soon. Wars will be waged, riots will rage, civil war will devastate many countries; primarily populous industrializing nations such as China and India.
The Topic
<font color="red"><b>Life Extending Gerontomical Treatments</font> </b>
Right now, at present, scientists can keep fruit flies alive indefinatley, and a number of treatments are being developed such as telomerase inhibitors that could be the cure for cancer, telomerase enhancers, which can keep your cells reproducing indefinatley and stop parts of your body from againg, and genetic mismatch and repair techniques.
We could very well be the first generation that can live to see their 300th birthday, far past the traditional "three score and 10 years".
We will not be the fraile old people we see today, but active and healthy with the body of a 30 year old for as long as we live. (We will probably get hit by a bus or something eventually, so we are not truley immortal).
I dont know about you people, but I would have a very different state of mind if I was going to live a thousand years, than if I was going to live 70.
So.....
What do you people think about this?
Do you want live forever?(not technically)
I personaly will wait for a good tested treatment before I take it, and I will take every treatment for as long as I live. I am a Strong athiest, so I really dont care much for dieing. As for the people that want to prevent these treatments from coming, I'm all for those people dieing.
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You cannot start a movement of more than five people without at least one *ucking idiot.
--Kim Stanley Robinson (Green Mars)
This topic is going to be the largest issue/crisis that mankind has EVER had to face, and it is coming VERY soon. Wars will be waged, riots will rage, civil war will devastate many countries; primarily populous industrializing nations such as China and India.
The Topic
<font color="red"><b>Life Extending Gerontomical Treatments</font> </b>
Right now, at present, scientists can keep fruit flies alive indefinatley, and a number of treatments are being developed such as telomerase inhibitors that could be the cure for cancer, telomerase enhancers, which can keep your cells reproducing indefinatley and stop parts of your body from againg, and genetic mismatch and repair techniques.
We could very well be the first generation that can live to see their 300th birthday, far past the traditional "three score and 10 years".
We will not be the fraile old people we see today, but active and healthy with the body of a 30 year old for as long as we live. (We will probably get hit by a bus or something eventually, so we are not truley immortal).
I dont know about you people, but I would have a very different state of mind if I was going to live a thousand years, than if I was going to live 70.
So.....
What do you people think about this?
Do you want live forever?(not technically)
I personaly will wait for a good tested treatment before I take it, and I will take every treatment for as long as I live. I am a Strong athiest, so I really dont care much for dieing. As for the people that want to prevent these treatments from coming, I'm all for those people dieing.
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You cannot start a movement of more than five people without at least one *ucking idiot.
--Kim Stanley Robinson (Green Mars)