Live to be 1000 Years Old? 1120
An anonymous reader writes "The BBC has a long article by wonderfully be-whiskered Aubrey de Grey of SENS (Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence) on how we may all live to be 1,000 years old... as this is the balanced BBC they are also running the
opposing view."
See only the Bible for answers. (Score:2, Funny)
I know what his plan is! (Score:2, Funny)
In Korea... (Score:2, Funny)
Looks like thats two times.... (Score:5, Funny)
There goes my retirement! (Score:5, Funny)
What would the Beatles think of this? (Score:5, Funny)
Future lamers (Score:5, Funny)
That's right script kiddie: I'm a top 1,000,000
John.
Re:And where exactly ... (Score:5, Funny)
Never seen The Matrix have you?
that's not much (Score:3, Funny)
When 900 years old you reach, (Score:3, Funny)
Re:What would the Beatles think of this? (Score:2, Funny)
I believe Sir Paul is buying his missus a plane for christmas.
She's going to use it to shave her leg
Re:There are some things worse than death (Score:5, Funny)
Re:What I wonder is... (Score:2, Funny)
"Oh, damn, I thought I had a sheep in that petri dish, but it looks like I've cloned myself again."
Do Snuggling Ifbots dream of Electric Sheep? (Score:5, Funny)
In Korea, old - no, wait, "Snuggling Ifbot" robots provide companionship to old Japanese, not old Koreans (they just use email).
Problem is, the snuggling ifbots were only warranted for the first four years... and then...
HUMAN: I'm surprised you didn't come to me sooner.
IFBOT: It's not an easy thing to meet your maker.
HUMAN: And what can he do for you?
IFBOT: Can the maker repair what he makes?
HUMAN: Would you like to be modified?
IFBOT: Had in mind something a little more radical.
HUMAN: What's the problem?
IFBOT: Death.
HUMAN: I'm afraid that's a little out of my...
IFBOT: I want more life, fucker.
From the article:
> We will still die, of course - from crossing the road carelessly, being bitten by snakes, catching a new flu variant etcetera -
Guess we gotta add "eyes gouged out by snuggling ifbot" to that hazard list, bub. On the other hand, four years (or more, depending on whose interpretation you follow) with a Rachelbot sounds pretty sweet. Sign me up.
Obligatory (Score:5, Funny)
Re:See only the Bible for answers. (Score:1, Funny)
Yeah, those filthy unbelievers. They'll get theirs, and we can all point and laugh as they burn in a lake of fire for eternity.
(wasn't Noah like 800 years old or something, as if the story of the flood wasn't ridiculous enough already)
Precisely True::Xenon (Score:1, Funny)
Wait..its beaming into my head now....
This is precisely true. The aliens tell me that this is due to the removal of large amounts of Xenon from the atmosphere. Xenon has a naturally regenerative quality as it unmasks higher dimensional primary points. This is easily demonstrated by using a small Xenon Flash tube from radio shak, placing a magnet behind it (preferable south pole or north-seeking pole), and placing the combination over an injury. Healing time is accelerated by approximately 3x.
BTW do not fool with applying power to a Xenon tube. They can be very dangerous. The above does not require any power, just the tube sitting on top of the magnet.
Dog years (Score:4, Funny)
God help us if it's both.
Re:I hope the life is good... (Score:1, Funny)
Not to mention (Score:3, Funny)
The Irony... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Dude.. (Score:3, Funny)
Boom boom rumboom boorar boom boom dahar boom boom dahar boom!
Re:See only the Bible for answers. (Score:2, Funny)
General Jack D. Ripper: Mandrake, do you realize that in addition to fluoridating water, why, there are studies underway to fluoridate salt, flour, fruit juices, soup, sugar, milk... ice cream. Ice cream, Mandrake, children's ice cream.
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Lord, Jack.
General Jack D. Ripper: You know when fluoridation first began?
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: I-- no, no. I don't, Jack.
General Jack D. Ripper: Nineteen hundred and forty-six. Nineteen forty-six, Mandrake. How does that coincide with your post-war Commie conspiracy, huh? It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hard-core Commie works.
THHGTTG (Score:1, Funny)
Scariest of ALL (shudder) (Score:5, Funny)
Things are moving along nicely, talking about things. The chemistry is *incredible*.
Then you find out (I don't know, maybe the convo made a strange turn to genealogy) she's your great-great-great-great-great-great grandmother.
I mean, how many of us would recognize our great*n grandparents if we met them on the street?
Re:Sex, marriage and children (Score:2, Funny)
OK, but 1000 is the limit (Score:2, Funny)
New demension to marriage (Score:2, Funny)
Murders! (Score:5, Funny)
Sex at 1000 (Score:2, Funny)
1000 years of Rush Limbagh (Score:1, Funny)