Why People Don't Live Past 114 916
kkleiner writes "Average life expectancy has nearly doubled in developed countries over the 20th century. But a puzzling part to the equation has emerged. While humans are in fact living longer lives on average, the oldest age that the oldest people reach seems to be stubbornly and oddly precisely cemented right at 114. What will it take for humans to live beyond this limit?"
Re:Genesis 6:3 (Score:5, Funny)
Boring, wake me up when there's begetting and pause it for me if you can see tits.
Because, as we all know, the answer to life (Score:5, Funny)
Look a bunny!
what?
Re:Genesis 6:3 (Score:5, Funny)
So he owes us each six years? Can I choose which ones? I want 21-27 again. Thanks.
Re:The oldest person lived to 122. (Score:1, Funny)
Time travel (Score:5, Funny)
The emphasis is mine.
Re:Because, as we all know, the answer to life (Score:5, Funny)
If you factor out 114, you get 19, 3, and 2. (19 * 3 * 2 = 114)
If you add these up, you get 24.
Flip the numbers (since death is the opposite of life) and you get 42.
Thus, the answer to life, the universe and everything is 42.
Re:Genesis 6:3 (Score:5, Funny)
I agree, we shall form a line (Score:5, Funny)
You first. Don't worry, the rest will be right behind you. laughing.
Re:Time for a ethics of dying (Score:2, Funny)
/dev/world is full - please kill yourself or anyone you can
Contractual? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:A statistical blimp (Score:4, Funny)
So what has the non-rigid dirigible got to do with it?
Re:yet more biblical contradictions (Score:5, Funny)
Lifespans gradually decreased post-flood.
Re:Time travel (Score:5, Funny)
Ooh, a lesson on not changing history from Mr I'm-My-Own-Grandpa!
Re:yet more biblical contradictions (Score:5, Funny)
It is a little known fact that Methuselah exploited the life span mechanics of the Real Life MMO. That and other bugs, hackers, gimmicks, etc. got so bad that God had to nearly completely revamp the game. The new mechanics were firmly put in place after The Flood patch.
Heart rate (Score:5, Funny)
Well according to this post http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/02/15/2338229/scientists-study-how-little-exercise-you-need?utm_source=feedburnerGoogle+UK&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot+(Slashdot)&utm_content=Google+UK [slashdot.org] earlier today. A person's maximum heart rate can be calculated: "very roughly, by subtracting our age from 220".
From these two 'facts' that I have learnt today I conclude that once your maximum heart rate drops to 106 - you die.
Re:Genesis 6:3 (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Genesis 6:3 (Score:2, Funny)
And the Lord sayeth, "sucketh the horse's cocketh, and drink the milk of the stallion. Feel now, the stallion's fruits, roll them around in your hands. You shalleth be granteth eternal life"
-- Neuteronomy 69:420
So that's why no one is granted eternal life.
Re:Because, as we all know, the answer to life (Score:5, Funny)
Matrix limitation (Score:5, Funny)
Simple: the Matrix has a 4 Yotta bytes limitation for any human memory.
Each lived day stores 150 Peta bytes of sense information in short term memory, which quickly decays in 100 Peta bytes for long term memory (of lot of which is kept for dreams and feelings, only 3% is used by conscience simulation).
This storage limit translates into 114,9 years of life simulation.
Re:Genesis 6:3 (Score:5, Funny)
The earth must have rotated faster around the sun 6000 years ago. I guess the earth was more streamlined when it was still flat.
Re:Time for a ethics of dying (Score:4, Funny)
Don't know about you, but I would like to see a mid twenties Sigourney Weaver battle alien monsters. Not grandma. What's she going to do anyway? Stab it with her knitting needles? Make it tea? Relive stories of her neighbors dog 70 years ago?
Re:yet more biblical contradictions (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Genesis 6:3 (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Genesis 6:3 (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Time for a ethics of dying (Score:5, Funny)
In the beginning, there was nothingness.
Then he brought something from nothingness.
Then he brought order from the chaos.
And he looked upon it, and saw that it was good.
Re:Genesis 6:3 (Score:5, Funny)
that would be 1/2 of leviticus, and if you are not Baptist, the songs of solomon are good old bible porn.
Re:Genesis 6:3 (Score:5, Funny)
Awesome... I guess I'm going to live for ever then... ... and I was just doing it for fun- didn't even know about that passage in the bible.
Re:yet more biblical contradictions (Score:5, Funny)
He traded immortality for sex. Pretty much every man would do this if given the choice.
Re:yet more biblical contradictions (Score:5, Funny)
and he did... Adam got married.
Re:yet more biblical contradictions (Score:4, Funny)
That's a little too Torchwood for me.
Re:lunar counts confused with years (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Genesis 6:3 (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Because, as we all know, the answer to life (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Genesis 6:3 (Score:5, Funny)
The chances of a woman on slashdot seem slim
Re:Contractual? (Score:4, Funny)
Aren't things supposed to break down shortly after the warranty expires?
Re:Obviously... (Score:4, Funny)
Yes, because god used a shareware version of Genome Creator.
Re:yet more biblical contradictions (Score:5, Funny)
> he traded immortality for the knowledge of good and evil. Essentially for a loss of innocence. Pretty crappy trade if you ask me.
You think that's bad? The Highlander fought and beat every other immortal to gain "the prize". What was "the prize" you ask? He lost his immortality and gained mind-reading. That's like picking the goat behind door number 3.
Re:yet more biblical contradictions (Score:3, Funny)
But "with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like one day" (2 Peter 3:8).
Very similar to sitting in history class.
Re:Mod parent up (Score:5, Funny)
The movie will, of course, be a disappointment.
Re:Genesis 6:3 (Score:4, Funny)
[shakes fist at moon]
Curse you!!!!!!
Re:yet more biblical contradictions (Score:4, Funny)
I can see the job ads on monster ..... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:yet more biblical contradictions (Score:5, Funny)
A Man said to god "What's a million years to you?"
God said "A second."
Then the man said to god "what's a million dollars to you?"
God said "A penny."
So the man said to god, "Would you give me a penny?"
God said "Of course I will. Just a second..."
Spoilers: (Score:5, Funny)
Mary was no virgin; Jesus was just a man; it's a horrible tale about deception, greed and lust for power; the taking advantage of people's gullibility, fear and inability to think critically. Jesus catches out Judas using GPS, buttonhole cameras, and bribed Roman constabulary. Three stars; needed more CGI, and story seems at least partially cribbed from the Egyptian Book of the Dead [a Warner Bros. title.]
Re:Mod parent up (Score:2, Funny)
But returns as a zombie. I heard there's a lot of flesh and blood eating.
I love that post apocalyptic stuff.