‘We Will Be Able to Live to 1,000’
January 22nd, 2007Sure, Stupid, will we be able to drink the water? Or, maybe we won’t need any water. Maybe we will just download our consciousness into a computer running Windows version Hell-On-Earth-Meets-the-Matrix.
Where do they find these f*@*&#g lunatics? In universities flush with grant money, that’s where. Clear air, food and water for the people who are alive now? Oh no. F*ck that. There’s much more important work to be done!
Cambridge University geneticist Aubrey de Grey is so damn smart that in a serious essay about extending the human lifespan to 1,000 years, using genetic “therapies”, there isn’t one word about resource depletion on this planet!?
Additionally, I’ll sleep well at night knowing that people like Cheney will live forever. Won’t you?
Via: BBC:
Life expectancy is increasing in the developed world. But Cambridge University geneticist Aubrey de Grey believes it will soon extend dramatically to 1,000. Here, he explains why.
Ageing is a physical phenomenon happening to our bodies, so at some point in the future, as medicine becomes more and more powerful, we will inevitably be able to address ageing just as effectively as we address many diseases today.
I claim that we are close to that point because of the SENS (Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence) project to prevent and cure ageing.
It is not just an idea: it’s a very detailed plan to repair all the types of molecular and cellular damage that happen to us over time.
And each method to do this is either already working in a preliminary form (in clinical trials) or is based on technologies that already exist and just need to be combined.
This means that all parts of the project should be fully working in mice within just 10 years and we might take only another 10 years to get them all working in humans.
1000 years of the same tedious job? Great!
Fifty ex-husbands? Super!
I hereby claim the Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senesence and all associated life-extension technologies and research, in the name of Almighty BushCo and its progeny, for ever and ever, Amen.
Great so we can quadruple world population in just a few years?!?!?Wondeer what we’ll all be eating? Soylent green maybe??
As if the world didn’t already have enough mouths to feed and provide for, let’s keep the same ones around for a few centuries more to boot.
How much does 9 1/2 centuries of ADN therapy to save your nearly eternal ass from genetic oblivion cost? and who will be able to afford it?
The same ones who can now afford no questions asked private healthcare and organ transplants from the third world, the same one who will be able to afford unrestricted access to clean air, water and food regardless of how bad environmental conditions for the rest of us are. The same ones whose economic power explains that we are today spending about 60 times as much on cosmetic surgery than on a vaccine for malaria….Cater for the rich and powerful, that’s where the money is…Stories like these remind me how much our culture has devolved for the past 30 years…
This is very old news. The artice was from december 3, 2004.
Also, given the opportunity, I’d choose not to die of old age. I’m always surprised by those who would choose otherwise.
…and cheap, limitless, clean fusion power is only 20 years away…[plonk]
Ah yes, fusion, the power source of the future….and always will be.
I had a physics professor (and Los Alamos National Laboratory alumni) in college who was fond of quoting that one.
Remember that de Grey is not actually a geneticist, or indeed any kind of scientist. He is just a guy who has read a lot of books and synthesised an idea about longevity. he doesn’t actually do any practical research, he doesn’t actually perform any science.