NationStates Jolt Archive

I went to deathclock.com and saw my death in 1,222,124,212 seconds. Huzzah.

That is interesting. Goodbye.

It's funny, since they don't factor in suicide, drug overdose and assasination.

It's funny, since they don't factor in suicide, drug overdose and assasination.
And are those likely ends for you?

Also doesn't figure in your line of work or any high-risk habits or activities.

Puh. Soon we will live to be 1000 years anyway. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4003063.stm)

And are those likely ends for you?

Actually, they are.

Okay, make the most of the time deathclock has given you. Good luck!

Okay, make the most of the time deathclock has given you. Good luck!

I will.

*Runs off to construct giant mechs with missile pods*

Puh. Soon we will live to be 1000 years anyway. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4003063.stm)

I'd have a hard time believing it if the guy pictured in the article was telling me that. But I already know it's true. They've used life extension techniques on a species of tiny worms (barely visible to the naked eye) whose name slips my mine. They usually only live for a few days. With a bit of manipulation they survive for two weeks. I don't know the details on that though.

One of the seven molecular and cellular damages that they talk about is cancer I think. We don't quite have a cure for any form of cancer as far as I know.

If you are a reasonably risk-aware teenager today in an affluent, non-violent neighbourhood, you have a risk of dying in the next year of well under one in 1,000, which means that if you stayed that way forever you would have a 50/50 chance of living to over 1,000.

Wow, I don't like those odds. I think I'm going to get my treatment, win the lottery, live as a hermit, and wear a safety harness at all times.

I'd have a hard time believing it if the guy pictured in the article was telling me that. But I already know it's true. They've used life extension techniques on a species of tiny worms (barely visible to the naked eye) whose name slips my mine. They usually only live for a few days. With a bit of manipulation they survive for two weeks. I don't know the details on that though.

One of the seven molecular and cellular damages that they talk about is cancer I think. We don't quite have a cure for any form of cancer as far as I know.



Wow, I don't like those odds. I think I'm going to get my treatment, win the lottery, live as a hermit, and wear a safety harness at all times.

They were nematode worms, and iirc, it was achived through calorie restriction. The worms were only fed on alternate days.

There is evidence that this may work with primates, but the benefit would not be as big.

And here is a nice link for you all :)

Caloric Restriction (http://www.dhushara.com/book/med/lognl/longlif.htm)

-Jimus-

-= sets up a wooden soap box =-

The end times are upon us all, 'and it will be like the days of noah, when men lived to be a 1000 years' the end is near, the end is near


:cool: :gundge:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4003063.stm
Aubrey de Grey:
I refuse to believe anything spoken to me by a man wearing a floral shirt and a red beard down to his nipples.
I think my mother might have warned me against such men, I'm not sure.

The first person to live to 1,000 might be 60 already
*looks at self*

Hey! I'm only 20! Yay, I get to be one of them! :D

1,000 years?

Now that's just boring.

1,000 years?

Now that's just boring.

Indeed. I don't want to live to 1000

pff... 1000 years is nothing. When we're all running as computer simulations on a dyson sphere, we, as well as trillions of our post-human and post-reality descendents, will exist for unimaginable aeons upon aeons of subjective reality in a single hour. You'll see, it'll happen... eventually :p

the key word is eventually, it seems.