(When) Do you think the human race will defeat the aging process?

[Providian]

We'll probably devise the secret of eternal youth the day before the human race becomes extinct-as every dominant life form on this planet has at some point in its development.

 

[BackDoc]

Thanks for the great link booger. I wonder what that means for humans in the future regarding what it specified. Very interesting!

 

[absolute hardgainer]

Well, I am pleased I have sparked a discussion with this thread. A couple of thoughts that I have, I think overpopulation will become a mahor problem much earlier than 200-300 years from now, that is if it isn't a problem already.

I think the main shortage is going to be a shortage of fresh water which will be more problematic and already is in some parts of the world than a shortage of food.

hardgainer (my $0.02)

 

[Boob Lover II]

I'm not too worried about freshwater. Water never truly disappears, it gets recycled and "cleaned" by bacteria if we don't overstrain the cleaning/regeneration process. People seem to think the ocean is a vast dumpground. That could become a HUGE problem. If sea life dies...we die. Simple.

 

[subtile]

well - some ppl think we already found a way to eternal youth..

LOOK AT THIS

Please comment this because I dont know what to believe..

 

[booger]

Subtile

I think you posted this on another link. But it doesn't matter if humans defeat/slow down the aging process. If you get hit by a car you'll be just as dead. Until they figure out how to hardwire us, replace our physical structure with goretex, kevlar, stainless steel, and the like we'll always be in 'deep shit'.

 

[subtile]

yes i did post that link before and I totally agree with you.. We could get killed by accident etc.. Nobody found out how to repair a person who have been thrugh a blender

 

[absolute hardgainer]

You may want to consider that although the human body isn't made of any permanent sturctures it is renewable. Our body regrows and as we age this regeneration progress gets weaker and flawed. This might be the key to anti-aging or living forever.

hardgainer (bump)

 

[kalik razak]

well this doctor alex chiu sure knows how to milk from the ignorant, I feel you can never prevent aging, thus live forever but you can slow it down, just look at clarence bass and albert beckles.

 

[xmoulton508x]

Geneticists have already been able to extend the life of common flies by 4x through the manipultion of the p21 gene. The human genome is definiately more complicted and extensive then a flies but now that we have mapped the human genome, the possibilities are there.