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

[gjohnson5]

Overpopulation will trump all advances. Today the world is roughly 1/4 China, soon to be 1/4 India, 1/4 Moslem and 1/4 everyone else. China is attempting birth control. India in 50 years will equal China in size. The Moslem world is doubling every 2 generations (takes over Europe in 2100) and everyone else is rapidly shrinking in percentage. China is hell bent at taking over the world economics. The Moslems want you to convert or die. India wishes to rival China. Everyone else will be taking their last cruise, sipping that last Martini, spouting secular diatribe, crying about Dolhin in their tuna, buying that one final Hybrid car, taking Mass alone on Sunday, resetting their dock because the sea rose 2" in one year...again, Africa has succombed to drought-plague-HIV-tribal warfare, South America has the Atomic bomb and no one cares.

Who will have time, money or energy to further explore life extension.

To quote Clint Eastwood from Heartbreak Ridge, "improvise , adapt , overcome"

 

[Maxgain]

will never happen nature will produce something else to continue the natural cycle of life.

 

[B i C e P HeAD]

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..

I think that guy should rub some lube on his device jack down his draws and sit on those rings. That shit is retarded. ontop of that this guy is giving it away if you do a survey........hmm i call bullshit. if you dont know what to believe on this topic, i got a bridge in New York i own and will sell you really cheap. Let me know

 

[Assertive Guy]

Overpopulation will trump all advances. Today the world is roughly 1/4 China, soon to be 1/4 India, 1/4 Moslem and 1/4 everyone else. China is attempting birth control. India in 50 years will equal China in size. The Moslem world is doubling every 2 generations (takes over Europe in 2100) and everyone else is rapidly shrinking in percentage. China is hell bent at taking over the world economics. The Moslems want you to convert or die. India wishes to rival China. Everyone else will be taking their last cruise, sipping that last Martini, spouting secular diatribe, crying about Dolhin in their tuna, buying that one final Hybrid car, taking Mass alone on Sunday, resetting their dock because the sea rose 2" in one year...again, Africa has succombed to drought-plague-HIV-tribal warfare, South America has the Atomic bomb and no one cares.

Who will have time, money or energy to further explore life extension.

I did some research on this myself a few years ago, and the statistics had China overtaking the U.S in just 20 years as a superpower.

 

[mr. snakes]

Ok, consider this. Humans in the Western world now live about 2 1/2 times longer than our original human ancestors. Advances in medicine are continuing to increase our life expectancy constantly. There is now limited but considerable research going on to defeat/halt or even reverse the aging process in humans. When do you think this will be achieved to the degree that human beings would no longer die of old age. In that way those humans would be immortal in the sense that they need not die of old age as now, but not invincible to death by accident, disease, etc.

hardgainer (!)

Never..................

 

[kylestyle]

I Thought it was kinda a misconception that people are living that much longer. Basically IDS (Infant Death Syndrome) accounted for such a high margin of skewed numbers back then (1800's - 1900's) the lowered the average life expectancy to lower levels.

Today we have a much higher rate of sucess with infants, which isn't messing with the numbers so bad. People are living longer, but not 2x as much.

 

[motodawg]

I already have and for a few thousand karma i will tell you!!!!!!!

 

[Assertive Guy]

I already have and for a few thousand karma i will tell you!!!!!!!

I'm sure the aging process will be defeated in 20 years or so.

 

[solarclimax]

I think people got the wrong idea, aging won't be defeated any time soon but the mortality rate will be extended.
It won't be defeated as such in the next 20 years, but life extension of 20 years or more will likely happen within the next 20 - 40, and then within lets say 20 or so years after that, even more extension maybe added onto the previous. The faster things like gene therapy etc get interest/recognition and large funding. The faster and more regular it will happen.
In theory the human race is already capable of extending life, scientists are already familiar with the mechanism's which act upon aging and how to counter those to some extent, it's just the money/resources aren't there yet.

 

[CheapPinz]

I think any remarkable discoveries will be kept to the elite. Meaning if you have the money to buy this knowledge and treatment, you will have access, but it wont be accessible to the poor in africa, the barrios of miami, or the welfare/shelter cases. I think about it like the HIV situation..there is obviously a successful treatment to keep one healthy with the bug. Look at Magic...the only man to fatten up with the disease. Because he has the money to finance his treatment. If he was a poor bastard, he'd be dead years ago. Same thing for anti-aging. Keeping people alive does not suit this world...the rate of employed to retired would be terribly unbalanced and the economies would crash as we could not support our retired/elderly with social security..The US govt would never push forward on this endeavor publicly for the masses, because of the monumental finacial burder that we would be hit with..I can't even imagine it.