Experts Say Humans Can Live to 1,000

[Istik]

http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/20 ... -live.html

Cambridge University geneticist Aubrey de Grey has famously stated, “The first person to live to be 1,000 years old is certainly alive today …whether they realize it or not, barring accidents and suicide, most people now 40 years or younger can expect to live for centuries.

[gelfling]

Fascinating stuff. I wouldn't mind living to be a thousand years old as long as everyone else I knew could do the same and all of us remained youthful. That said, I hope we'd all have lived long enough to have created efficient robots so that we wouldn't have to work 9 to 5 every week-day for 975 years....

[Toucan]

fuck that,
it's not as if you get to spend 950 years at 22 when your shagging like a tiger
you start to go nuts and smell of piss at about 60/70. by the time you hit 1k you'll be very smelly mentalist

[Istik]

MOB minimum age requirements are now at 500 years.

Teenagers are annoying enough now, can you imagine how annoying they would be when you're 350 years old.

Besides, if we had the last 1000 years worth of family still alive, we'd probably have to have 10 people sleeping in each bedroom, as there wouldnt be enough room for everyone.

Could you imagine the queue at the dole office..

[tnajus]

I would think the age to retire would have to go up as well....maybe age 750? Though the possibility of this is very intriguing, it sounds like a page strait out of a sci-fi book...but then so did cell phones and hover crafts at one time. The human mind is a wonderful thing when it can make dreams reality. Think of the things you could learn if give a thousand years to learn them. I could master so many languages in that amount of time.....

[swalmy]

Damn! I'm just over the age limit of 40 for people who are going to live a thousand years!!!! I'm going to die in my 80's while most of you bastards live forever. Curse you all!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Lores]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/34722 ... years.html

A good step:


Vaccine for skin cancer 'available in five years'


The scientist who developed a vaccine for cervical cancer is working on another inoculation against certain types of skin cancer that could be available in five years time.

By Bonnie Malkin in Sydney
Last Updated: 2:38PM GMT 17 Nov 2008


Professor Ian Frazer, of the University of Queensland, said tests of the vaccine had proven successful on animals and that human trials could begin next year.

Mr Frazer, who delivered his findings to the Australian Health and Medical Research Congress, said a vaccine for children aged 10 to 12 could be available in five to 10 years.

The jab would protect against squamous cell carcinoma, the second most common skin cancer, but not the more deadly melanomas.

It works by targeting papillomavirus, a common infection which can turn abnormal cells into cancerous cells and is believed to cause at least five per cent of all cancers.

Mr Frazer helped develop the cervical cancer vaccine Gardasil, which is now used to inoculate millions worldwide. He hopes the skin cancer vaccine would work in a similar way.

"What we've learnt together, through the study of animal models, is that the skin has natural defences which switch off killer T cells," he told the conference.

"We've also found a number of ways to overcome these blocks and let the immune system work.

"We now want to test vaccines based on this knowledge in clinical trials, to find out whether we can develop vaccines that could be used to treat people at risk of skin cancer."

Australia suffers from the highest rate of skin cancer in the world, with 1,600 people dying from the disease each year. About 400,000 people are diagnosed with non-melanoma cancers in the county, and 400 people die as a result.

Mr Frazer warned there was still no substitute for staying out of the sun.

"In the future, just as the cervical cancer vaccine will complement the cervical cancer screening program, I hope that a skin cancer vaccine will be available to help in the prevention of skin cancer, but we'll still need to stay out of the sun."

But cancer specialists have agreed.

Professor Ian Olver of the Australian Cancer Council said that even if the vaccine was proved to work in humans, the normal rules of sun exposure would not change.

"The traditional prevention messages of staying out of the sun during the hottest part of the day, covering up and using sun screen still apply.

"This would be an extra layer of protection."

Despite it limitations, Mr Olver said the discovery of the vaccine was "a good sign for the future".

"It is possible other vaccines could flow from this," he said.

[asharin]

If this ever actually happened, then you can bet that within 100 years we'd HAVE to seriously think about colonies on other planets.
The world is getting crowded in places as it is, if we started living to 1k years old, we'd overpopulate within a century or two.

Especially if the Chinese lifted their 1 child per family rule