How long till immortality?

you really mean how long till we cure ageing, imortality would require a way to combat all diseases and accidents...

it would be a disater if it happened before we have the ability to travel between stars or at least build massive habitable space structures (like ring world)

it would also probably cause ww3.... since faced with imortality you would ahve to plan 100's or 1000's (if not more) years in advance and secure resources
 
Morbius said:
One of the main blocks is a fundamental problem with chromosomal replication because the protective telomeres shorten with each division. Telomeres set a cellular limit on lifespan as when they reach a critical length, further division is impossible.
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what ever the exact process its got to be fundermental to how life evolved since you never see a 60 year old looking like and with the same physical atributes of a 20yr old... genetic freaks some times are tiny, some times huge but no one ever lived to 200... or got to 70 and could run like a 20yr old...
 
200-300 years? I see as very improbable.
Average life span in a 1st world country being 100 years maybe, just maybe sometime in the future.
Depends on so many variables though. For example is new/mutated viruses, antibiotics that will no longer have any affect, war, resources and population growth.
 
doofer said:
What's the obsession with living longer? Have none of you ever seen inside an old people's home? Sitting in incontinence pads slurping porridge 18hrs a day watching endless repeats of day-time TV?

I really don't get it. :confused:
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But if genetic manipulation meant you could live as 20/30/40yr old for 100+years?
 
Immortality raises a number of issues.

As to be immortal, you also need to be indestructible.

It would also need to not need sustenance, if it could reproduce it could end up taking up all of the matter in the universe (over time).

I (hope) we never do.

As to quote Charlie Chaplin.

"As long as people die, liberty will never perish".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immortality

Immortality is the ability to live forever, or put another way, it is an immunity from death.
 
Not in the same body. While ageing can be slowed down I have my doubts about total immortality but what I do envision is when people will be able to pay to clone their bodies and quite possibly their memories as well. Kind of like a Windows System Image backup and then contact their lawyers to set in motion that if "they" die one day that their Clone should be unfrozen and then that takes over o.0

The scary thing is that something like that isn't Science Fiction any more.

Living things are meant to age anyway.
 
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