World's oldest human being discovered in Indonesia at the age of 145

dal · 28 Aug 2016 at 05:24

And I thought I was old at 46, jeez bet he feels ancient.

Destination · 28 Aug 2016 at 08:22

He is his child, or grandchild.
Interesting story from Indonesia virtually always a scam.

byeo · 28 Aug 2016 at 08:57

Old Man said:
How nice of you, but answer the question!

Cosimo · 28 Aug 2016 at 08:59

Hotwired said:
Just cut him in half and count the rings.

=XDC=FluphyBunny · 28 Aug 2016 at 10:09

I would say its as likely as the 171 year Nigerian, so no.

"Yet to independently verified" says it all.

McBain · 28 Aug 2016 at 10:13

Utter BS.

Sliver · 28 Aug 2016 at 10:29

I'm calling bs. No way is he 145 years old.

Freefaller · 28 Aug 2016 at 10:36

I think it is improbable. I'm sure we will get to that sort of age, and I don't think it is completely impossible, but highly improbable as I said.

Freefaller · 28 Aug 2016 at 10:38

Dis86 said:
Actually it wasn't! It's a common misconception but people when not killed by others often lived to ripe old ages! Child mortality massively skews the figures.

Also modern medicine and diets are hugely better, allowing people to be in better health for longer. Had they had that centuries ago i'm sure they would be closer to us.

However, there is a very clear and notable increase in life expectancy over the centuries, so the comment of "we are living longer" is actually valid.

Ayahuasca · 28 Aug 2016 at 10:43

Fraudin'

Diddums · 28 Aug 2016 at 11:10

Just chop a limb off and count the rings, one ring for each year.

Tunney · 28 Aug 2016 at 11:18

Artery said:
Just reminds me of all those Nigerians claiming to be about 10 years younger in football.

Former Everton and Middlesbrough striker Yakubu is 33 according to his Wikipedia page. Seems legit.

Craig321 · 28 Aug 2016 at 11:26

Indonesia. Fake.

The_Abyss · 28 Aug 2016 at 11:36

Seems unlikely, but looking at current mortality trends the world's first 150 year old human has already been born. Scary stuff, in a world where many people still expect a great retirement by saving peanuts, working for 40 years and retiring at 65 years old.

Heinz57 · 28 Aug 2016 at 11:48

Dis86 said:
Actually it wasn't! It's a common misconception but people when not killed by others often lived to ripe old ages! Child mortality massively skews the figures.

Well, this is my area of research and the average age in the 14th C (ignoring the Black Death) must have been 40-something. There are occasional peasants who might have been 50 or 60. A depressingly high number of people never saw their grandchildren in my records.

It was a hard life, one family with the usual virgate might be farming 25-50 acres by themselves (some in fallow of course) and many were malnourished, some may have only eaten meat once a year at the harvest boon.

Landed/titled people could live to 80+ if they didn't get ill.

do_ron_ron · 28 Aug 2016 at 11:53

Old Man said:
It'd be nice if this was true, so what do you think, is it really possible?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/worlds-oldest-person-man-mbah-gotho-indonesia-145-years-old-a7213191.html

Very, very doubtful. It is firstly a guy. Females live longer than males. He is from what was a poorly developed part of the World. Records from these area of births, deaths etc were almost non existent.

Destination · 28 Aug 2016 at 14:38

The_Abyss said:
Seems unlikely, but looking at current mortality trends the world's first 150 year old human has already been born. Scary stuff, in a world where many people still expect a great retirement by saving peanuts, working for 40 years and retiring at 65 years old.

I still do not see many active over 100 year old people.
There is a limit to how well a human can work, now if lifespan does hit a pitential 150, the last fifty years will be servo assisted, plugged in, monitored by medical apps, and being pumped full of whatever is required.

Still there is a limit to how much work one can do, unless pensions eventually become fifty percent products that turn into medical insurance trusts, I fail to see how anyone can be supported in a capitalist society without state or child funding.

There is a fair mess to be untangled and sorted over time.

Now to reiterate, this chap is a fraud, might be his grandparent, best of it is, he might not even realise if he has the same name and a bit of demetia.

new boy · 28 Aug 2016 at 14:53

Do we really not have any proper tests that show how old someone is?

Destination · 28 Aug 2016 at 16:33

new boy said:
Do we really not have any proper tests that show how old someone is?

No.
We can do telomere testing. Testing to give an idea of how much is left within cells, but thats about the height of it, we all start with different telomeric lengths, probably related to how many cousins loved one another in our hx, but very hard to gauge.

Fake.