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Hibbyradge
29-01-2014, 02:59 PM
Where are all these medical breakthroughs going to take us?

It's incredible.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-25917270
Big Frank
29-01-2014, 03:05 PM
Where are all these medical breakthroughs going to take us?

It's incredible.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-25917270

Quality. Who wants to die.

Lets use this technology on Sir Paddy of Stanton :agree:
Saorsa
29-01-2014, 03:19 PM
No sure I'd want tae live for ever but I could be doing with a new back while I'm still kickin around. :agree: maybe they can grow me one. :greengrin
CropleyWasGod
29-01-2014, 03:33 PM
I read that earlier. Mind-blowing stuff.

One wonders, though, whether the planet can sustain the population. On one hand, sounds fab, on the other it sounds like a nightmare.
Sylar
29-01-2014, 03:36 PM
Surely any Hibs fan wants to live forever - then, POSSIBLY, we might get to see the Holy Grail get lifted :greengrin
CropleyWasGod
29-01-2014, 03:38 PM
Surely any Hibs fan wants to live forever - then, POSSIBLY, we might get to see the Holy Grail get lifted :greengrin

Some things are beyond the powers of medical science.
VickMackie
30-01-2014, 07:22 PM
When this type of thing comes readily available you'll end up with the really rich getting to buy spare parts for their body. It'll never be available to Joe Public because of the natural resources required to sustain a bigger population.
Scouse Hibee
30-01-2014, 07:27 PM
Sadly a member of my bowls club passed away this week, however aged 104 he had a great innings, who needs modern medicine.
Onceinawhile
07-02-2014, 10:45 PM
One of my least favourite queen songs.
Hibrandenburg
08-02-2014, 07:09 PM
Me! Life's good, if it wasn't for that darned football malarkey!
Hibbyradge
09-02-2014, 10:24 AM
Sadly a member of my bowls club passed away this week, however aged 104 he had a great innings, who needs modern medicine.

It is, indeed, a great innings.

However, without "modern medicine", it's extremely unlikely that he could have lived that long.
Hibercelona
12-02-2014, 08:50 AM
This is fantastic.

We may actually live long enough to see us lift the SC. :greengrin
barcahibs
18-02-2014, 12:52 AM
I'm sure I've read there's a few researchers who reckon the first person who'll live to be 1000 has already been born.

As CWG says earlier though the major problem is that there's no way the planet will be able to sustain the sort of population that implies without major adjustments to... just about everything.

IMO the issue of global overpopulation will be THE major problem that we'll have to face as a species. Anthropogenic global warming is the big scare just now but (assuming it exists) it's only a symptom of that real issue.

But what can you do? I can't imagine any politician facing it.
Hibercelona
18-02-2014, 08:47 AM
We'll be terraforming Mars long before someone lives to a thousand, so I wouldn't worry. :wink:
barcahibs
18-02-2014, 09:45 PM
We'll be terraforming Mars long before someone lives to a thousand, so I wouldn't worry. :wink:

Hah yeah - I think the chances of me personally living to 1000 are somewhere between slim and none. On my doughnut based diet, if I make it to next week I'll be doing well.

But the point stands - When my grandad was born there were approx 1.7 billion people in the world, when he died there were six billion. Today there's 7+ billion - even if I only live to the same age as my grandad what will it be then?

And you also have to take into account that only about a third of the people alive today have what most people in this country would consider a good standard of living. I'd hope by the time I'm 90 (if I make it!) that everyone in the world has a living standard at least as good as we in the developed world have now.

If we're all going to live forever then the implied population densities make it sound like a world I wouldn't want to live in.

That's your cheery thought for the night :greengrin