[OT] But at what cost ?!

[AeroDm]

Let us not forget that 500 years of life means 450 years of work. You really want to put in the 9 to 5 for four and a half centuries before enjoying your final 30 years of peace? I sure as hell dont. Guarantee me happiness along with that lifespan and you can have whatever you want. Until then, I'm out.

 

[BiggusGeekus@Work]

So I get to live until 2600 but I have no ... um ... "little geekus"?

Forget that! I guess there really are some things worth dying for!

 

[Altamont Ravenard]

How many women have hysterectomies each year?

Not many. Women only have 1 uterus.

...

I wouldn't want to live 500 years if I had to work 470 of them...

AR

 

[Fenris]

Ok 500 years, but if you read the article, they did it by manipulating insulin levels and that put them in a lethargic or near quiessent state. So yeah you can live for 500 years but you are in a diabetic coma the whole time.

And the removal of the reproductive organs were only to manipulate the sex hormones more easily.

But to burst everyones bubble the scale up from C. elegans to mammals is actaully pretty big. I don't think we will even see mammalian testing (mice) of this system for at least 5 years, with results in 10.

 

[Bran Blackbyrd]

No need to get testy.
Daniel

There you go again. LOL.

Not many. Women only have 1 uterus.

Nice. Subtle, but nice.

 

[nopantsyet]

God, no. Please God, no. No, never. Never ever. Not in a million years. No way I want to live that long. (Shudder.) Who cares about the reproductive side of it, you'd probably stop caring about that before the first hundred years were up anyway.

I'm just talking about being alive that dang long. Given the choice between 50 and 500, I'll step up and take 50, thank you very much and please opt for cremation--a baby boom is bad enough, I hate to imagine the boom of thousands of people whose immortality drugs simultaneously wore off.

Bah!

 

[Angcuru]

Plans to accept procedure as soon as the keeping of the gonads is allowed*, and before they impose laws extending retirement ages so that I cannot be non-retired due to ex-post-facto law. I tell you, there are times when I truly live this country.

*unless i'm a wrinkly old windbag.

 

[Gnarlo]

Wouldn't make a hill of beans of difference in average lifespans, unfortunately. Not in a country where so much of the population gets SOB walking across the room to pick up their cigarettes, only puts down the bottle when it falls from their fingers, and only eats at places where they can Super-Size for only 20 cents more

Only stated as an unfortunate observation and not as a judgement, mind you; as I myself never let a week go by in college without 3 or 4 hangovers, was a pack a dayer until just a few years ago, and until just recently was a member of the "could you take a picture of my feet, I miss them so" club myself.

 

[Dirigible]

Wouldn't make a hill of beans of difference in average lifespans, unfortunately. Not in a country where so much of the population gets SOB walking across the room...

Ah. So it's no use to your country, so let's just drop it, right?

 

[Oni]

You wouldn't really see, though, Oni. The continuous, miniscule changes would be essentially imperceptable.

If you wanna see change, you reall wanna get cryo'd and woken up every 20 years.

You kidding me? The changes I've seen in my short 23 years is more than incredible. Just sit down and think about all the advances we've seen. How computers have changed, how style has changed. All the major political events, and so on and so forth. So many changes in my short lifetime and then you multiply that by 20 and change, that would be something else. Heck the USA isn't even 500 years old, and look at all the changes we've wedged between a couple of Georges.