Comments on: Could We Live Forever? Or Even Come Close?

Technology, Along With Lifestyle Changes, May Extend Our Already-Increasing Lifespans

[seiku-2009]

Aging studies should not be exploiting animals whether they are worms at UCSF or Monkeys at the brutal primate center at the University of Wisconsin. As Carl Sagan said "if these creatures are so similar to us why are we keeping them in jail" Wayne Johnson Ph.D

[howcould]

The fountain of youth: No more african kid commercials.

[howcould]

Kids I never met before..

How do I know you aren''t lieing to me? How do I know you aren''t lieing and taking the money for yourself?

[gkc99]

That''s all we need is more rich drooling old Republicans driving their road hippos and burning up our childrens'' future living twice as long as before.

But it fits--more for the rich, while 5000 children a day are dying from drinking water contaminated with human feces. Great idea! Give that college professor tenure!

[howcould]

Why the hell should I have any emotions? Deyz got''em all!

[howcould]

The fountain of youth: Emotionless.

[howcould]

Ya wanna wear out the last of whats left of humanities nobility? Like a one headlight song? Lets hear about it.. Lets hear about it with a teer in your eye. With emotions oozing like methanphetamine. Because thats the only way anybody else is ever gonna cry like you.

[toolmangler-2009]

Ethics was the thing that brought to the lime light morality. Now whats so ethical about that?
Posted by howcould at 01:16 PM : Nov 11, 2007


Your ''Olde English'' phraseology is the thing that is throwing some people, It bothers me not as I tend to think in the same manner.

[howcould]

"As for how could....Hi Donnie, see you got a new name."

You, woman.. are fate worse than death. "Understand"? I understand nothing.

[howcould]

The world has its own conscience. Give it back to them. Knowledge is only power when its in the hands of people who really care about it. And if they don''t? They ruin it. So don''t tell everybody everything. Don''t show me Bill Clinton''s ****** on international teevee. I have no ability.. to understand you.

[b-easy63]

What? No ***! We would have to live forever with no children to follow in our footsteps.

Posted by logicanada at 01:05 PM : Nov 11, 2007

They''s grow them in testtubes like they have been doing for infertile couples for the past 20+ years. Then, they''s implant them into the mother''s womb and let her give birth. Or invent an artificial womb.

All of the pain, none of the Pleasure--not only does it sound like for women as if science was regressing back to medieval times, but I guarantee if this came about, and women still had to give birth--they would die sooner than the men.

So in the end, there''d be a lot of people with sour expressions and hateful attitudes due to no sexxxxx OR there''d be a lot of dead people with hands not clasped on their chest, but glued to their own groins, with big smiles on their faces.....

As for how could....Hi Donnie, see you got a new name.

[howcould]

And to them, the disease has meaning. And only from meaning is there a cure.

[howcould]

I''ll tell ya why there are few cures: Because the people who should be curing it are asking you to. Who better to cure a disease than who it ails? Huh? And why can''t he or she? Because you say they can''t?

[toolmangler-2009]

Who would want to live forever (on Earth) not me. What do you do when you''ve done it all? If I can''t learn something new each day then what good is in''just'' living? If I can help somebody each day that is enough reason to live one more day and see if I can help someone else the next day.

[howcould]

Ethics was the thing that brought to the lime light morality. Now whats so ethical about that?

[b-easy63]

Science can''t even successfully treat chronic pain--they don''t even know what causes it. We pretend to know so much but as most who end up in the hospital or doctors office find out---we really know very little. Just a lot of hype to think we are smarter and know more than we really do. Check out the people who are in their 90s and 100s, I know quite a few (or knew quite a few) one thing they seemed to have in common was that most stayed away from hospitals, doctors and their drugs and did not eat out a lot.

[jjarden]

howcould...I''m starting to worry about you...You''re writing is completely Incoherent. I have a graduate degree in Philosophy, and I can understand Kant and Wittgenstein better than I can understand your writings.

[howcould]

Its not a talent to be a cynic. Its a curse. Its a representation bad of what would otherwise be nothing worth worrying about. Why do you wanna be everybody''s worry? Why do you wanna make it a philosophy? Its not a philosophy. Philosophy is a fluke.. A fancy word or two that some guy doing nothing had to end up doing.. inevitably.

You''re not smart. You''re not a genius. You''re not a representer of freedom and democracy. You''re not a freedom fighter. It isn''t even in your capability. The only thing you were ever capable of was changing a teevee channel.

[b-easy63]

They cure cancer, they''''ll probably solve aging, too. Seems to me to be a significant linkage between cancer and how our cells slowly "forget" their original blueprint over time when they replicate.

Posted by ibsteve2u at 11:10 AM : Nov 11, 2007

Science does NOT cure cancer. There are no cures yet. Science treats cancer successfully. They do it like a mechanic does a car: they cut it out, blast it with poison or radiation and hope the patient lives. To date, there are very few cures on the table, just treating and manipulating what is there.

People often die from the treatments, not the cancer. When or if they ever develop cures, they will not have to almost kill the patient or destroy large parts of their bodies and "hope" they live longer. As for eternal life--frankly--the present crop of humans (ie., we baby boomers) deserve to leave this world as fast as possible. We are a bane and user of our kids and grandkids'' legacies and we are so selfish that anything goes as long as we profit. That means using Social Security funds up is okay, depleting the ozone and polluting the world is okay, using up fossil fuels, spending away, outsourcing, wars and tortures is okay...if every a group deserved to be let go of for future generations, it is the boomers--what''s left of the world will breathe easier when we leave it in droves.

[howcould]

Ya wanna criticize everybody? Huh? Ya wanna make peace and prosperity a peckkkertrack? Mankind''s life will be very short.