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    Starwatcher: Ahem. Anyone here ever read the short story "Hothouse Flowers" by Michael Resnick? more »
    Klebert L. Hall: Let's hope they're wrong. Otherwise, expect several decades of enhanced bloodbath. -Kle. more »
    Valkyrie Ice: As a member of the Immortality Institute ( Imminst.org) allow me to add a little fact to this fluff piece. Fact: The cost of elderly care is the sing... more »
    Samantha Vick: The only way immortality, or near-immortality, is viable is if it comes in conjunction with the colonization of other planets. Soon enough we're going... more »
    TPL2008: If people lived indefinitely then the world would socially stagnate or collapse. Think about old social ideals generally die with the generations tha... more »
    MarianoCrivelli: @all: my hovercraft is full of eels! more »
    Platypus Man: See, I'm reading through Bruce Sterling's Holy Fire, which deals extensively with the idea of life extension and... it's not exactly a great world... ... more »
    Chuck: Unsurprisingly, the older I get, the more this interests me. Once they get this worked out, then they need to figure out how to reverse it, because I... more »
    SalParadise: I predict that extending the human lifespan will spell the death of scientific progress. Think about it: where do all of the revolutionary ideas come... more »
    Golem100: We'll know that immortality has been achieved when the government bans further research. more »
    VEXisGaY?: "Shouldn't we spend our resources feeding the hungry, rather than keeping people alive longer?" Well if people could control ones private parts and n... more »
    Golem100: Hmm, capture your Asphix and you can live forever. Bad thing is, you keep aging. [www.imdb.com] more »
    Dirk Anger: How will they keep everyone from developing cancer/heart disease? more »
    Bill-Lee: Will we live so long that we'll eventually metamorph into a bunch of cicadas? more »
    frankenstoen: What's the point of living forever if runaway global warming releases all of the methane frozen on the ocean floor and turns our planet into the ident... more »
  • #lifeexpectancy

    Near-Immortality Within the Next 20 Years? Life-Extension Scientists Hope So

    Researchers at the Maximum Life Foundation met recently to discuss their latest anti-aging findings. Their goal is to extend the human lifespan indefinitely by 2029... though it's not yet clear how that'll actually work. More »
  • #dystopia

    Life Expectancy Going Down in the United States