Scientists have already increased the lifespan of rats in experiments, and are saying that similar drugs could increase the average life span of a human being by about 30% in the very near future.

Our cells replicate and die, day after day, throughout our entire lives. Unfortunately, as we continue to age, the replicated cells become less accurate copies, less efficient in the way that they work.

If scientists can slow down this process, or prevent cell deterioration all together, humans could live for extremely long periods of time. Cell deterioration is a big factor in the prevalence of numerous diseases and afflictions that effect us as we age. Along with this increase in life span, would likely come an increase in health.

There are also plenty of scientific outlets (like theNational Science Foundation) who profess that humans may have the ability to upload their conciousness to computers before this century is up. (A $1 computer in 2030 is expected to have the processing power of a human brain.)

Science is expanding at exponential rates. Scientists will discover more in the next 10 years than they have in the last 50.

I don't think it's a question that humans will continue to live longer and longer lives. But do you believe that human beings will ever live for multiple centuries?

Do you believe that humans (in the distant distant distant distant future) will live forever?

[QUOTE="yarou1000"][QUOTE="WhiteSnake5000"]It is publicly funded health care.WhiteSnake5000

Canada officially pulled out of the recession a few weeks ago.

I was kind of wondering this. Unless I heard wrong, Christopher told whatshisface that he could only reverse the effects of the mutation if it was done very soon. In fact (again, IIRC) he said that they were running out of time.

But then he says that he'll return in 3 years to fix him up, even after he's fully mutated?

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Global warming kills, I tell ya.

its_me_

You know that the scientists who study global warming have predicted that it would lead to cooling in many areas, right?

You really can't keep your mouth shut can you? You're on a mission tonight. Global warming is being used as a political tool, and the people who believe so strongly in its presence have become a fascist sect of society...ridiculing any skepticism, silencing opposition, burying counter-evidence, and employing massive amounts of scare tactics so that companies like General Electric, who fund their campaigns and their comfortable living, can have a monopoly on our lives. Personally, i don't care whether global warming is a reality or not, because I'm an environmentally-conscious person anyway. Everyone should take care of the Earth. However, I'm not going to have my cost of living skyrocket, and have to drastically increase expenses for myself and my family because of somebody's political and fiscal agenda. Cap and trade doesn't solve any problems.

Yeah, what was I thinking. God forbid I discuss something on a discussion forum.

You cracked a joke about how it's called global warming and yet some regions of the world are cooler than usual. I informed you that cooling is predicted by the scientists studying the process.

All of a sudden you try to turn it into a politcal discussion. Apparently there's some sort of hidden message in my last comment. Apparently I told you to start buying energy star rated appliances (good idea btw).

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kinda cold for June this year... July it rained a lot.

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In upstate NY, we had one of the wettest Julys on record and it was unseasonably cool.vgm007

Global warming kills, I tell ya.

You know that the scientists who study global warming have predicted that it would lead to cooling in many areas, right?

Funny that you ask. 531 forrest fires in my area the last time I checked. Hail, mad lightning storms (20,000 lightning bolts in the space of a couple hours), very windy, lots of rain.

Right now it's just really smoky though.