Personally I think that achievements that these expriments have the potential to achieve me think. Eventually living to 200 years old would be good, but only if my friends and family could get treated to live that long as well since it is very hard to go through life without them, especially if you manage to live as long as they speculate.
Another problem would be the concept of retirement. Surely what could be the longest humen lifespan expansion in history of mankind would bring a problem or two here wouldn’t you say?
What do you think? Are such goals worth exprimenting with? What effects - negative and psitive - do you think potentially living to 200 years old would bring around?
The ability to see more of the human history evolve before our eyes, being able to contribute to the progress of the human species for a longer time. That’s all I could think of at the time, but I usually get more when thinking clearly ( just woke up)
I think it would make for a pretty interesting statistical study if the only way one could die was if killed by some external event, i.e. a car accident etc. Surely sooner or latter the odds will kill you, even if your body never ages.
At least with the way things are now, we have a rough estimate of when we are going to die, probably around the 60-100 year old mark. If you were 20000 years old, I could imagine being pretty jumpy about the prospect of accidental death. We are currently used to death and expect it, whereas the 20000 year old wouldn’t be.
Even though it would pretty cool to see people living to be 20000 years old it wouldn’t be very pratical, but that varies on where you stop aging. But your mind, in a way, wont because no matter how young you are phycically your mind is still aging. I say this because there is still more and more information that your mind is being bombarded with and eventually you would stress your self to death well before the 20000 mark and the way the world is now I doubt that a person could make it to 200.
I belive one of the most profound affects of longevity would be those having to do with economics. For instance, say you wanted to start research into astroid mining. It would be next to impossible to find funding even though it is almost inevitable that humans will be one day mining astroids for metals. Despite the incredible potential gains it is difficult for people to invest thier money in such an area simply because the goals achieved would be so far beyond a human lifetime that it isn’t really worth waiting on the returns. However if you expected to be around for hundreds or possibly thousands of years the potential gains are now in your future. Think of all the longterm goals that would open for potential research. Think of all the technologies that would be enhanced and discovered by such work.
on the other hand, if there will be plenty of 200 year old farts around, your chances to measure up to them professionally before you turn one hundred would be minimal. thus, children would go to college for half a fucking century (not that it’s not already happening)
for how long you think you can stand cheap beer while trying to discuss whatever cutting edge subject with the co-ed you’re trying to bang ?
