Sure you do as anything beats dying, even if it's the misery of endlessly being bombarded by political annoyances from the current crop of political and editorial gadflies.
In the previous article, James Blish and Robert Heinlein are mentioned and they are top rank sci-fi writers from the fifties and sixties. Their speculations into immortality actually have quite a bit more substance than a Google executive's self-motivated soundbite.
It's almost certain there are research organizations working right now to discover whether there is any reality to anti-agathic drugs to prevent aging and death. Since you're wanting to live forever, do some of your own research and discover which ones are doing it. If their research sounds credible, put some fookin' money into it.
Robert Heinlein's approach was through a genetic study of long-lived individuals and you can bet that study, to some extent, is taking place already also. Bill Maris' complaint is there can't be sufficient information without public access to individual DNA genome maps.
And, um, li'l snowflake, what makes you think these genetic studies of long-lived individuals did not start centuries ago. It doesn't take sophisticated science to observe some people live much longer than others.
The trouble with genetic studies regarding immortality is the only way to determine if a genetic combination between two long-lived family lines actually makes for even longer-lived progeny ... is to wait for another century to discover if it worked. Think it through. There's no way to accelerate such a program or there would be no way to assure its efficacy.
It's conceivable that some (insert your desired conspiracy group) have been working on this type of life extension for centuries already because it would not take a wizard to observe the differential in longevity for people.
(Ed: that's sci-fi)
Well, it's more like wild-eyed field conspiracy theory but contemporary research will likely happen or is already happening.
Immortality presupposes the mind is capable of grasping a life span of centuries. It's all very well to design theoretical means for achieving the physical fact of immortality but the only ones to consider the psychological impact of it have been in sci-fi with James Blish doing an extraordinary study of specifically that.
Reading: "Cities in Flight" by James Blish. Many of Robert Heinlein's sci-fi novels feature "Lazarus Long" because he was so long-lived and that started with "Methuselah's Children."
Note: Heinlein leans more toward swashbuckling whereas Blish is a bit more heady about it. These books do not read like science textbooks but rather are extraordinary works which may well be interesting even when you don't take much sci-fi with your coffee in the morning.
Lazarus Long, was the third generation of an experiment in cross-breeding long-lived humans and they had already achieved a life span for two thousand years. Heinlein had to have been blown' some ganja for that one.
Question: how long did it take to breed a pure Arabian horse which breeds true and is significantly different from other horses.
Answer: millennia and they still work on it. The evolution of horses in relatively modern times is one of the most heavily-researched and longest-lasting genetic studies ever.
In the previous article, James Blish and Robert Heinlein are mentioned and they are top rank sci-fi writers from the fifties and sixties. Their speculations into immortality actually have quite a bit more substance than a Google executive's self-motivated soundbite.
It's almost certain there are research organizations working right now to discover whether there is any reality to anti-agathic drugs to prevent aging and death. Since you're wanting to live forever, do some of your own research and discover which ones are doing it. If their research sounds credible, put some fookin' money into it.
Robert Heinlein's approach was through a genetic study of long-lived individuals and you can bet that study, to some extent, is taking place already also. Bill Maris' complaint is there can't be sufficient information without public access to individual DNA genome maps.
And, um, li'l snowflake, what makes you think these genetic studies of long-lived individuals did not start centuries ago. It doesn't take sophisticated science to observe some people live much longer than others.
The trouble with genetic studies regarding immortality is the only way to determine if a genetic combination between two long-lived family lines actually makes for even longer-lived progeny ... is to wait for another century to discover if it worked. Think it through. There's no way to accelerate such a program or there would be no way to assure its efficacy.
It's conceivable that some (insert your desired conspiracy group) have been working on this type of life extension for centuries already because it would not take a wizard to observe the differential in longevity for people.
(Ed: that's sci-fi)
Well, it's more like wild-eyed field conspiracy theory but contemporary research will likely happen or is already happening.
Immortality presupposes the mind is capable of grasping a life span of centuries. It's all very well to design theoretical means for achieving the physical fact of immortality but the only ones to consider the psychological impact of it have been in sci-fi with James Blish doing an extraordinary study of specifically that.
Reading: "Cities in Flight" by James Blish. Many of Robert Heinlein's sci-fi novels feature "Lazarus Long" because he was so long-lived and that started with "Methuselah's Children."
Note: Heinlein leans more toward swashbuckling whereas Blish is a bit more heady about it. These books do not read like science textbooks but rather are extraordinary works which may well be interesting even when you don't take much sci-fi with your coffee in the morning.
Lazarus Long, was the third generation of an experiment in cross-breeding long-lived humans and they had already achieved a life span for two thousand years. Heinlein had to have been blown' some ganja for that one.
Question: how long did it take to breed a pure Arabian horse which breeds true and is significantly different from other horses.
Answer: millennia and they still work on it. The evolution of horses in relatively modern times is one of the most heavily-researched and longest-lasting genetic studies ever.
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