When asked about a comment he made that humans could eventually live to be 500 years old, Bill Maris, Google executive, said that was a “conservative” estimate. (RT: Key to longevity? Sharing DNA info is necessary to extend human life, Google exec says)
We mentioned the terror of failing to live forever in a previous article and immediately after saw this article. What do you know someone is selling the terror of failing to live forever already. (Blog: Some Have Gluten Intolerance / Some Cause it in Others)
Speaking of 'causing it in others:'
Check out the extraordinary genius in the article and try to discover anything, anywhere, which qualifies Maris to make such a statement, particularly given there's no-one else among those who really are qualified who makes a claim of living five hundred or more years.
We will save you the step. He has a four-year undergraduate degree in neuroscience from the College of Petticoat Junction or some such. We have never heard of such a study in a four-year degree as that level of specialization doesn't come until Masters or PhD work.
(Ed: he's no more qualified than Silas?)
Nope.
Check out Maris' qualifications to make such a statement and, what do you know, he studied neuroscience. This makes him a protege of Ben Carson so now we see a trend in neuroscience which manifests as neuroscientists, real or imagined, making ridiculous statements on the news and expecting they will not be challenged because of their immense genius.
Check out the extraordinary genius in the article and try to discover anything, anywhere, which qualifies Maris to make such a statement, particularly given there's no-one else among those who really are qualified who makes a claim of living five hundred or more years.
We will save you the step. He has a four-year undergraduate degree in neuroscience from the College of Petticoat Junction or some such. We have never heard of such a study in a four-year degree as that level of specialization doesn't come until Masters or PhD work.
(Ed: he's no more qualified than Silas?)
Nope.
Even smoking the finest reefer illegal America grows, we don't make claims of living five hundred years. When we read "Cities in Flight," we didn't consider it a documentary.
Bill Maris apparently based his claim not from anything in uni but rather from hybridizing Robert Heinlein and James Blish, sci-fi writers and quite good ones. Heinlein came up with Lazarus Long who lived for centuries and this was based on a genetic study of human lineage and then breeding humans from long-lived families to make humans which live even longer. So, that was the Heinlein method.
James Blish came up with anti-agathics and other types of drugs to prevent aging and death. This resulted in effective immortality in "Cities in Flight." Heinlein's proposal has some marginal credibility although achieving the result of a person who lives for centuries couldn't be achieved in less than centuries or how would you know it was even working. The Blish idea is more fantasy than science but likely something like this will eventually happen.
Bill Maris says, in effect, 'you may live forever' if you release your DNA for research study. How does he know this, you may wonder. Well ... he's a venture capitalist from Google and what does that tell you about what he will do with your genetic information.
(Ed: contribute it to Shirley Temple to make patty cakes together?)
Oh sure.
(Ed: sell it to the Fed for a clandestine program in eugenics?)
Google's history speaks for itself in this regard.
As mentioned previously, you need a crew of ethicists who have been recruited from science and also from theological study as these wild-eyed claims by people who really aren't qualified isn't tempered by any sense of reality. As with Ben Carson and many of the Presidential candidates, wild-eyed claims don't require a sense of reality and politics don't either ... nor does neuroscience, apparently.
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