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Thu, Jul 26 2007

The First Person Who Will Live to Be 1000 Is Alive Right Now!

Seriously, I'm running out of ink.

Methuselah is going to be l-i-v-i-d.

According to the latest immortality research (oh, it is a field), the possibility of a person making it to their first millennium is not only possible – it’s almost guaranteed that such a person is already alive right now. Of course, philosophical debates are raging, but everyone agrees that perhaps something more reasonable – say, five additional years on the old lifespan – would be totally acceptable. But according to Aubrey de Grey, the spokesperson for the anti-aging movement, the moral debates are futile: “Whether they realise it or not, barring accidents and suicide, most people now 40 years or younger can expect to live for centuries.”

This is exciting news, right? Just think of all the wonderful things you can do with an extra 920 years or so! Would you travel everywhere, taste everything, try every job, take one exciting lover after another? How many languages might you learn? How wise and zenny we will all become!

Or…will boredom replace everything as the #1 cause of death? After your 700th trip to the dentist and your 840th “surprise” birthday party and your 3,459th wedding shower and your 75,000th church service, what possible magic could any ritual have to offer us? Will humans start doing even more stupid, selfish things well beyond their youthful years because they know they’ve got centuries to make up for it? Most people already fritter away their lives knowing full well that death is imminent. What will happen when we all start living to be 1,000?

Some predictions for adulthood in a world of millennial lifespans:

Highlander: the reality show version.

In the ongoing effort to foster an ownership society, banks will offer the affordable and convenient 350-year mortgage. The only trouble with this is that you will outlive your house.

No one will be scandalized by the May-December romances of rich geriatric crusties and lissome blond bunnies. The real scandal will be that guy with sixty ex-wives. I mean, thirty, yeah, everyone makes mistakes, but come on, sixty?

Teen girls will finally stop with the incessant BFF slinging because the prospect of the same BFF for, like, centuries is BSC. FR. OMG. RUFKM?!?

Instead of spending 3 years of your life waiting in lines, you have 42 years of waiting to look forward to.

Frying up the perfect omelet for your first breakfast with the new love: big deal. You’ve had what, like 500 years to practice? You’re gonna have to do more than that to impress. Even poaching loses its luster after the first 3 centuries.

Just think of how much fun is in store for you now that your marriage is for cennnnnnnnnnturies instead of decades! Till death do you part. Sweet.

You will perfect the art of housebreaking your puppy. Because you will have had 100 of them.

Fast food: what’s the point?

If you think mothers who dress like their daughters are annoying now, well…

There are only so many ways you can rearrange the living room. Think about it.

Do we really want to live for hundreds of years, or is it that we just wish we could be young our whole lives?

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  2. By Mike

    Living a 1,000 years would be cool if you could do it as others have said with a 20-25 year old body. Population growth would probably (guessing) not be that bad because the price tag on this bottle/pill of life would more than likely only allow for the rich to enjoy it.

    Private parties have gone into space through Russia’s space tourism program but at what price was that $20-28 million ?..I couldn’t afford it but some people can. I believe at first besides the guinni pigs that it is being tested on, once it is released to the public it will be astronomicly expensive just like a flight to a space station is today. That price in itself will keep population at bay until we have means to accomodate the growth explosion that a lower more affordable price would bring.

    I for one could use part of that 1,000 years to decifer Matthew Farrow’s gramatical & spelling errors in that long post I just read above OMG, my brain is fried after trying to make sense of that lol. I mean a few is ok I’m not perfect in my grammar either but my lord that took longer to read than the rest of the article and posts put together!

    Back to the subject, I think if & when this miracle drug does come out they still leave some room for nature to cleanse the world of those worthy of Darwin awards ;)…I for one could do without someone with enough smarts to strap a rocket to his back to find out how fast a human can go on rollerblades! lmao

  3. By Amoo

    And verily, you will find them (the Jews) the greediest of mankind for life and (even greedier) than those who – ascribe partners to Allâh (and do not believe in Resurrection – Magians, pagans, and idolaters, etc.). Everyone of them wishes that he could be given a life of a thousand years. But the grant of such life will not save him even a little from (due) punishment. And Allâh is All-Seer of what they do

  4. By Rutters1983

    I would love to see the future, and have always wished of having more time.

    People say there would be a population problem, why would there be all that needs to be said is, if you use this technology you can’t have children, which would mean you would be replacing your child’s life with your own and so on, until we reach the point where our space technology can take us to another planet that we could populate. I would be willing to wait to have children till we reached that point and I am sure other people would be willing to wait too.

    Also look at what Albert Einstein achieved in his life, imagine if his amazing mind lived for a 1000 years, just a thought.

  5. By angie ochoa

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  6. By carol hernandez aka baby loca

    well im at sku n board on my email so if u wanna hit me up u can if u want
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  7. By carol hernandez aka baby loca

    idk i dnt thnk i wuld want 2 live dat lng because i neva really lkd my lfe and i still dnt every1 practicually treats me lk sht!!!

  8. By mary lou

    accept CHRIST as your savior and live 1000 years and then some!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  9. By mary lou

    accept CHRIST as your savior and live 1000 years and then some!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YEAH!! even FOREVER!!!! do it today!!

  10. By Matthew Farrow

    I had possessed the answer using very fast powerful nanobots and a redone wireless command operating system with old Redhat.

    I was attacked at a nightclub by a pile of girls when I screamed the music was too noisey no one heard me scream. They placed a crystal on my eye and used the crystal to try to blind me and take my nano probes. If you do find out how
    to live forever someone from another demention will take it for their own benefit.

    Needless to say they slipped past the security guards in 1996 and took my stuff when I was out. It was weirder then hell. But yes you could make your own nanobots control them wireless bluetooth program them to rearrange the atoms you have to a younger genetic code and never die. But good ole Spock would probably say that great power and no discipline is foolish.
    One must have reason to live so long like a job like space travel or finding out how big this universe really is. Is it finite or infinite? I think it is finite. It has an exact mass and size. Finding other planets that earth people can live on. Or as a form or regenerating a human lifeform to meet with another alien society. Combinitng Bionantechnology and Chronogenics of frozen life or retrieval of the ice man and bringing him
    back to life. Or bringing back to life a mummy in egypt. But we still know very little about the workings of the bioelectrical electrical systems of the human soul. Science and religion has not figured out they are one in the same.

    We study life to come closer to the creator and the creator wants us as a race to understand science so we won’t have to depend on the creators help all the time. The creators of humanity want us to be more peaceful and more science will be told in pieces in our culture.

    And one day we will find out that time is nothing more then a matter of dementional atomic frequency. We still don’t understand gravity A and gravity B. That as we get larger in space time gets faster. As we look down to the atom it
    moves so fast that all of it is almost impossible to record. As we look up in space that it moves so slow you need a camera with a huge hard drive and fast forward to see time move. But as you get larger in mass you enter a different time frame because if you were the mass size of the entire size of the universe you would be able to travel across it in no time at all. The gravity A is our gravity on earth and gravity b is the gravity out in the larger masses of space. If you become attracted to Gravity A you stay here on earth. If you become attracted to gravity b you will see time move faster and you will enter the future. A high massive electro magnetic force surrounded an object will attract to the larger dementions of the universe and you will remain in your own time but outside the electromagnetic feild time is moving faster. One would almost be foolish to not take all the things that support life. Like an entire ecosystem being sent through a gravity b time field would be a good idea in case if you went to another time where everyone is worse off then you were on earth.

    Nanotechnology would buy us more time to find out the answers to science and religion. Which is a good thing. I tend to think that even if you spent only 100 years finding God is good but 1000 years you would be even happier knowing God let you live as long as our ancestors did in the Bible. It is almost a curse only living 100 years if your lucky. It is like the end times the devil is cursing all of humanity because of his struggle with God.

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  13. By emily

    Jan 11, 2008 at 7:32 am

    well I think everyone has a great point about the topic. I for one have always wanted to live to be 100 yrs +. My great grandmother lived to be 109 and just died from old age. Nothing was wronge with her what so ever. However, if i could live to be 1000 yrs old that would be even better for me. I just want to see where we go from here. I want to witness it all. Death is something i hate aswell as everyone does. It sucks just knowing that you have basically 40-50 yrs with loved ones. but really i think in a few hundred years we will be on mars and that would limilt the population if we were to live to be 1000. But, for extreme space I thinks thats way over 1000 yrs to come… REALLY I would say that the LAWS would be really bad. they would have to be. Could u imagine jails, prisons, and detition centers. I sure would hate to get life in prison! limits to children per household would probley have to be in affect to control population for the first 1000 yrs anyway….

    well if you read this would look familiar to you!!

  14. By emily

    i have a question . . . is that person frozen? ? ?

  15. By miranda

    well it doesn’t really make sense because when there kids they want to be adults and when there adults they want to be kids again. i think that is really weird. anyway it actually would be cool to see what have changed when you where a teen till 1000 years from now. on the other hand i think life is great just the way it is and it should be that way…well thats from my opinion! all i want to know is if you think do to? OMG, 1000 years old : 1

  16. By Liz

    Getting older is fine as long as you get to keep your health (and your mind) as well … we live in interesting times, technology is changing everyday and sometimes, it’s hard to believe that we won’t be around to see all the changes …. but living to 1000 – I don’t know…

  17. By bryan

    well I think everyone has a great point about the topic. I for one have always wanted to live to be 100 yrs +. My great grandmother lived to be 109 and just died from old age. Nothing was wronge with her what so ever. However, if i could live to be 1000 yrs old that would be even better for me. I just want to see where we go from here. I want to witness it all. Death is something i hate aswell as everyone does. It sucks just knowing that you have basically 40-50 yrs with loved ones. but really i think in a few hundred years we will be on mars and that would limilt the population if we were to live to be 1000. But, for extreme space I thinks thats way over 1000 yrs to come… REALLY I would say that the LAWS would be really bad. they would have to be. Could u imagine jails, prisons, and detition centers. I sure would hate to get life in prison! limits to children per household would probley have to be in affect to control population for the first 1000 yrs anyway….

  18. By poweroftime

    Guys I read most of your comments. You all bring valuable information to the table of life in general. Some of you want long life span, some don’t, isn’t that there prerogative? But to my point life is a tool used threwout space. Back sense Intelligent life became aware on earth. Humans created mythical creatures. These creations are exactly what humans want to become. For one reason or another humans created these mythical gods, to become less inferior so their brains can grow and bring them to life. Which by bring them to life they create their self. With Nano/biotechnology that is exactly what you are doing. This is the first step in becoming what you call a Class 2 Civilization. You still have a lot of work to do, but within another 200 yrs + or – 50 yrs you very well might become a Class 2 Civilization. I’m interested in how this will pan out, I will watch and see.

    But for now lets see where you can end up threw the Nano/Biotechnology era. The next step after that, I believe is your ultimate goal or destruction. Don’t know yet, But I will say this longer you live more there is to learn threw out space and time. Learning everything about galaxies doesn’t even begin to scratch the surface of the Universe. But learning this Universe does. Who knows even I might be surprised at what’s to come or maybe not.
    I will say one thing 1000 yrs is still short, 1 million yrs is also short, forever isn’t.

  19. By steve

    so does this bring pro choice or pro life into play again?

  20. By Sara

    Michael,

    But it looks so good on you! ;)