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What's amazing is that 1) it took the scientific community this long to recognize that anti-aging therapies would be a huge boon for humanity, 2) that it would be hugely popular, desirable, and profitable, and 3) that they needed a study to figure this simple thing out. My 6 year old figured this out in twenty seconds once she found out that everyone gets old and dies. At first she got upset, and then she said "I don't want you to die!" Aside from being sweet, she's recognizing a valid point: dying sucks, and avoiding it is preferable to letting nature take its course.

I saw a documentary about the outcome of such an event:

http://www.youtube.com/embed/uVktcOQD1zA

ya boomers keep !@#4ing dreaming.

before you develop Everlasting Life, maybe you should first develop a way to actually pay for your lifestyle without borrowing on the future?

MershedPerturders says

ya boomers keep !@#4ing dreaming.

Newsflash. I don't think many of those investing in anti-aging expect the big breakthroughs to be in time to help us boomers. Delaying aging doesn't do much good if you start delaying it when you're already very very old.

Maybe the boomers kids though.

humanity says

MershedPerturders says

ya boomers keep !@#4ing dreaming.

Newsflash. I don't think many of those investing in anti-aging expect the big breakthroughs to be in time to help us boomers. Delaying aging doesn't do much good if you start delaying it when you're already very very old.

Maybe the boomers kids though.

first is major world calamity and the complete destruction of california.

If people had more time to live their lives they might choose to put off procreation and work on improving themselves first. Think of the difference if your time allotted for higher education or job training could be a decade without repercussions in later plans for family. Or think of the increased productivity we'd see if the most experienced people weren't also the most infirm and frail and likely to retire. It would be a giant boon to humanity of we were to double human lifespan. Think of what an Einstein or a Faraday could accomplish with double or triple their productive years! It would revolutionize society, and there would be huge changes. Children would be far more rare. I expect that anti-aging would come with a price tag of procreation control.

we have increased the average lifespan and all it did was increase the level of debauchery, hipsterism, and waste. human tendencies.

MershedPerturders says

first is major world calamity and the complete destruction of california.

What if they have it backwards?

MershedPerturders says

we have increased the average lifespan and all it did was increase the level of debauchery, hipsterism, and waste. human tendencies.

Yes. Instead of starting a family at 17 and working hard for the rest of their lives, the modern spoiled first worlders have been extending their adolescence, their education years, and overall enjoying a longer period of youth. It's criminal.