Achieve Imortality
That would be great, you could learn every single language in the world become a kung fu master, the possibilities are endless. Only drawback would be that you may get fed up off looking at yourself in the mirror after several million years.
(bROKEN aRROW PUA HVI Master, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 14:29, 8 replies)

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There's several people who're currently suggesting that age is a curable illness, and some who think that there's an obligation to cure it. (See, for example, John Harris' Enhancing Evolution.) Immortality has a certain intellectual respectability.

Meanwhile, Steven Austad (University of Texas) has pointed out that immortality is not the same as invulnerability. On the supposition that 11-year-olds have avoided the illnesses of childhood, and not yet become vulnerable to the illnesses of old age, he reckons that "immortals" would die at about the rate of 11-year-olds today; extrapolating from that death rate gives a death rate for immortal adults. He ends up with the conclusion that immortals would have an average life expectancy of around 1200 years, with about one in a thousand reaching 10,000 years - about the rate at which people live to be 100 today.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 14:45, closed)

Alas...
He does not take into account other social factors (death by violence or non biological cause), which would up the death rate of immortals by a large factor.

It's a good baseline, but it's only half the story.
( DukeEuphoria Comes highly reccomended, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 14:55, closed)

I agree there is no massive detail
But the difference between invulnerability and imortality is discussed.
(bROKEN aRROW PUA HVI Master, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 15:00, closed)

Um... no.
He does take those into account.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 17:04, closed)

Interesting stuff Enzyme
It makes the mind boggle, especially as the resources on this planet are finite and if this did happen, which is plausible, then resourcing issues will be insane. It wouldn't surprise me if they were half way there in slowing down the age process dramatically but why would they want to make it generally available. Unless of course the right to breed was abolished, or we discover technology that would allow us to ruin, *ahem* I mean discover new planets.
(bROKEN aRROW PUA HVI Master, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 14:58, closed)

Oh gods above
Would that I had the power to abolish the right to breed.

I'd be out there right now with my abolishing stick.
( DukeEuphoria Comes highly reccomended, Fri 15 Oct 2010, 11:18, closed)

Tough luck, the job's mine.
THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE!
( Blind Meach Cautiously optimistic, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 15:37, closed)

hehe!
You win Connor
(bROKEN aRROW PUA HVI Master, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 16:05, closed)