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RE: I want to live forever ... - 8/12/2011 3:48:38 AM   
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Well, yanno, curing diseases and stopping the aging process are not quite the same thing...


True.  I'm waiting on some result of some of the research in that area as well.  I think we are on the horizon of some pretty interesting results.


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You could end up looking a walking raisin.

Well, primarily if you worshiped the sun when you were young.

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RE: I want to live forever ... - 8/12/2011 3:49:27 AM   
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Status: offline 		They've only treated 3 patients with it, Firm. It's a bit soon to get excited.

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RE: I want to live forever ... - 8/12/2011 3:57:07 AM   
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Live fast, die young, leave a nice corpse.


That was my motto too ;-) I turned 45 on Monday though...so now it's still live fast (cause I do) die when I die and leave a corpse as good looking as I can. I'm trying my best. .



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RE: I want to live forever ... - 8/12/2011 6:09:36 AM   
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Status: offline 		i don't think i'd want to live forever. i think it would all just get very tiring. imagine, after so many years, what it would take to get you excited about anything? when you've already been there and done that for 200 years with no end in sight? =p 

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RE: I want to live forever ... - 8/12/2011 6:27:22 AM   
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Live fast, die young, leave a nice corpse.


Yeah. I ran with that motto as a kid. Buried a lot of good friends young, and most left smoking corpses and closed casket funerals and never ever knew what they were missing by dying so early. Heck, even Neil Young sneers at his inanity of his "Better to burn out than fade away" line.
Life is sweet. Life is precious. Live it to the fullest, laugh, love, taste something sweet, kiss the wind.
Me" I'd like to live forever, but only if I had my health. I wouldn't wanna be some 100 year old cripple, trapped in the dying husk of a body, slowly going insane. Course, maybe this mentality is based on watching loved ones die from Alzheimers, just about the cruelest thing I've ever seen.
Now if I could go all Lestat...:-)


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RE: I want to live forever ... - 8/12/2011 6:28:56 AM   
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Status: offline 		^^ gaaaaah i agree with that post, 100%
(actually, i guess 98%, since i don't really want to live forever. =p)


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RE: I want to live forever ... - 8/12/2011 9:29:45 AM   
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don't you think there a few to many of us already?

Just cause there's too many of you doesn't mean there's too many of Me.

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RE: I want to live forever ... - 8/12/2011 9:55:24 AM   
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RE: I want to live forever ... - 8/12/2011 10:00:54 AM   
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I just hope I live long enough to live forever.

Well, yanno, curing diseases and stopping the aging process are not quite the same thing...

You could end up looking a walking raisin.

K.



That and brain cells, so you could not only end up looking like a raisin but also having the mental abilities of one.

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RE: I want to live forever ... - 8/12/2011 10:01:41 AM   
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I just hope I live long enough to live forever.

Well, yanno, curing diseases and stopping the aging process are not quite the same thing...

You could end up looking a walking raisin.

K.



That and brain cells, so you could not only end up looking like a raisin but also having the mental abilities of one.

He could just go join the bunch in P & R full time and noone would know the difference


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RE: I want to live forever ... - 8/12/2011 10:06:57 AM   
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He could just go join the bunch in P & R full time and noone would know the difference



You know, if I was a true masochist, I could really have a field day being there...

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RE: I want to live forever ... - 8/12/2011 10:07:34 AM   
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_Qe6yDz1HI


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RE: I want to live forever ... - 8/12/2011 10:16:03 AM   
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Status: offline 		Live FOREVER? In the same body? Or at all? No thanks. Once my parents are gone, and I have no family responsibilities, it's a crapshoot whether I will hang around any longer myself.

And yes, there are FAR too many of us, whatever happened to zero population growth?

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RE: I want to live forever ... - 8/12/2011 10:28:46 AM   
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ORIGINAL: littlewonder

everytime I hear about living forever I think of this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_Qe6yDz1HI



That song has been playing through my mind since I saw the title thread!

However, this is what I've been thinking about, regarding the question of what IF we couldn't die?



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RE: I want to live forever ... - 8/12/2011 10:48:03 AM   
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He could just go join the bunch in P & R full time and noone would know the difference




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RE: I want to live forever ... - 8/12/2011 10:53:30 AM   
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anything else is a virus.

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RE: I want to live forever ... - 8/12/2011 11:07:32 AM   
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Status: offline 		Anyone ever hear of the "pixie dust" that helped a man regrow his finger?

He was given the "dust" by Dr Stephen Badylak from the University of Pittsburgh, and he applied it as instructed, and his cut off finger grew completely back.

Dr Badylak didn't seek publicity, and made no claims.  Some media outlets said it was a fake.

But not anymore.  He's done it a few more times, and according to an article I read a couple of months ago, is much further along, and can regrow any body part in a human being.

He has defense contracts right now.

Firm

edited to add: Hell, maybe it was Alan R. Spievack.  I've got to find the article again.

Hell, it was both of them:

A Doctor, a Pig, and a Magical Pixie Dust That Could Regrow Fingers



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RE: I want to live forever ... - 8/12/2011 11:14:16 AM   
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Anyone ever hear of the "pixie dust" that helped a man regrow his finger?

He was given the "dust" by Dr Stephen Badylak from the University of Pittsburgh, and he applied it as instructed, and his cut off finger grew completely back.

Dr Badylak didn't seek publicity, and made no claims.  Some media outlets said it was a fake.

But not anymore.  He's done it a few more times, and according to an article I read a couple of months ago, is much further along, and can regrow any body part in a human being.

He has defense contracts right now.

Firm


There's a fortune in it if it will make existing parts larger. Just sayin.

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RE: I want to live forever ... - 8/12/2011 12:25:32 PM   
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And if the rate of medical advances continue, it may be possible.

Just one astounding recent discovery:

Possible progress in medicine
Tyler Cowen on August 10, 2011


    …in a development that could transform how viral infections are treated, a team of researchers at MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory has designed a drug that can identify cells that have been infected by any type of virus, then kill those cells to terminate the infection.

   …In a paper published July 27 in the journal PLoS One, the researchers tested their drug against 15 viruses, and found it was effective against all of them — including rhinoviruses that cause the common cold, H1N1 influenza, a stomach virus, a polio virus, dengue fever and several other types of hemorrhagic fever.

   The drug works by targeting a type of RNA produced only in cells that have been infected by viruses. “In theory, it should work against all viruses,” says Todd Rider…


A Press Release on the subject:
New drug could cure nearly any viral infection Researchers at MIT’s Lincoln Lab have developed technology that may someday cure the common cold, influenza and other ailments.
Anne Trafton, MIT News Office

Most bacterial infections can be treated with antibiotics such as penicillin, discovered decades ago. However, such drugs are useless against viral infections, including influenza, the common cold, and deadly hemorrhagic fevers such as Ebola.

Now, in a development that could transform how viral infections are treated, a team of researchers at MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory has designed a drug that can identify cells that have been infected by any type of virus, then kill those cells to terminate the infection.

I just hope I live long enough to live forever.

Firm



there can only be one

look towards the quickening mortal

my name is connor lol

connor mcloud from highlander

or connor from termynator

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