I just finished reading Lost City and was intrigued by the villain's obessesion to be young and live forever. I know I'm not getting any younger and certainly won't live forever (not here anyway), but none the less, it was interesting. To get to the point, I was in the grocery store today waiting for a perscription and I picked up Popular Science because it was the same one Jet-Doctor mentioned with the Moller Sky Car. I started reading an article about this Computer Scientist from Cambridge University named Aubrey de Grey whose goal in life is just that, anti-aging. Here is an excerpt from that article...
[de Grey] proposes to tinker with the essential biochemical pathways that drive the aging process. De Grey contends that we know enough to intelligently map out a program of anti-aging intervention research such that sometime in the next 100 years, and quite possibly much sooner, the average human life span may be 5,000 years, a figure brought short of outright immortality by the small number of people who will die from non-age-related diseases and everybody else who, given the boggling amount of time available to them on the planet, will eventually do something unlucky or stupid like walk in front of a moving rocket car. In de Grey time, the 400-year span between Shakespeare’s England and today would be but the blink of an eye.
For the rest of the article, go to
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/medicine/arti...,929447,00.htmlI just thought it was a neat parallel to a fictional story coupled with real life.
So move over Racine Fauchard, you have competition! Oh wait she's dead. :lol:
I have the theme from the Twilight Zone playing in my head! yike: