/sci/ - Science & Math

150 lowest estimate
over 500 highest estimate
depends on scientific breakthroughs

You'll get hit by a bus tomorrow.

Until age 23 because of 2012.

>>1389183

...No.

This.

It's all dependent on how much stupid shit you do...

A.K.A. Don't run in front of buses
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>>1389182

depends if you get ill, hit by a car or any other fatal accident

Assuming you won't die in a car accident or some shiet, you may actualy get to live forever. I predict 2060 is the year we'll be able to cross off 'death' from the dictionary.

>>1389192
You don't believe that you could live to be at least 150 years old?

You realize that there are people alive today who were born in the 1800s, right?

If you make it to 50 which is about a 90% chance then you will make it to the singularity and the expected lifespan will go up more than 1 year per year, so somewhere between 300 and 4000 years.

Nobody will live to see past the 21st century.

>>1389197

The body isn't made to live to 150.

Aging alone, not considering disease or fitness, will kill most people in their 90s.

If we figure out how to stop cellular senescence then you can live indefinitely.

>>1389192

Bitches dont kno bout mah Gene Therapies, Stem Cell Therapies and Nanomediciene

It doesn't seem to be too difficult to live to 100, centenarians are the fastest-growing age group in the US and those who make it there tend to be pretty spry. Making it to 110 and beyond seems to require really good genes. Nobody's made it much past 120, seems to be the absolute maximum at the moment.

60 more years

>>1389194
>A.K.A. Don't run in front of buses
>Also Known As Don't run in front of buses
>Also Knows As

>>1389207

The body is a few steps away from regeneration on demand

>>1389207
You realize that people never actually die from old age, right?

It's always because of some disease.

>>1389211
>Doesn't see what you did there?

About three years and two months, until you get mauled by a bus while reaching for your car keys from under your car.

>>1389218

But old age causes disorders a young person wouldn't have.

Saying people don't die from old age is like saying people don't die from AIDS.

>>1389205
Hahaha, oh wow. It's already fucking 2010 and we have a bunch of shitty 13-15 year olds all around 4chan during summer. The statistical chance that nobody in our generation could survive another 91 years is absolutely ridiculous. The odds say you're full of shit.

ITT: people unable to accept their mortality

>>1389224
No, aging just allows the body to become more easily afflicted with disease. The virus harming the body does the damage.

>>1389192
Bro, there's already medicines that double the human lifespan. They're just still being tested on.

>>1389229
>he actually thinks civilization will stick around long enough to keep everyone alive

>>1389237

Yes. But you don't say an AIDS patient died from a cold. You say he died from AIDS.

It's redundant semantics.

>>1389246

>MY RAGING ANGST

>>1389224
>But old age causes disorders a young person wouldn't have.
Like what?

Most bodily functions will be able to be mechanized allowing you to live indefinitely. Prosthetic limbs, genetically/mechanically engineered organs, nanomachine white cells etc. could bypass the effects of senescence.

If we can mechanize the body and at the very least maintain the human brain then I don't see why we can't live forever.

>>1389237

Yes. But you don't say an AIDS patient died from a cold. You say he died from AIDS.

It's redundant semantics.

>>1389246

>MY RAGING ANGST

>>1389247

No. There aren't.

>>1389196
No amount of scientific breakthrough is going to discard the definition for biological death.

It doesn't matter it is mostly genetics.
Much like height.
You can do things to improve your life length but a lot of it depends on genetics.

>>1389263
>MY RAGING ANGST
Mocking me won't prevent it from happening, brah.

>>1389263
>No. There aren't.
You really don't even bother doing reading into scientific research, do you?

>>1389218
what?

>>1389274

It won't happen. Diplomatic relations between world powers are better now than they ever have been in history.

The only thing that stands to end civilization is a natural disaster, and that isn't more likely now than any other point in time.

>>1389310

I tend to take popsci stories on cure-all pills printed weekly in tabloids with a grain of salt.

>>1389310
im not the guy who disagreed with you, but i am curious. could you provide links to these studies?

>>1389258

How would the technology deal with internal problems in the brain, such as tumors or aneurysms?

>>1389378
as we deal with them now; surgery

i wouldnt bet past 100 op having said that you never know. aging itself is a disease and theres plenty research being done into it.

the idea is that lots of little things together cause ageing so research is being done to reverse small damage that accumulates.

As of 2003, the average remaining life expectancy of a 21 year old person is 58.4 years. But it increases slightly for each year lived. Of course, the advent of life-extension technology will change it.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/be/Excerpt_from_CDC_2003_Table_1.png

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