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1631789 No.1631789 [Reply] [Original]

Hey /sci/

I was just watching something about Aubrey De Grey earlier and it struck me how close we are to perhaps developing a cure for aging.

What does /sci/ think about Aubrey's proposed method of doing this?

>> No.1631796
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More like Chris Adler!

>> No.1631800
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More like Brad Pitt!

>> No.1631803

Hes got the basic ideas down,but as we all know,thats really no indication of how long these problems will take to solve,when he was first brought into the limelight people mocked him,but since the methusala mouse prize and his new companies,hes seems to be making progress.

hes got some good ideas,i think hes a little optomistic though,sciences is speeding up,but some big problems that have been around for a while,and theres no end in sight,just look at the amount of money thats poored into cancer reasearch by comparison to other fields,and thats moving hella slowly.

>> No.1631804

I'm for it.

Theories freldis.

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>>1631789
>>1631796
I lol'd. Bump for more intrest!

>> No.1631809

Needs moar funding.

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1631810

More like Jon Stewart!

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As this guy, he chose poorly.

>> No.1631815

>how close we are to perhaps developing a cure for aging

Close? AFAIK, we got nothing but some theory a few very vocal mad scientists scribbled on a napkin.

>> No.1631832

I think we are close to that escape age limit velocity thing he talked about.

He doesn't have to cure aging now for us to reap the benefits. He only has to start to slow it down and keep making progress.

They've already discovered a few ways to increase your lifespan but most people won't go to those lengths to prolong their life.

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Rasputin report in

>> No.1631841

His bridge concept is elegant. It's not a matter of a single treatment giving you indefinite lifespan, but a series of treatments over time that enable you to reach new and better ones as they're developed.

I've always liked it.

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1631849

>my decapitated face when i get the cure but then get run over by a car as i leave the clinic

i have bad luck

>> No.1631851

Dat beard!

>> No.1631855

>>1631841

This. You don't have to find a cure right now in order to live forever, you just have to find ways to extend your life long enough to reach that point.

Or if it comes down to it, I'll be frozen until they can unfreeze and fix me.

>> No.1631871

>>1631809
>>1631809
This.

>> No.1631903

Bitches don't know about living forever

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>>1631903
Word.

>> No.1631992

>>1631789

It's a clever idea.

And it's not really a cure it's more of an attempt to continously repair the damage caused by aging.

>> No.1632289

>>1631957
Dat tache!

>> No.1632675
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1632675

he is trying to establish an image of himself to make profit probably, or he likes to show his face to as many as possible people, or he likes to be .... whatever it s for his own sake, very probably

>> No.1632699

Beard of the year, all years.

Fuck I must grow that.

>> No.1632716

Odd, Wikipedia says he got a BS in computer science from Cambridge.

Is he an autodidact scientist?

>> No.1632726

>>1631789
Why is this guy still around. His degree is in comp-sci not biology, he's a quack who suckers people with a fear of mortality into giving him money. Twenty years he's been claiming to be on the road to "curing" aging, but he has never bothered to do anything remotely resembling lab work or clinical research.

>> No.1632799

>>1632716

I don't particularly care if he's an autodidact scientist as long as he's got his shit straight. The world needs more visionaries like him.

Although, wether or not he's onto something, I'm not qualified to have an opinion on.

Also, dat beard.

>> No.1632814

He looks like Karl Marx
Maybe he is Karl Marx and he already found a way to live forever

>> No.1632817

>>1632716
>BS in computer science
That explains the beard

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1632825

this is quakery!

>> No.1632828

>>1632814

He looks like Rasputin more than Marx.

Now we know why Rasputin could never die!

>> No.1632888

For those who are ignorant of this man.

http://www.ted.com/talks/aubrey_de_grey_says_we_can_avoid_aging.html

If his work is successful, I say we periodically capture and send random women to his doorstep for him to impregnate. His will impregnate numerous women every week. What does /sci/ think of this?

>> No.1633120

>>1632888

FUND IT.