Nobel Prize in Medicine So if the body production of telomerase can be stabilized, one can achieve immortality. That could be fun, of course the reproduction would have to be suspended and only reactivated to replace accidental deaths. Finally, everyone will be able to make a MMO alone now! Even if it takes a few hundred years, it will be finished! [lol] [Edited by - LeChuckIsBack on October 8, 2009 2:10:24 PM]

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So if the body production of telomerase can be stabilized, one can achieve immortality.

And if my grandma had testicles, she'd be my grandpa.

I would like to be immortal, if we were in Middle-earth, but not here. I hope this civilization collapses, before we invent it. God I hope it...

Yeah, I'm not seeing this happening either, special enzyme or not. Besides, who is to say that we wouldn't go mental after too long anyway...

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Besides, who is to say that we wouldn't go mental after too long anyway...

Can we safely claim to not be mental already?

Those who fear the consequences of immortality are free to drop dead and let the rest of us experiment with it.

:)

I predict that if immortality actually happens the suicide rate will go up.

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I predict that if immortality actually happens the suicide rate will go up.

heh. He was so young! Why did he commit suicide at the age of 560!

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I would like to be immortal, if we were in Middle-earth, but not here. I hope this civilization collapses, before we invent it. God I hope it...

If you want to collapse, be my guest. But don't take civilization with you kthxbye.

Get ready for the next health food buzz word.

"Eat more eggs! They produce extra telemeres!"
"Don't drink milk! It stifles telemere production."

In 50 years when we are doing genetic engineering regularly, they will isolate the enzyme producing gene and everyone will be altered to age slower. How about dogs that are bred to live 40 years (in people years).