Telomerase

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Is it possible for humans to live to be a thousand years or longer physically? See Telomerase.org and look it up on your search engines. How would you like to live forever along with everyone else?

It would get crowded. I don't like crowded places.

Not to mention that telomerase levels are elevated in cancer cells.

Food would run out, medical prices would spike, space would be limited to an extreme, human life would lose meaning (the brevity gives it value)

This would probably end human society.

Not to mention that high telomerase levels do not equal long life necessarily. What about the rest of your genes. They'd get so f***ed up from raidation and mutagenic exposure that you'd die of cancer anyway, or any number of pathologies.....

Face it, there is no Fountain of Youth.

Oh I want there to be, I'm just realistic about what can be done.

Personally, I think it would be better to apply more efforts towards making the lives we have more bearable than to try extending them much more than they already are. It seems kind of awful to me that some people want to live a couple of hundred years or so and people in other countries can't even make it past their 1st birthday.

When humanity ascends to this existence, before or after, the technological singularity(intelligence explosion) will have transpired. What this means is that anything will be possible. Food is energy and energy can be supplemented. Money as we know it will not exist. The environment will be in all effects, infinite. The meaning of life is what we believe it to be. Believe what you will.