i read in livescience.com that in about 25 years from now, they will invent something that will extend lives from aging.
2006-12-26 08:07:20 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
Pros:
Imagine the things you could do! The people you could meet, the places you could go, the things you could see. Imagine everything you could get done. You could literally change the entire world if you had enough time. You could learn so much, hundreds of languages, and you would most likely know the very secrets of thew universe. You could become president, many times, governor, sentator, prime justice, police officer, scientist, actor, artist, and on and on. You could try everything. Taste everything. The possiblities are beyond imagination!
Cons:
Life might not be as happy any longer. It might become just another thing, and not considered as precious as it is today. We would take even more for granted. And then imagine the overcrowding issues (more immigration, less resources, billions and billions of old old old people). The world would fall into literal collapse. The farms would not be able to produce enough for all the mouths to feed (they already can't). Imagine the amount of people in the big cities. Imagine all the jerks and people you hate living forever and ever, always causing anger where ever they go. Imagine the eternity-long wars and famines.
Also, people would be incredibly, incredibly ugly after so long of a time.
Also, imagine president BUSH living forever and ever, destroying this country till the end of time. Imagine people like Hitler. Imagine the absolute horror.
I hope that if they find it, they instantly destroy it or give it only to those who deserve it (those good people in the world who actually make other lives happy).
I hope for the rest of the world to come that they never find the correct way to make it work (remember, the first people to buy the technology would be the rich, only to be richer, and the evil, to cause more terror).
2006-12-26 08:34:05 · answer #1 · answered by Delacroix 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
unfortunately for the people at livescience, they (like most of us mortals) are very poor at knowing the future.
This has been said for many decades now.
To some degree, there's some truth to it, but it isn't like it is anything that's news to anyone.
Advances in technology and modern medical science have been extending man's life-expectancy for centuries, and this past and current centuries are no different.
If someone in the 1950's said that by the 1980's men would live an average of 20 years longer than they did in the late 19th century, that would not have been anything clairvoyant. Statistics were already showing that men were living longer and longer, so extrapolating it into the future wasn't anything you needed a psychic for (as if they could see the future anyhow).
To suggest that, in particular, right at the 25-years-from-now mark there will be any landmark breakthrough is not something they can know for sure, or even hazard much of an educated guess.
They could be right (by chance), but a broken clock is right twice a day as well.
God sets the limits of our days and allows the medical breakthroughs that extend our lifetimes, when He chooses to do so (allow breakthroughs).
Living forever would be pretty boring if it wasn't done the way God intended for it to happen (in Heaven).
There will be no living forever on this earth in its present condition (God makes that clear in the Bible).
He has written down how this world will end and after that He will create a new Heaven and a new Earth on which people will live forever.
But living forever can only be satisfying and happy if it is done with God (and the proper worship of God) as the center and the purpose of that existence.
good luck and God bless you.
2006-12-26 08:34:38 · answer #2 · answered by Wayne A 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Just finished an article on that in, " The Best Science and Nature Writing, 2006 " The cons are quite varied, with the aging holding a great financial and power advantage. Read the article. It is called, " The Coming Death Shortage ", by Charles C. Mann. A recent article in the Atlantic Monthly.
2006-12-26 08:35:49 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, the pros are that geriatrics doctors can make a fortune off of people that live longer or forever, and you can distribute your wisdom and knowledge to children, grandchildren, great grandchildren, etc.
The cons are that most anyone more than 50 years younger than you usually just wishes you would shut up, die, and give them your money... and that scientific advances that increase our life span so far have not been able to prevent the natural decline in our mental and physical abilities.
Most of us dream of being young forever. So far, science is only able to ensure that we can be old forever.
2006-12-26 08:35:42 · answer #4 · answered by ye_river_xiv 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like a plan. It is possible though that only the physical portion of aging will be stopped, if so what about the mind. No use having the body of a 25 year old if your totally senile.
2006-12-26 08:25:46 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Think about the problems that could pose. The fight for resources, food, living space, energy, etc, etc. These would only be magnified if people stopped dying from old age, could the earth support a population explosion? It could lead to the destruction of the human race.
2006-12-26 08:16:00 · answer #6 · answered by crazyhorse19682003 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The only advantage to living longer is that we get to enjoy life on earth a wee bit longer before we spend eternity with Christ in Heaven.
2006-12-26 08:09:50 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋