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The Life Scientists
Posted by attilachordash on February 12, 2008
First of all: thanks to the commenters/scientists (the online flash mobbers) for being the most efficient part of the science blogosphere! Although the paper was retracted from the online version of Proteomics, you can still make historical screenshots on the PubMed version.
Blogosphere links in chronological order: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by attilachordash on February 12, 2008
Thanks to Kevin, you can now watch the video too:
Colbert: “But if people lived to be a 1000 years old won’t that kill any ability for humans to take risks cause if I’ve known I lived to be a 1000 I am not going to cross the street because you can’t cure being hit by a bus.”
Aubrey: “Well, you’ll be able to get your grandmother to help you to cross the street.”
That is a witty (and the same time, deep) answer indeed: People usually help their grandmother to cross the street but in a many generational “rejuvenated” world people will be able to take care of their descendants to the same extent as they are able to take care of their ascendants today. Moreover, it has something to do with the philosophical question of intergenerational justice: Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Aubrey de Grey, Mprize, SENS, USA, celebrity, life extension, longevity, partial immortalisation, partial immortalization, video | Leave a Comment »
