Get some melanin that's the best way to stay looking young. And besides this global warming scenario coming, drugs won't do you any good against that extra ultraviolet radiation, only the real thing will do.

wetworker

environmental disaster

SlinkyDink

@Rabid Penguin: considering we live twice as long as people a few lifetimes ago today, and they were living twice as long as people in the classical ages, and they were living twice what cavemen were living, id say its a process thats ongoing.

@rimshot515: "it would be a psycological disorder to not want to exist"no it wouldnt. you must be young, and unexposed to death close to you. learning to accept death is something most people have learned since the dawn of man, most being everyone who wasnt killed in some horrible violent way. the people that CANT let go are the ones who have a disorder. death is as natural a thing as eating, it just doesnt happen as often. its going to happen.

personally this development scares the shit out of me. i dont know how effective it is, or if it just keeps you looking good for longer within the same lifespan. but its yet another drug, this time on a whole new level, that the rich west will have while the rest of the world wont. now youve got the prospect of the rich, already privileged with access to healthcare and things like plastic surgery, essentially an overclass, with the prospect now of living longer than everyone else as well. consolidating even more resources under themselves. developing even more neuroses over success and virility.

red

I can't imagine how unhealthy this must be. But I guess this is just another way the modern world is working towards being like Futurama in 3000. We're already landing on other planets, and now we've got people living to 150 and giant flying evil brains right around the corner.

videoCWK

did she just get older? i thought i saw 40 the first time.. damnnnnnn

killarclown

"With a name like Methusinex, it's got to be GOOD!"

MagnoliaBoy

What if you stop taking the drug? Would you go back to dying naturally? That's one hell of a selling point :

"Methusinex : Stop buying and you start dying"

I now own the copyright on Methusinex.

zaron3d

is that Meg Ryan?

lastpulse

Come to think of it... if one of the side effects happens to be no more orgasms...
Trust me, it won't sell well.

aec007

@kOtic:

Seconded.

dead_red_eyes

@ackthbbft: I think you're a crazy person.

Rabid Penguin

@Hiphopopotamus: God is all powerful. He does have the capability to laugh at all the extinct animals as well as man, if He so chooses.

Rabid Penguin

@DaveExile:
"would treatments like this be covered by insurance?"

As long as the cost of the treatment is below the cost of the premium.... Why not?
You know HMO's and PPO's make money no matter what...
If they can keep you alive to keep paying premiums...?

IT'S A MONEY MAKER I tell you!

On the upshot, When I'm 110 I'll be able to afford my very own Ferrari!... better start saving now for both the car and the pills.....

aec007

The planet can't sustain the population growth as it is, let alone when immortality drugs become available. Therefore, I think this should only be available to sterilized people with no children, maintaining a net zero growth for those who want it. Want to live forever, no kids for you!

ackthbbft

@itscarmennnn: u know that was a joke right? RIGHT!? haha

Sheemo44

@kOtic: lol funny thing is I know her by her HP's name too :)

Playstation

@Sheemo44: You know she's only 18...right? RIGHT!?

itscarmennnn

If you look at this list, you can see that around 120 seems to be the approximate limit on human lifespan already. I think what these drugs will do is allow more people to get closer to that limit. The concept of "natural" has no meaning in the context of human beings.

itchytooth

@newgalactic: Lets pray you don't go TOO soon!
Speaking of ground up baby faces, there is a cream that is made from the foreskin of a male baby's foreskin. It's a couple of hundred dollars for a jar and Tommy Hilfiger swears by it..but than again have you seen him?! YUCK!

itscarmennnn

@jozen:
I agree.. to an extent. Truly what is natural. Other than living naked in the wilderness? Everything we do all day pushes the limits of the natural. Even changes in available medication and changes in lifestyle over the centuries has swung the pendulum two and fro of our mortality rate. I don't know if this would be something I would take personally as I'm not even a fan of popping aspirin, however if it's at a reasonable expense and you would like to see what it's like to outlive your retirement savings then knock yourself out ;0)

sonburn

wooooooooow...i never wouldve suspected she was 63. hot damn.

Sheemo44

@itscarmennnn: Can't your loved ones take the pill too?

ghmlco

Is there anybody else that thinks her eyes are just weird? Sure, maybe you can find the fountain of youth, but if it does that to my eyes, I might have to think twice.

(But, if my whole body ended up looking like her, sign me up!)

Monty

@qbrad: If that's your point of view, why not stop paying taxes immediately ;)

sonicwind

@Rabid Penguin: If that's the case, he's too busy LOL'ing at the dinosaurs.

Hiphopopotamus

LOL, they think they are going to make in-roads against death, and they can do nothing about cancer, AIDS and a host of health problems. What they are going to do is take money (and probably health, too) from a lot of fools. If reducing calories does it, just eat less, fatty.

sonicwind

I don't see anything wrong with this in a moral sense. We already take vitamins to improve out health, try to eat right, exercise. Everyone in the modern world already lives longer due to "pills", other drugs, and understanding. This is just another "pill". Now, if one of the pills active ingredients was ground up baby faces, I'd say "yeah, that's pretty f'ed up!" But it's not (as far as I know). This is no different then insulin for a diabetic. If they didn't take that pill, they'd die sooner too.

Personally, my family's history of high blood pressure has pretty much ensured that I won't be dying from "old age". So this pill probably won't do me any good. But you can bet my Christian bottom is going to be taking other pills to help with that other problem (God willing).

newgalactic

@rimshot515: I want to live...I just don't want to live to where I'm old and in pain and suffering... Hell if grandpa can do it to the dog, I'm sure my kids will be good to dear ol' mom and do it to me :)

itscarmennnn

@Hiphopopotamus: If God made us the way we are and our bodies to work the way they do, then wouldn't he be laughing at us. "How long have you been on planet Earth, and you idiots are just NOW figuring out how not to die so quickly."

Rabid Penguin

@GiggleGoose:

my bad, was a little lisdexic there.

nutbastard

Pfizer's stocks just went up a wee bit higher (and harder).

HotShotNN

@rimshot515:
"whats wrong with not wanting to exist anymore? it would be a psycological disorder to not want to exist."

ok first of all, you answered your own question.

secondly, she was FOR not existing eventually - your position is ambiguous - please clarify.

nutbastard

@GiggleGoose:

you mean is it legal YET. Yes it's legal to think 4 year old boys are hot - there's no such thing as thoughtcrime (yet) just uh... don't think out loud, ok?

nutbastard

You know what this means, right? Another 50 years of listening to baby boomers talk about how important their generation is.

Great.

edosan

@itscarmennnn: wait, why? whats wrong with not wanting to exist anymore? it would be a psycological disorder to not want to exist. naturally, we fear death so we come up with either religion or medical advances.

rimshot515

@GiggleGoose: No after last year, it's not.

itscarmennnn

@Step666: I suppose I'm just not this shallow. When I get old I'll age well... If I don't well then that's how I was made to age. I'll get over it. I feel old as it is and I'm 18. I just don't think this is ehhhh... moral?

itscarmennnn

@ripfire4: Ahh yes. Here we go.

ripfire4

Is it still illegal to think she's hot?

GiggleGoose

Take THAT, God!

Hiphopopotamus

@kOtic: tasty tasty!

Ariel_Wollinger

Ray Kuzweil wants them!

Ariel_Wollinger

@itscarmennnn: your loved ones could take it as well...

Step666

Yeah, forget this. I smoke, drive fast, climb trees / rocks... if i'm not dead by 50, I'll seriously have to sit back and ask myself, "What the hell?".

nutbastard

Is old age an inevitability? Or is it a disease.

If it is a disease, would treatments like this be covered by insurance?

Would there be a age minimum for taking such supplements?

How would this affect the graying populations of developed nations -- and the liberal state obligation of care for such individuals? Would social security stop after a certain age?

What would this to re: the delay of childbirth in many western nations?

Would such supplements be available for pets?

Whoever can answer these questions gets +1 cookie.

DaveExile

I'm gonna go buy some land in the country immediately. It'll be worth millions once the entire planet is covered in people in their 20's, assuming that we don't create artificial intelligence first.

fuzz54

Hmmm... what happens if you overdose?

OtioseScandal

Does anyone really WANT to pay taxes for an additional 20 years?!

qbrad

Will there be jobs for old people????

Will employers hire them - (you can no longer lie about age because of document processing requirements)

If the job market wont make room - what and how will they survive??

SS wont be ample in this era of high rents, taxes and mortgages

SEARCH ENGINES

lol good now i can live up to 120 and play video games forever !!!!!!!!!!

toockz21

This is just plain stupid. I don't want to outlive my loved ones to the point where I have no one. People who buy into this shit have obvious serious psychological problems.

itscarmennnn

For some reason, it feels like I've read this article before... and it involved Will Smith.

ripfire4

this is not natural

jozen

yes!

rimshot515

Great! Time for even more pharmaceutical-related spam!

LittleJon

Mmmm. Hermoine Granger....

kOtic

I'll live forever because I take Vaxadrine.

[www.wikiality.com]

Windhawk

@Rabid Penguin: I heard they also rode vegan dinosaurs!

johnnyabnormal

@red: "considering we live twice as long as people a few lifetimes ago today, and they were living twice as long as people in the classical ages, and they were living twice what cavemen were living, id say its a process thats ongoing."

If you're talking about Paleolithic hunter/gatherers, that would be false. Barring accident or being eaten, they lived a very long time. Humans didn't even get diabetes till agriculture got on the scene.

@mferrari: I don't think he was referring to getting a tan. Melanin levels do prevent the very thing you mentioned, which is why those born with more of it tend to wrinkle slower than wonder bread whitey like me.

johnnyabnormal

Too bad by the time they actually release it, we'll all be too old already. Unless, of course, they have one that can reverse the aging process. Then I'll be impressed!

xAppleFan

@red: I, however, believe the Bible when it describes people (Adam, Noah, Methuselah, etc) living to be hundreds of years old.

Rabid Penguin

In related news, Malcolm in the Middle has been booked for another 14 seasons..

G for GRENADE

Could you find a more annoying face to post with this article? Her eyebrows want to eat me.

shamoononon

bah most of you guys are missing the point. Granted its too late for me but if this was available, I'd have started taking it right around puberty and stop taking it somewhere in my 30-40's. Think about it!

dabub

@kOtic: Glad I wasn't the only one with that first thought.

shenanigans61

I love the rational arguments going on in this thread, but the first post pretty much sums it up.

warf0x0r

i dont trust that shit
i feel like this is the situation wer someone finds out that it causes cancer or some bullshit and a hitman is hired to kill that person, but then there will be a hero who protects that person and exposes the company
POINT IS
i wudnt put my stocks in it.

bigpolla

Who the hell WANTS to live to be 120?! There's a REASON people generally die out before 100, you know. If I could be 50 or so forever, maybe. I'd rather die than be that old for that long.

DaOtter

The years are always added at the wrong end.

DeadWriter

@daftrok: She's been 18 for some time now. Does anyone here NOT read perezhilton.com?! Haha..ok well neither do I

itscarmennnn

@wetworker: The tan thing is completely untrue. Have you ever been to Florida or Arizona? The old folks there have skin that looks like shoe leather.
Sorry to double post

mferrari

Mmmm finally she's 18...

daftrok

it's as unnatural as the plastic surgery but everyone got use to it.... so if you don't like it then don't drink it end of the problem.

If it really works its going to be really interesting more the part that getting old in age but without all the crappy problems

mpar

@itscarmennnn: I think the point is that it will be priced low so everyone can use it and everyone will live longer. Though I think there has to be some side effects and I don't think anyone would be able to use it until they are done with puberty and growing because it can't be good to stop development. On the other hand, if all it does is have the same effects as a low calorie diet, it can't be so bad, except for the fact that the main users will be people with normal to high calorie diets.

mferrari

Sirtis?

Unseelie23

@lastpulse: no its that chick from harry potter
@Sheemo44: yes YES!!! good, lol.

itscarmennnn

Calorie restriction works. Its a sure way. It's rpoven: Just try it. Very simple. You will see that the shortest moments feel long and that life will feel sooooo long!!!! Famished all the time..... The recipe for a life that feels long and.... painful.....

altus

what happens when you fall down the stairs and break your neck or get shot in the chest?
who is gonna patch that up?

turi319

@nutbastard: crap i meant the opposite

rimshot515

@Windhawk: Oh yeah? When you get really old you can start taking Vexachub:

[www.wikiality.com]

johnnyabnormal

wow they're a lot of Ephebophiliacs posting here, posting your Quagmire {18 yet?} comments is a little too much for this thread.

Anyways I'd prefer to abolish cancer then live longer, but I'd have to admit if could look and feel a certain age for the entirety of same life span, that would be appealing.

Suddenly reminded of BLADE RUNNER, the replicants have 4 year life spans.

Costermonger

I would buy these illegal if I could. While I do not fear death, I still want to live for as long as possible and see everything that I can. I like living. I want to be able to experience as much as possible so I can contribute more to mankind before I die. And who wouldn't want to? Those of you who are saying that you don't want to are saying it because you don't belive in the effect of these pills. But if they do prove to be useful for prolonging the human life span, and the price isn't too heavy, you'll buy these. As will I.

VirreVojj

@Costermonger: Alright smarty pants, why did you capitalize 'Quagmire'?

shamoononon

I think we need to make a big distinction here: Does it make you LOOK young longer, or does it make your body function like a younger person.

My understanding is that this research is aimed at prolonging life/functionality. So this isn't something that's about keeping you looking young forever. Its about giving you more productive years.

I'm all for anything that will delay the onset of arthritis, incontinence, and other age related detriments.

For those of you against this, is it really so wrong to want to push back the number of years before I shit my pants every day or can no longer walk across the room without a walker?

Hitchcock

Also, I think many of you are missing out on a big thing here: Experience.
Think of how long it takes to educate a scientist or doctor. Or for any other job than cash register on McD. If these people got more time to continue their projects and/or start new ones, their experience from past projects over so much time would be invaluable. It would dramatically increase our knowing of the Universe, help prevent enviromental (and manmade) disasters, cure new diseases, evolve as people which in term affects the children making them even more good (ethically).
There are just too many positive sides of this.

VirreVojj

Hmm she's slowly but surely maturing nicely. Too bad some rich 64 year old actor will snatch her up when she turns 18 or 21.

Ken_Darrow

@ackthbbft: @ackthbbft: or just reverse that, you want to live forever? ok, but you cant have kids. You want kids? ok, you cant take the drug anymore!

this will force people to choose between children and death, which is definetly the correct approach.

pevans34

@VirreVojj: yeah but job descriptions change rapidly.

Valicious

This reminds me of The Fountain (amazing movie, by the way), especially this scene:

+ Watch video

DisposableInterloper

Your body-organs are going to worth more than you. Oh wait, they already are.

Vlad1v0st0K

@johnnyabnormal: They may have... I have no idea. I doubt it though. The only way to control the dinosaurs is to brain-box them, or use telepathic amulets. Just because we lived at the same time as dinosaurs doesn't mean used them as a taxi service.

Rabid Penguin

@nutbastard: hell is not ready.

Valicious

@Rabid Penguin: not sure be name of a man who outlived all of his generation but one hooker.
they guided the vegan dinos with a menthose/coke bottle rockets!
what about the eyepatch and carrot on stick trick?
foods on sticks amen.
can't you think of other uses for telephatitics than these?

Valicious

Sounds like a nice case of cancer to go along with that young look.

- PR-0927

PR-0927

With regards to the comment made about ephebophilia:

I hadn't come across that term before so quick google later found it refers to the condition whereby adults are sexually attracted to post-pubescent adolescents

A very informative and well written article from The Times on this subject

[www.timesonline.co.uk]

jimbowyer

@Valicious: I'm really not sure what you're saying...

Rabid Penguin

@pevans34: Who'll be iT that would force if thou will want to?
Kidnappings hip-hurray.
but you did point that forever means no kids will exist whatsoever with which I agree.

Valicious

@Rabid Penguin: trial and error be stronger than amulets or telepathy especially if you believe in hundreds o' years and those people.
privilege and bragging rights , defensive and guarded.

Valicious

@pevans34: Exactly!

ackthbbft

@johnnyabnormal: I read one year for a hindu god is many many years o' unhindu gods.
if eve was jewish everybody are jews.

Valicious

@turi319: Bruce Willis.

Valicious

@Valicious: Okay. You've made a lot of posts on this thread over a very short period of time and I feel like I've gotten to know you a bit, so I'm going to be honest... I have no idea what you're talking about. You lost me at "not," briefly drew me in again at "hooker," and then immediately lost me again.

Rabid Penguin

"Now, after research has been done on monkeys and other assorted animals..."

anyone else immediately think of Joop the orangutan?

B.Zanetti

@Sora57: Yeah. I decided to pic something a little more suited to my name. ;c)

Rabid Penguin

Anybody else celebrate April 15th, 2008 ?

fudged71

GO HERE!
[www.ted.com]

This 20 minute video is from the TED website and is a complete analysis of the issue. After the first few minutes the guy gets more comfortable and starts teasing the audience. It is excellent.

nospamsam

@Rabid Penguin: At least you had him before "not," I can't even claim that. I'm hoping he's writing in another language and his translating program is simply having a brain fart.

I see you've changed your avatar.

Sora57

Call me when someone invents anti-aging nanobots.

Ashe

Jeesh. All you people who want to die sooner than you have to, fine, go with my blessing. Just please don't try to prevent the rest of us from living as long and as happily as possible.

True, it's "not natural." Guess what else isn't natural? The internet! If you're so concerned about things that aren't natural, do us all a favor and be consistent.

Pender

Look at it this way. You add 20-30 years of life on with this and before you start to worry about getting old again they will have a new therapy to extend your life again.

Look how long it took to create computers but once we had them the advances we make are steady. This will be the same with anti-aging technology.

As was said before, it is very likely that the first person to reach 1,000 years old has already been born.

I'll post the link again. He explains it alot better than I.
[www.ted.com]

nospamsam

I just hope this is true, chances are its not.
However - the new generation WILL live longer, but without
some magical drug.

If it was true, I'd be using it, but the overpopulation would be a heavy burden on our future.

JoOngle

G.I.L.F!

Bos'un's Mate

@Pender: No one is talking about dying aside from natural causes. But I don't want to be taking anything thats produced in a factory with weird chemicals in it just b.c it makes me live longer. No one here is talking about committing suicide. Do you really want to be around forever? Why are you so scared of dying naturally from old age or something? You go when you go, I see the people who WANT to live even longer and are willing to take anything to do that as having problems.

carmen

@Pender: Last I checked the internet isn't ingested in pill form... yet.

Rabid Penguin

"Fountain of youth pills are coming, and soon."

If I stare at her picture much longer I'll be coming, and soon.

I'm here all week, folks.

Sora57

How many of you know a story about someone who was force fed (the original longevity drug) or someone that was treated for an illness against their will?

Some of you are talking as if you have a choice. In two hundred years, people that speak against and refuse taking longevity drugs will be shunned and treated for having suicidal thoughts.......just like today. lol

nospamsam

@carmen: I agree. It's not the length of the journey that matters, it's the quality of the journey itself. I mean, if I live to 120 and the last 20 years my dick is a shrivelled pastini, what's the point?

Sora57

Hmm.. i hope it works on the entire body (or not at all). Maybe i need to start being a little more cautious about who it is I'm hitting on.

tdeckard2000

@Jesse in Japan: Maybe if people lived longer we wouldn't be so short-sighted and would start being concerned about the future of the planet a bit more!

LittleJon

I think this technology is horrible. We can barely produce enough food to feed the 6.4 billion people on this planet when people are only living to be about 70 or 80 (in developed countries).

Jesse in Japan

@Sora57: "if I live to 120 and the last 20 years my dick is a shrivelled pastini, what's the point?" Well now, apparently you haven't seen BUBBA HO-TEP

shamoononon

I'm not totally sure I'd like to work for a 100 years, but if you cured cancer, I'd be pretty happy. SHUT UP sonburst!

shamoononon

Ray kurzweil must be involved and/or pissed.

Michai

Side effect: your testicles fall off! wow!

VakeroRokero

@OtioseScandal: well, there are diapers on the market already, you know, XXXXL size...

yogibimbi

@nospamsam: Yup, I hope to be one of those people who ride the wave of anti-aging procedures all the way to immortality. And I'll gladly swap out the chance to procreate for eternal life. I'm not really cut out for parenthood anyway. And all bets are off when someday I evolve into a being of pure energy. Q Continuum, here I come!

Barion

As Carl once put it, "Immortallity? I,I,I don't know. Sometimes I kinda wanna die."

Also... HOLY CRAP!

smashingparadox

Good lord, Hermione is lookin all sorts of.....nice.

Dook_In_The_Urinal

and I will live forever b/c i preserve myself with large amounts of alcohol.....jokes sure peaople will live longer and possibly even better but who will pay for it ? There is not enough ppl working now by the time most of ppl on this board get to their retirement age there will be no money left in the pot 'coz baby boomer live longer and longer thanks to the magic of drugs and botox :)

monkeemike

She's got that evil look in her eyes that says, "I'm gonna tear you apart, and you're gonna love every second of it."

Geisrud

It is amazing to me that so many people view this as weird. We've constantly been raising the average lifespan of human beings and we've done it through use of our technology. No one seems to object to taking a daily aspirin if their doctor recommends it. Why then is taking something (else) that extends your life a bad thing?

I may not want to live forever, but I don't know that for certain. Wouldn't it be great to be able to choose if and when you would want to call it quits? I mean, there's an awful lot to learn and to see and to do in the Universe.

rokstomp

AH HAH!
Just thins morning I was thinking...how can I live forever? And then I find this...ahh, our beautiful minds...
Anyhow. I think this is the coolest, yet the stupidest idea ever. Yeah, I think long life span is great, but how many of us are already on this planet? I mean, why not legalize HGH then? At least it keeps you buff too lol. Now, on other hand, what would be a great idea is to develop a pill that will increase the life span for our pets?

chernobylmc

Aging is such a mystery. Your body is constantly rebuilding itself just to stay alive, so why do some things wear out and get old? Maybe if we concentrate on those certain parts we could live longer. Or, maybe the gods are punishing us and don't want us to live longer. I don't think I can blame whatever it is. I sure as hell wouldn't want Bush around forever. I don't think the world could take it.

maven2k

I just started reading "Rollback" by Robert Sawyer - A middle class lady and her husband, both 87 years old, receive this uber expensive treatment to repair all the genes and tissues in their body to any post-pubescent chronological age they choose, but it doesn't work for the lady so the man is back to 25 again and coming to grips with what that means (sex, family, career etc.) It's a pretty fun read with a lot of references to Canadian/North American pop culture.

Fierock

So great, now you're telling me the only thing certain now is taxes? Just freaking perfect!

Xanatos451

But would they start giving you the pills when you're in you're in your 30's or when you're still a kid, that would mean that it could take 20 years before you're full grown.

gamecrazychris

resveratrol is actually found in red wine, albeit in much smaller amounts than what was studied to prolong life. They concentrated the extract from the red wine grapes and studied it. The prolonging of life is a healthy prolonging of life, meaning a proportional prolonging of active life and old, shitty life. It also allows people to eat the same amount as someone else not taking it and be considerably thinner (at least it did in rats with astounding results).

bird2431