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| Jan 27th, 2007 12:22 AM | |||
| Jeanette X |
My great-grandpa lived to be 103. He saw the Red Sox the World Series win in 1917, and waited the rest of his life for them to win again, and he never got see it happen. 
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| Jan 27th, 2007 12:03 AM | |||
| J. Tithonus Pednaud |
Unlikely... The oldest documented person in history was Jeanne Calment of France, she was aged 122. The next oldest was a Japanese man named Izumi at 120, but his records are pretty hazy. Most think he actually took over the identity of his older brother at some point. Kahljorn, you are probably thinking of the hydrogen car prototypes from Toyodo and GM. |
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| Jan 26th, 2007 11:50 PM | |||
| zeldasbiggestfan | In my English book there is an extremely old author who died at the age of 123 (or around there, definately not in the teens though). About 1800 to 1923 it said. | ||
| Jan 26th, 2007 11:32 PM | |||
| kahljorn |
I saw it on the science channel on probably the best show I've ever seen. It was cool because the next day they had something on super technology and one of the technologies was this car they were building in sweeden or somewhere. It was basically a car that ran on air, it had a fan that was powered by gas so it required something like 10% as much gas. Of course, if you got in a car accident you'd probably die... they also had a segment on super strength and some other shit ;/ they also had stuff on space travel and how nearly impossible it would be without either some type of Freezinghibernation(cant recall the name at the moment, the walt disney thing) or people who would be willing to travel in space for hundreds of years, make new generations and die while in space. |
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| Jan 26th, 2007 10:23 PM | |||
| J. Tithonus Pednaud |
That's right. The theory was first put forward and researched by Alexander Graham Bell - modern estimates put the heritability of longevity between 20 and 50 percent. The fruit fly selective breeding experiments began in the 80's and within 10 generations the average lifespan on the test groups increased by 30%. In human terms, that would place the current average of 78 to just over 100. The studies continued and at 50 generations, the lifespan had doubled. Not only were the flies longer lived, they were more hardy as well. They required less food and water and were much more resistant to extremes in habitat. Of course, they were also fat, lethargic and lazy and completely stopped reproducing naturally. |
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| Jan 26th, 2007 09:55 PM | |||
| kahljorn |
yea... I remember watching this show about human super powers and one of them was how if an organism doesn't breed until very very late in life they can potentially spread a gene that mother nature turns on that allows your children to live longer. Basically it tricks your body because the only purpose of being alive is to create more life, so if you aren't creating more life it thinks you need longer to create it. They did some experiment with house flies or something and got them to live for up to 16 days, which is apparantly pretty old for a fly. So the career woman is supposed to be good in that regard. |
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| Jan 26th, 2007 09:10 PM | |||
| J. Tithonus Pednaud |
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| Jan 26th, 2007 07:03 PM | |||
| FartinMowler |
I'm waiting for 118 year old Viagra victim dies of Blue balls :/ or "He almost made it to 120 but someone greased the pole" 
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| Jan 26th, 2007 06:59 PM | |||
| Pub Lover |
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Also, if no one wrote down when I was born, I wouldn't know. I'd just be some old man not knowing if I was 80 or 217. Plus even if I knew I was 50 giga-tonnes of years old, with out someway of telling alot of people it really quickly, I'd be dead before they all found out. |
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| Jan 26th, 2007 06:56 PM | |||
| kahljorn |
i haven't done any drugs for at least a week
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| Jan 26th, 2007 06:53 PM | |||
| FartinMowler |
Being high doesn't make you live longer Kahl
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| Jan 26th, 2007 06:30 PM | |||
| kahljorn |
lol it's weird to think of it that way because that means ten people could've been you know.. the... thing... i dont know. but ten times 100 equals 1000! |
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| Jan 26th, 2007 06:29 PM | |||
| J. Tithonus Pednaud | Actually, genetics is more at the core of longevity than any other elements. No amount of modern medicine or nutrition will let you live longer if you don't have a clean genetic table. | ||
| Jan 26th, 2007 05:35 PM | |||
| Pub Lover |
Nutrition, Record keeping, Mass communication.  Plus History is a lie! 
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| Jan 26th, 2007 05:33 PM | |||
| FartinMowler |
Oldest person Lately I keep seeing "Oldest person" articles and wondered why is it lately that I'm seeing these? I thought we are doomed with pollution and everything that can harm us and still people are living longer. Quote:
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