If you live long enough most of your cells end up dieing or critically damaged by the formation of inclusion bodies caused from misfolded proteins. As far as we can tell the cells are otherwise fine they are just slowly accumulating that damage over time. This is also what alzheimer's is. The problem is that misfolded proteins are kind of contagious to other proteins in the cell and that is what leads to the inclusion bodies.

We are making progress though on being able to clean out the inclusion bodies. Your cells do have the ability to take them apart but somehow they end up not doing it. Give us some time though and we will fix this problem also and clean out these inclusion bodies in all of your cells and then your cells will work much better.

The other issue we need to fix is activating telomerase to extend our telomeres. The basic issue is that natural selection does not really select for anything after reproductive age so humans are filled with a bunch of small defects and we are getting better at repairing the damage. I really look forward to what can be done with CRISPR-CAS9 to repair DNA damage and replaced damaged genes.

Oh, you meant solutions the suffering individuals could implement all by themselves? Nah, they're probably fucked. Just try to fight it as best as you can and probably lose anyway.

I was offering ideas for solutions we collectively might implement if enough of us had the political will to do it, but it doesn't sound like you're actually interested in hearing those so never mind.

"but even that has a fairly short practical limit."
nope. Any signal that has ever broadcast anywhere and has had time to get here can be picked up, you just need a big enough antenna.

I did some research, and in order to pick up a TV level signal 100 light years away, we could built an antenna the size of Rhode Island in space.

That sound big, but if you could it out of small piece you can send and it can attach itself, we could do it for not much money every year. The great thing is we could just keep adding and get more and more 'fainter' signals.

egomaniac much?

We deserves life, and the stars.
we crawled out of the ocean, we got out of the trees, we defeated every predator, we built towers of glass and steel, we have spanned great water ways, we have been to the moon, and we have a machine out side out solar system

We surely DO DESERVE the stars.
The stars are no place for pansies, quitters. The stars are for whom ever can grab them.

People content to live in a squalor with no motivation or goals, no curiosity, those subhumans done't deserve the stars.

"And if you think this is too harsh, you haven't studied our history like I have."
teach you grandmother to suck eggs, quitter.

With the stars comes peace, and technology to solve the issues here.

Because they aren't possible? becasue they have populated the other half of the galaxy? becasue they don't need to grow that fast? becasue they have all been wiped out be a variety of event. Specifically wiped out faster then they can be built?

It's like getting a thimble of water from the ocean and asking "where are all the fish?"

why would it last forever? Why would it be within our solar system?

answer: Space is really big.

A race could have populate half the galaxy's out there and we still wouldn't know.

And it also mean every step in the chain need 50 available as well.

On plus plus side, you have invented a way to post to the future.:)

sorry, 1.5/.75 just reminded of 1997. I we were glad to have it!

so how would "loaning" a digital copy multiple times be treated?
at the same time? illegal distribution.
If it can't be stolen, it can't be lent.

Is quitting something you do whenever things get tough? hard project? quit. Takes effort to change? quit! Painting the house is hard? Quit and sell the house!

Maybe it you generation of whiners and quitters that's the problem?

You nee to compare that to the cost of research and discovery. You would need to send 100s of robots to even come close to what 1 human could do in a day.

Frankly, it s a silly argument. It's not Human v Robots. It's humans and robots.

TI's funny when someone uses an irrational and flawed argument but has Sagan and randi.org in their sig.

are you high? try 55+ million per launch.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F...

not no it's dangerously hot. as in put you in the hospital for a week hot.

Seriously if you order a coffee would it be a reason expectation that it would be so hot that if yo dropped it in your lap you would be in the hospital for a week(may have been 10 days)

Ironically, you posting that is more of an example of what you are trying to show.