I do, actually, on multiple grounds.

A. This is being reported by multiple news services. If it was just one talking about it without proof, then the others would have a golden opportunity to disprove it and show themselves as being better. They're not, which supports the idea that this is true.

B. BBC has shown itself over time to be reliable. Are they perfect? No. Do they have biases? Definitely. Does their writing have some degree of slant? Sure. Do they make up entire articles and news stories? No.

C. This is reporting on the conversation between a trio of dicatators who have given every indication of wanting to live and rule forever, who have zero ethical concerns about using any and every method of doing so, and have the power and resources to spend on it without precluding other avenues. I'd honestly be surprised if they weren't researching this. Along with every other life-extension technlogy that has come up in the past couple of decades.

D. Lastly, but not leastly, the BBC article specifically cites a Russian media reporting that Putin effectivley confirmed his remarks. Doubt BBC all you want, but I'm sure there's at least a few Russian speakers in the western hemisphere who have immediately sought out Tass to find the article in question. If this citation didn't exist, BBC would be called out specifically for that lie, rather than just vague accusations that this whole event didn't happen. And Russian media isn't going to report anything that reflects badly on Putin. Remember, living forever is a good thing for dictators. It emphasizes their power and importance, and they're savy enough to pickup on the potential morale boost for their country of being able to imply "See, our country is great enough to enable its leader to rule forever. Unlike those weak western states that can't even keep their leaders functional for a couple of decades."

Putin reportedly reprised his remarks later while speaking to Russian media.

Russian state news agency Tass quoted him as saying: "Modern recovery methods, medical methods, even surgical ones dealing with the replacement of organs, enable humanity to hope for active life to last longer than it does today.

"Average age is different in different countries but life expectancy will increase significantly".

At the end of the day, the "does it make sense that they are trying to do so and wouldn't be afraid to admit it" check: Definitely. I wouldn't even put it past them to have staged this specifically for the propaganda value of revealing that they do have plans to live forever. It's possible. I'm not sure if that did happen in this case, but it's possible. They're all canny enough people, Putin especially, to not say things in public (even if the mics are supposedly off) that they don't want reported. There's lots of witnesses around, and the whole event they were at is specifically about showing off how powerful one of them is. This is just one more facet of power.

Firstly, yes, I want to go to space. Definitely.

But I want to go to space to achieve something. Going just to spend a few minutes being a tourist has a very low value to me, and would have to be commensurately extremely low risk for me to do it.

If I had the opportunity to do something pioneering, or do some really valuable science... Yes, I definitely would like to say "Yes."

But there's no blanket statements. It depends on the spaceship, the company, the crew I'm going with, the mission.... I have to be OK with all of these. Some entities have a better track record than others, and the one thing that I'm not willing to compromise on is the ship itself being capable and proven of being able to safely get me there and back.

Gmail has one thing that outlook does not: Sorting.

Breaking out of the "Each email gets to go in One folder like a piece of physical mail" is just cumbersome and unhelpful. It seems like these days at least half of my emails need to go in more than one category. Being able to label each email with *all* the categories it needs to be in, and then having everything in that category visible when I click on that "folder" was an awesome innovation that I wish could be applied to basically everywhere else I have files.

I like outlook (the desktop program), it's stable and functional. But the email organization side of it is terrible.