Re: [DIYbio] Fwd: [tt] Geneticists Discover a Way to Extend Lifespans to 800 Years

Um ... I don't mean to intrude on what might be a most excellent
thread that goes off on any number of fascinating speculative
tangents, but my original intention in forwarding this article was to
spur some technical discussion about whether synthetic biology
experimentation on microbes at DIYbio scale could contribute to this
line of research (or nip it in the bud, if that's what it actually
deserves; I wouldn't know.)

So, in that (belated) spirit: IS something like that possible?

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On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 11:47 PM, Eugen Leitl <eugen@leitl.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 06:43:45PM +0000, Cathal Garvey wrote:
>
>> Without context, older memories would probably be inaccessible to this
>> process of "wildcard recall"; what would this mean for Methuselahs of
>> the future? Would they succumb to the stereotypical stasis of ancient
>> fictional characters like the vampires in Anne Rice's novels?
>
> If you have enough control at molecular scale to halt and reverse
> senescence or use vitrified patients in the dewar as blueprints
> who would want to keep wearing that stupid man suit longer than
> necessary?
>
> Humanity as is is far from being optimal. It's just a passing phase.
>
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