Can we live forever?

Yes and no.



My Reason why:

In biblical times people were aged at around 160+ years old. Of course I am not the most religious person in the world so therefore it can obviously be fraud that was even possible.

Scientifically it makes sense, My reasoning behind it is simply the fact that air pollution was not around. Trees threw out more oxygen. Life was not polluted with gasses like today is, pretty much what I am trying to say is
Less pollution=longer life

I am not a genius, but it seems that it is very much possible to live longer then we do today.

Zax wrote Can we live forever?

Yes and no.



My Reason why:

In biblical times people were aged at around 160+ years old. Of course I am not the most religious person in the world so therefore it can obviously be fraud that was even possible.

Scientifically it makes sense, My reasoning behind it is simply the fact that air pollution was not around. Trees threw out more oxygen. Life was not polluted with gasses like today is, pretty much what I am trying to say is
Less pollution=longer life

I am not a genius, but it seems that it is very much possible to live longer then we do today.

That and also the food we eat. It destroys our organs over time.

Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.

-Babe Ruth

tldr; do something legendary before you die

Zax wrote Can we live forever?

Yes and no.



My Reason why:

In biblical times people were aged at around 160+ years old. Of course I am not the most religious person in the world so therefore it can obviously be fraud that was even possible.

Scientifically it makes sense, My reasoning behind it is simply the fact that air pollution was not around. Trees threw out more oxygen. Life was not polluted with gasses like today is, pretty much what I am trying to say is
Less pollution=longer life

I am not a genius, but it seems that it is very much possible to live longer then we do today.

While that may be true, don't forget about all of the vaccinations that we now have for all of the deadly diseases that wiped out towns. We've come a long way in the medical field, but also created harmful effects on ourselves (e.g. fast food). It's an endless cycle that, at least to me, will never end.

maybe if you were a vegatarion mountain man, and worked out everyday, basically lived the healthiest life possible

If you could find a way to trnsfer your brain to robot, then yes, maybe.

Zax wrote Can we live forever?

Yes and no.



My Reason why:

In biblical times people were aged at around 160+ years old. Of course I am not the most religious person in the world so therefore it can obviously be fraud that was even possible.

Scientifically it makes sense, My reasoning behind it is simply the fact that air pollution was not around. Trees threw out more oxygen. Life was not polluted with gasses like today is, pretty much what I am trying to say is
Less pollution=longer life

I am not a genius, but it seems that it is very much possible to live longer then we do today.

While that all could be possible, biblical claims are unsupported by facts.
The oldest verified person was [ Register or Signin to view external links. ] Jeanne Louise Calment , she also smoked cigarettes "Calment smoked cigarettes from the age of 21 (1896) to 117 (1992)". Now on the aspect of oxygen quality it has not changed much in the last 30 million years, when dinosaurs roamed 60 million years ago is when the air quality was nice as it permitted megafauna such as the Brachiosaurus.

Can we live forever? Well yes. If we were to find a way to reverse the aging process this would be perfectly possible. But exactly do we do that? We need to learn the human body inside and out.

First of all, we know that DNA is sort of like a shoelace. It has plastic tips at the end. Every time a cell reproduces, the tips get shorter and shorter and shorter until finally they fray. And you know that your shoelace, without the plastic tips will simply fall apart. That's what happens inside a cell. A cell, for example, your skin cell, will divide about 60 times, that's called a Hayflick Limit. Then the cell goes into senescence and eventually dies.

So in some sense, every cell has a biological clock. It is doomed to die after about 60 reproductions. However, Telomerase can eliminate some of the contraction of the chromosomes and the chromosomes can maintain their length. So at first you may say, "ah-ha! We can now defeat the biological clock." But not so fast, first of all, cancer cells also use Telomerase. Cancer cells are immortal. Cancer cells are immortal and that's precisely why they kill you. Why are cancer cells so dangerous? Because they are immortal. They grow and they grow and they grow until they take over huge chunks of your body, meaning that your bodily functions cannot be performed and you die. So we have to make sure that when you hit ordinary cells with Telomerase that you don't also trigger cancer in the process.
Now, also you have to realize that genes are also very essential for the aging process. It turns out that we know what aging is. Aging is the buildup of error. That's all aging is. The build up of genetic and cellular error. And cells begin to age; they begin to get sluggish because genetic mistakes start to build up. Now cells; however, have a repair mechanism. They can repair damage to their cells; otherwise we would all basically rot very soon after birth. However, even the repair mechanisms eventually get gummed up and then the cell really starts to get old as a consequence. So then the question is, can you accelerate cell repair? That is another branch of gerontology which is being looked at using genes and using chemicals to accelerate the repair mechanisms.

For example, if I take any organism on the planet Earth from yeast cells to spiders, insects, rabbits, dogs, and even monkeys now. And I reduce their caloric intake by 30%, they live 30% longer. In fact the only organism which has not yet been deliberately tested by scientists are homo sapiens. All the other species obey this basic rule. You starve them to death, they live longer. This is independent of Telomerase. This is a function of the wear and tear that we have on the cells. And this is the only known way of actually deliberately extending the lifespan of any organisms almost at will.
Now, what we want is a genetic way of mimicking this mechanism without having to starve yourself because how many people do you know would be willing to starve themselves in order to live 30% longer? Not too many. So then the question is, are there genes that control this process. And the answer is apparently, yes. There's something called the Sirtuin genes, Sir2 being the most prominent of them. They in turn stimulate certain enzymes, among them Resveratrol, which is found in red wine, for example. So this does not mean that drinking red wine or taking Telomerase is the fountain of youth. I don't think that anyone has the fountain of youth yet. What I am saying is, we are now finding pieces of the fountain of youth, tantalizing clues that mean that perhaps in the coming decades, we might be able to actually unravel the aging process.

No nothing lasts forever but ways to last longer is probably possible such as mind uploading.