Possible form of immortality?

Okay so I was watching National Geographic today, the best channel on earth, and the aprticular show was Inside The Human Body. It describes the wonders and miracles of the human body and the astonishing growth pattern it faces for the first two decades.

It basically follows a lady through the stages of her life, tells what the outside world and people in it do to you and what affect they have on you ect ect.

The part that intrigued me was when they described the aging process and why we die. They say that age isn't just the wear and tear on the body, because our body replenishes it's cells and rejuvinates itself all the time.

So what causes use to age and become old? What causes our bodies to change and get wrinkly and old and crippled and yucky. If our bodies recover and rejuvinate the wear and tear then what in the end causes us to cease from living on?

The answer they say is that in the beginning our cells are developing. Once we reach the peak of development (which is like mid 20's or something) Our cells now focus their attention not on growing and improving but rather maintaining.

We shed over 400 pounds of skin cells in the form of dust particles throughout our lifetime, which is alot of friggin dust. Our skin cells are cosntantly being replaced by new ones which causes our cells to constantly clone themselves in order to replace the old cells.

Here's where aging coems in. Each time something goes wrong with the cell, that cell multiplies and then something happens to that cell then it multiplies, thus continuing to multiply cells that are accumilating damage and passing it on to the new cells.

They made the analogie of a copier to describe it. It's liek making a copy of a document, and then making a copy of the copy and a copy of that copy and a copy of that copy and so on until the qaulity is complete shit and it basically looks like nothing. Same thing with our cells, they continue to make copies of the cells with problems which make copies which get damaged which just accumulate damage and multiply until their qaulity is crap, like the photocopy on the printer.

This is why we start to see the appearance of wrinkles, and other old people stuff emerge on our body's outer shell. The same is true with the cells that make up our organs, they deteriorate through this "copying" process until they can't function adequetly enough to keep us alive. Then we Die

So if this is the reason that we age and the thing that ultimately leads to a natural death down the road, then is there a way we can manipulate our cells somehow to not reproduce the bad cells and only reproduce good ones?

Or even better could we somehow "perfect" the cell and find a way to keep it from being damaged or find a way to make the cell repair itself before it multiplies? Somehow alter the cell to behave differntly so that it doesn't degrade and thus always reproduces fresh healthy ageless cells?

Like they could get something to inject into your cells once you have reached your "peak" and it would preserve your cells the way they were so they could just constantly regenerate and create identically healthy preserved cells.

If we could somehow do this we could escape the effects of aging. You could be 200 in the body of a 26 year old forever and never die from old age. Of course you could die fro ma car crash, suicide, or some other form of unnatural death, but you could not die from old age.

You would be in a sense immortal as long as you were healthy and excercised and avoided potentially life threatning activities such as skydiving. I understand you could die doing ANYTHING even walking outside but you get my drift.

Just think we would have grandpa's and grandma's that looked as young as us!?? Everyone would retain their youthful appearance yet they could retain all the wisdom they gained over the decades and centuries and millenia and eons.

Imagine smoking with some dude like "How old are you bro?" and he replies "Eh just turned 6,000,000,000" and you're like "Oh you graduated in the year ect ect? I graduated 2 eyars earlier I'm 5,999,999,998"

What if in being stoned while watching that today, I discovered the path to ageless immortality and i become a 100 million billion trillionaire! Man that'd be insane...

However, then the question arises. Would you want to live forever and not know if there is some form of afterlife and have to put up with the shit life deals us all the time forever?

Well if you survived reading this whole thing and were intrigued at all gimme some feedback. I think it's worth looking into a bit and I'd appreciate hearing some insight.

Or you might think it was retarded and a waste of time to read..

YOU BE THE JUDGE!!!!:thumbsup::stoned:

Okay, I read the whole thing and what came to mind was the fact that, if no one died then the world would become sooooo over crowded. Then what?

A) No one could have kids. Kind of like how China's government only allows their people to have 2 children a year.

B) Does that mean we can't have sex anymore? I mean b/c then you'd risk it?

No people just wouldn't die from NATURAL death, which occurs fro maging. Peopel would die all the time in homicides and accidents ect.. So we coudl reproduce and it wouldnt become OVERPOPULATED, it would lead to a popualtion increase, a drastic one. But no overpopulation.

I dunno, I wouldn't count on people naturally thinning themselves out thru suicide and accidents and crime and stuff.

at least not enough

People are pretty malicious though. We always seem to desire another person's shit or more shti i ngeneral. This leads to crime, violence, ect. With all the Terrorism in the world (as the U.S. lieks to refer to it) spawned by religious violence, I think the numebrs would stay manageable.

Eh' possibly. But none the less. Its a cool idea. I like it. I watch the discovery channel and think of shit like this too haha. You should write a book. Become a millionaire. And then buy the worlds biggest bud.

My Dad was encouraging me to write a story about my life, liek how bad i fucked up and then how I cleaned up by going to a military academy and becoming all prestigeous and shit..But...now i smoke weed again and act stupid like the college kid I am..haha..

But hell ya national geographic has tight shit on it 24/7. Like you can't always rely on your favorite cartoon to be on, but you can always rely on National Geographic to have something cool on.

i see where you're going, but i still doubt that'd prevent natural death, it just wouldn't be something that is age related.... we may still be able to preserve our bodies in pristine condition for hundreds of years, but not every natural death we face is due to old age.... cancer, illness, organ failure, clogged arteries/heart problems, etc etc...

and the longer and longer we lived, the more and more the chance of us dying one of those deaths would increase, and at some point, if you were even lucky enough to live for so long, it'd be a miracle you even woke up that day....

in all honesty, there is nothing you could ever do to prevent death.. if you found a way to use this so thta your body didn't detoriate, and lived as healthy as you possibly could, you could still very well die a natural death.

I see and i agree with you, but technically if you avoided illness to the best of your ability and maintained a healthy lifestyle you could prolong your life and evade death for like 500 years potentially without feeling like a nasty old vegetable that lives in a nursing home?

what about those sci-fi movies with brains in a jar, i mean the brain needs a constant flow of oxygenated blood to keep it alive. so maybe the brain should be the focal point and not the body?

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Originally Posted by rebgirl420

I dunno, I wouldn't count on people naturally thinning themselves out thru suicide and accidents and crime and stuff.

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Originally Posted by rebgirl420

Okay, I read the whole thing and what came to mind was the fact that, if no one died then the world would become sooooo over crowded. Then what?

A) No one could have kids. Kind of like how China's government only allows their people to have 2 children a year.

B) Does that mean we can't have sex anymore? I mean b/c then you'd risk it?

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No more sex? Hah! Yea right! You better start taking twice your birth control! ;)