--- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Apr 27, 2005, at 12:22 PM, Patrick Gillam wrote: > > > > > Stephen Hawking also expects human beings to > > become very different from what we are now. He > > cites the disconnect in Star Trek, which shows amazing > > technologies run by human beings who are (surprise!) > > just like us. In fact, he says, we can expect humans > > to be as highly engineered as everything else centuries hence. > > > > At one time, I saw the rise of natural law as our one salvation > > against the mechanization of humanity. I don't know where I > > stand now. > > > > What's already available is shocking. I don't know if this was talked > about here or not, but a while back they discovered the basic mechanism > behind the *mortality* of cells, "aglets", which like the the coverings > on the ends of shoelaces (aglets) they are a covering on the end of our > chromosomes. With each cells division, the aglets shorten, till > eventually the cell will not divide any longer. Well we now know if you > take a freshly divided cells, a zygote and clone it, the aglets are > longer. Clone it again the aglets are even longer, and so on. So we > know the technology to make cells (relatively) immortal. In nature > there are only one type of cells that are essentially immortal and > these are cancer cells. > > The current direction of this technology is to genetically engineer a > retrovirus that doesn't behave like HIV but instead will take the > longer aglets and, once infused into the body will replace your short > aglet DNA with the long aglet type. The increase in lifespan will jump > to about two to six hundred years. The patent has already been awarded > on this technology. Lest we think people will not go for this type of > thing, consider what we do today: do we lead healthy lifestyles so we > look good and age well? No, we take the materialistic way out and use > acids to eat the skin off our faces and bodies so we can grow a new > "younger" looking skin--all in the name of superficial glamour. Make no > mistake, even if we outlaw this technology the rich and well-heeled > will have access in off-shore labs that will provide long life or new > body parts or whatever.
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