Reply To: Toshiba's "Micro Nuclear Reactor" – it's not fusion, but it's here now
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Brian H wrote:
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No hopes for immortality here. But a few extra years would be welcome.
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Are you familiar with the “actuarial immortality” concept? The idea is that lifespan expectations are climbing faster as time goes on, and when it reaches the point that it climbs one year or more per year, the expected span becomes “indefinite”. So you/I/we just have to make it to that point! 😉
BTW, anyone else having smiley trouble again? All my browser(s) display is the text from the link page.
Yes, I am familiar with the idea of actuarial immortality from Aubrey de Grey’s lectures. Here’s a link to a couple of them, although neither of these is the exact one I was hoping to link to. In the one I was hoping to find he goes into a bit more detail about methods of repairing cell damage. Possible methods of repair. I can’t seem to find that one.
http://www.ted.com/talks/aubrey_de_grey_says_we_can_avoid_aging.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5TMpIgUDLw
Ahh… Here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTMNfU7zftQ