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- The power to extend one's life. Sub-power of Lifespan Manipulation. Variation of Immortality. Opposite to Life Reduction.
- Aubrey de Grey posits that in the near future life extension technology will increase average lifespans by a decade. He goes on to hypothesise that in that decade further advances will extend lifespan by more than a decade... and so on... leading effectively to imortality. Will increased and healthier lifespan come out of this research? Yes, absolutely. The more we understand the more interventions we have for repair. Colors = BackgroundColors = canvas:canvas bars:canvas BarData= bar:Timeperiod barset:Timeperiod2 PlotData=
- Life extension was a technology developed during the years of the Old Empire. It was a very painful process which however dramatically slowed the aging process of a body. The pain caused during the process was so high that resembled a torture, and the receiver might pass out. After the fall of the Empire, the technology was somehow forgotten and retained only in the Synchronized Worlds. However it was a lure Omnius offered so that he could ally human spies and traitors with him such as Handon and Yorek Thurr. Thousands of years later, human beings learned to use melange to attain the same goal.
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| Caption | - Shinigami extend their lifespans by using their notebooks to kill humans.
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- The power to extend one's life. Sub-power of Lifespan Manipulation. Variation of Immortality. Opposite to Life Reduction.
- Life extension was a technology developed during the years of the Old Empire. It was a very painful process which however dramatically slowed the aging process of a body. The pain caused during the process was so high that resembled a torture, and the receiver might pass out. After the fall of the Empire, the technology was somehow forgotten and retained only in the Synchronized Worlds. However it was a lure Omnius offered so that he could ally human spies and traitors with him such as Handon and Yorek Thurr. Vorian Atreides and Gilbertus Albans were also receivers of life extension. Specifically Vorian received the life extension treatment in his early twenties. By the end of the Butlerian Jihad almost a century later, Vorian is described as appearing to be roughly thirty. Thousands of years later, human beings learned to use melange to attain the same goal.
- Aubrey de Grey posits that in the near future life extension technology will increase average lifespans by a decade. He goes on to hypothesise that in that decade further advances will extend lifespan by more than a decade... and so on... leading effectively to imortality.
* In part this is based on experiments in mice which show a doubling in life span through calorific-restriction. Control their diet, and mice live longer. BUT: The mouse experiment with calorific restriction is very misleading. If you actually examine the 'control' mice, the ones fed on a 'normal' diet, you notice that they are obese by normal mouse standards. In the wild there is almost no selection pressure to curb feeding, since the norm is food in short supply. AND: The model of accelerating success in life extension is also highly suspect. It is at odds with a model of ageing which posits gradual deterioration of all biological systems in the body. Such a model is consistent with observed changes as individuals age. It would mean that successive extension to life would become progressively harder to achieve. So not everyone concurs with Aubrey's optimism. However, there is likely to be a truly amazing revolution in the biological sciences within the next 50 years. Currently we have the entire genomic sequence of human DNA. We know how to 'read' it at the ABC level. We're just starting to understand the feedback systems. There is going to be a huge synergy here with computer analysis of this DNA data in conjunction with gene-expression data. It is every bit as exciting as if blueprints for an alien piece of technology had fallen into our hands. Will increased and healthier lifespan come out of this research? Yes, absolutely. The more we understand the more interventions we have for repair. Colors = id:canvas value:rgb(0.97,0.97,0.97) id:grid1 value:rgb(0.80,0.80,0.80) id:grid2 value:rgb(0.86,0.86,0.86) id:Timeperiod value:rgb(0.80,0.80,0.99) id:Timeperiod2 value:rgb(0.86,0.56,0.56) id:gray value:gray(0.7) id:lightblue value:rgb(0.60,0.99,0.99) Period = from:1970 till:2100 TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal format:yyyy ScaleMajor = unit:year increment:10 start:1970 gridcolor:grid1 ScaleMinor = unit:year increment:10 start:1970 gridcolor:grid2 AlignBars = justify BackgroundColors = canvas:canvas bars:canvas BarData= bar:Timeperiod barset:Timeperiod2 PlotData= width:25 fontsize:S textcolor:black align:center bar:Timeperiod color:Timeperiod shift:(0,-3) from:start till:end text: "Bio Technology" width:24 fontsize:S textcolor:black anchor:from align:left color:Timeperiod barset:Timeperiod2 at:2006 text: "2006:" at:2070 text: "2070: AI-neural interface" This article is too short. You can contribute by expanding it. Write more on the topic, add good links or edit the text.
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