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Originally Posted by amsterdamage
they aren't getting close to preventing aging. They never will.
We're biological organisms, we live, we age and we die. Aging and dying aren't unnatural things that we have to try to avoid, they're a natural part of our lives and they'll never be able to be removed from us.
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I've read a lot of stories in the news regarding this so I have a good idea of where progress is. Granted, half of it is bogus but a lot of it is from reputable sources such as PhysOrg.com. Close is a relative term that I use here because we're learning so much about the process. I think you vastly underestimate the power of technology that we may have within the next 50-100 years. All you have to do to solve a problem (aging) is isolate the cause (someone above said DNA or something) and prevent it. Tell me how that isn't
eventually possible when we can build computer chips a quarter the width of a human hair today (we should be able to modify DNA on an entire body scale efficiently at some point w/ microscopic robots etc)?