Most people want to live a long and healthy life. I want to redefine what that means. In the Bible, Methusalah lived to the age of 969. I see no reason why I shouldn’t have the same amount of time to figure things out here on Earth.
I’m not alone. I read an interesting article recently [...]

X Prize, the people that spurred the development of the first privately built and sucessfully tested spacecraft to leave Earth’s atmosphere, has announced something exciting:
By creating the first private race to space, the X PRIZE Foundation gave birth to a new industry with dramatic technological, social and investment opportunities. [...]

As a transhumanist, I had high hopes for The ImmortTalist Manifesto. I should have taken the time to read all the Amazon.com reader reviews first (about half the reviews appear fake, which is telling in and of itself). This book is written at a high school level from a perspective of arrogance and self-righteousness. It’s [...]

Q. Do you believe there is such a thing as a limited life span for humans?
A. No. Life span is totally tunable. In my lab, we tune it up and down all the time. “
Read the article. It’s interesting, to say the least.
H/T Instapundit.

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When I was culturing cells in the lab there’d be an occasion where I was finished with the culture and we destroyed it. We’d take the cells, we’d do the experiment and then we’d throw them away in an efficacious manner. We’d sterilize them so they were dead, but is that destroying life? Those cells [...]