Penguinisto opened this issue on Dec 04, 2006 · 175 posts
kuroyume0161 posted Wed, 06 December 2006 at 2:30 AM
I just quickly perused the link, but I sincerely (as in skeptical, scientific backing) doubt that any human has ever lived more than 120-something years. To make it to 100 is 1 in a million. To make it to 110 is 1 is 500 million. To make it to 120 is 1 in a billion (or so). 200+ is 1 in several trillion (chance more than all humans - homo sapiens sapiens - that have ever existed and will exist for the next several centuries). Such longetivity has never been recorded scientifically in all history (only in fairy tales and myths - see Bible).
Why? It has nothing to do with eating yogurt religiously or being religiously yogurted. In every cell is a genome based on DNA which has a little timer (Teleromase). As cells die and reproduce, the number of these decrease. When these are exhausted, the cells no longer reproduce. If there is a possible 'fountain of youth', it is directly linked to that. This doesn't take into account other internal/external factors, but it is a rather hard wall on human longetivity.
I'll believe that someone can live to 122, but not to 207! ;)
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