[Vertigo1]

Originally posted by Stryke 9
Now here's a scary thought-

If we were all smart, what would be on TV?

Even scarier...what would games be like?

[Razor]

Simple. There wouldn't be any. We wouldn't want to lower ourselves to the level of primitive games. But since we aren't that "inteligent" we play games anyway.

[Razor]

What the...? The doughnuts are still in the lead. I knew I shouldn't have added those.

[Stryke 9]

Originally posted by Lonestar
We humans have a body, Scientists proved, that is meant to live forever. The degredation of our body over the years cannot be accounted for even in the best earth and life conditions. It is true certain unnatural things made by us humans have proven to degrade our body over long periods of time. Anyways, our bodies were designed to live forever, dont beleive me do some research.

Whaaaaat??? Excuse me, but pandering-to-senior-citizens notwithstanding, damn few biologists would say anything but quite the reverse. Even under ideal conditions, the body decays. Hell, that's what cancer's all about- if you live long enough (like in modern times) that something else doesn't kill you by age 60, your chromosomes themselves start decaying! Is THAT your idea of "built to last forever"? Go look at somebody at age 80, anybody at age 80, and tell me that they could, should, or would be living for any great period of time longer.

I don't believe you. I've done some research well before now, and some quite thorough research, too. I still don't believe you, and in fact don't believe you've done the research.

[mikhael]

Originally posted by Lonestar

We humans have a body, Scientists proved, that is meant to live forever. The degredation of our body over the years cannot be accounted for even in the best earth and life conditions. It is true certain unnatural things made by us humans have proven to degrade our body over long periods of time. Anyways, our bodies were designed to live forever, dont beleive me do some research.

Um.. I have two words for you. "Prionids" and "telomeres".

Next time you do "research", include some basic human cellular biology and biochemistry to the list of subjects.

[CP5670]

I have heard about equal support for both sides, and there does not seem to be a clear agreement in the medical community on that point. It is possible that people only die because of loss of immunity to diseases (so if the diseases are not there they would live indefinitely), or it may be that the bodies themselves automatically decay after some time (although we have not reached the limit yet, since the average lifespan is growing higher and higher over time with advances in medicine).

[Lonestar]

Originally posted by mikhael


Um.. I have two words for you. "Prionids" and "telomeres".

Next time you do "research", include some basic human cellular biology and biochemistry to the list of subjects.

Dont knock it until you FULLY research it. I have added those, and it took years for me to draw this conclusion.  Bodies are designed to live forever, but what happens outside the body is not accounted for. As CP said, arguments can be made for both sides of this although if you think about it, how our bodies fight diseases and repairs broken bones etc... it maes of sense that our bodies are a self maintaining machine striving for longevity. Unfortunately what you eat, breath, drink and the way you act changes what your body is designed for.

Styke 9, i assure you I have but all i have is my word here. Im not debating whther you or I or anyone here has actually done the research, nor am i trying to push my beleif onto anyone. Im merely stating my beleif.

Dont beleive it, thats fine by me ill still live for atleast another 30 or so yrs. I just find it hard to beleive you have done as much research as you say you have and have missed that part about how the body is designed and what it looks like it is or was capable of. I find that strange indeed. My own biology teacher argued in high school the fact the body is designed to live forever, yet it is unexplained why it begins to degrade after so many years. He said it makes no sense, although the facts show otherwise, the design of the body would lead you to beleive it cld last forever. Of course i didnt beleive him because he was a teacher in high school, but over the years many facts i have read and heard had me beleiving the same thing he did.

[Corsair]

We're idiots. We've got all this great technology and we're destroying the world? Forgetaboutit.

[Vertigo1]

Originally posted by Razor
Simple. There wouldn't be any. We wouldn't want to lower ourselves to the level of primitive games. But since we aren't that "inteligent" we play games anyway.

Or look at it another way....how hard would they be?  Can you just imagine such missions in FS2?  Alpha1 would have one hell of a day.

[Stryke 9]

Originally posted by Lonestar
it is unexplained why it begins to degrade after so many years. He said it makes no sense, although the facts show otherwise, the design of the body would lead you to beleive it cld last forever. Of course i didnt beleive him because he was a teacher in high school, but over the years many facts i have read and heard had me beleiving the same thing he did.

You haven't answered the responses at all. After a certain period of time (at about the 40-year mark), your body's internal repair systems start to wear down, and you start to fall apart slowly, because, outside influences or no, your body still is constantly taking itself apart a bit at a time and putting itself back together- it's a bit important that that second bit is done. It's purely internal, it's completely natural, it's next to impossible to reverse to even the slightest degree. It's what the body's built to do. Never mind that, a little bit after that age, our chromosomal pattern begins to degrade irretrievably from sheer age, which would most certainly not be conducive to living forever- go ahead, just TRY and survive without functional DNA strands.

You can say you've researched it all you like; unless you know something nobody else does and thus can account for the fact that, according to all of modern science, you're completely wrong, you're still just as wrong.