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"If we can prepare for it socially, politically and institutionally, and if we keep birth rates low..."
Your quote above is unlikely to happen for at least another century. Your scientific aspiration is noble and at the same time naive. What would happen is that a rich minority would live longer while the majority of humans would linger with ailments. My advice to you would be not to pursue this because it would fall in the wrong hands, like many other scientific discoveries have done so. All the best.
posted by Bruna Iotti Tapper
June 20, 2011
About once a month at Sigma Xi headquarters, we liven up the lunch hour with an American Scientist Pizza Lunch talk. In these informal lectures, scientists describe new research to nonscientists. The series is light on jargon but heavy on solid science. Each Pizza Lunch offers an in-depth look at its subject, whether it's bedbugs or the smart grid. Click below to read about and download these talks -- and to subscribe!
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