pretty soon

I give it 0 years

40*

the thing is we will be old by then

aging will be stopped before then ofc

tbh I don't think it'll come so fast but again

future is unpredictable

you'd have people in the past predicting that by 2018 we surely would have flying cars and vast colonies on Mars or something

they didn't predict the Internet tho, no one knows really

ye but these people were dumb obv

i am smart

this

yeah

Immortality, best case scenario: 2045.

I honestly think it would be easier to discover how to make people immortal than to find "cure for cancer"

not because it would be so easy to attain immortality, but that it's going to be so fucking hard to cure every kind of cancer

so if people became immortal, they'd still die from cancer eventually

ummm

but that are related things

cancer probability grows with age

and you can't really call yourself "immortal" if you die of cancer at 80

sure, that's why I'm saying curing cancer is harder, because you don't die "from old age", but because something is failing you

if you stop ageing you stop the single most important cause of cancer

old age = many things are failing

these things are inherently intertwined

you'd need a perfect replication system for your body cells to be immortal and that would also mean a perfect cancer (sorry for my kindergarten understanding of biology)

what

cancer is basically your cells going haywire, right

?

if they were able to replicate perfectly, but not perfectly enough for something to go wrong, wouldn't that cause the nastiest imaginable cancer?

no, biological immortality doesn't imply cancer, not at all

there are organisms that are biologically immortal and they don't really die of cancer

it's not that much about perfect replicating

ageing is a complex process but i.e one of the direct causes are telemeres(the ending part of DNA) getting shorter and shorter with every replication

telomeres are meant to protect the genetic material, but with age they slowly dissappear

there are organisms that can regenerate them

and you don't need everything to be done perfectly, sometimes there is a "mistake" but as long as you have strong repair mechanisms, your cells aren't worn down, your organism will handle that

fix the error or terminate the damaged cells

it's likely that every minute you have "cancers" appearing somewhere in your body but there are special lymphocytes called NK to get rid of them

so the most important thing is to maintain this self repair mechanism