msg wrote:
TheM wrote:

"nospam" wrote in message
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Pete Wilcox wrote:


Folks our age are going to die of *something* in
two or three decades, regardless. I think that mercury, or lead, or
whatever-other-heavy-metal poisoning is the least of our worries.


We are disposable containers for our genes.

I think there is a quite reasonable argument that with our bodies having
(by design) a limited life if they are not knackerd and contaminated
by the
time we die we have to some degree wasted them.



I wonder, should we ever be able to extend our lives to hundreds of
years,
what that might mean for our lifestyle.
Living extremely healthy and avoiding pollution of all kinds, perhaps?


Also ensuring that a frontier is available; e.g. serious efforts at
off-world
colonization.

Michael

"the meek shall inherit the earth"

because the brave will be out conquering the universe.

Cheers
Terry