SNUBBED NEWS STORY / LIVING FOREVER YOUNG
 
 
 

  I saw on Headline News on June 5th, 1998 i.c.c. (I think.  It may have been a day or two before or after.  As usual, it was a busy week for me) a story about someone finding a drug through longevity research that'll remove the bad stuff out of cells in mice making them live a lot longer.  It sounds like this would make people live almost forever or at least a few hundred years!  It might possibly even make the body more resistant on its own to diseases without having to rely upon drugs and would make it heal injuries faster too.

  I remember reading something like this 'cell cleaning' in a sci-fi book by Larry Niven called A World Out of Time (ISBN 0-345-25750-2.  Library of Congress (I wonder if I can get a job there?  Heh, heh.  Probably wouldn't get any work done.  Putting me in a library that big would be like putting a little kid in a candy store!) Catalogue Card Number: 76-3373).  Yeah, I've got a lot of books here at home!  Except in the book, it was something they had learned they could build after they invented teleportation.  The guy stepped into a teleportation booth, pressed the only button that was there (there were number pads like in a phone booth in the other ones that you just pressed the number, and you're instantly there) and he saw some dust form in the glass booth with no door on it that was beside the one he was in.  A few days later, his gray hair started turning dark at the roots and the rest of his body got younger too.  He figured it out later.

  Anyway, I waited for the next half-hour to watch that segment again since they repeat a story over and over again, but it wasn't there.  Hmm...  Interesting in the extreme!  Is this just one more item of repressed technology like the sleep sets that've been around since at least 1905 that would cure insomnia and would've allowed people to get 8 hours worth of sleep in only a single hour?  (More info on my Repressed Technology page here.)  Are they repressing technology that would help people live longer and making people die of old age and diseases because they feel it would change things too much like people investing more money in stocks and bonds and buying more property or because it would drastically lower business in the life insurance businesses, graveyards, funeral parlors, medical providers, drug companies, et cetera?  Hmm...  Am I thinking too paranoid are just not enough?  The story was obviously pulled by someone for some reason but there wasn't even an explanation offered.  That makes me think bad things for some odd reason.  :-(  I hate it when there are snubbed news stories that sound good.

  Wouldn't it be great if we were all able to live forever young?  :-)  :-)  :-)  Imagine it.  You can study as much as you want to (or that they'll allow you access to anyway.  This alone is worth it in my book! Can you imagine how much more a scientist that can keep going for a few centuries more can discover?), enjoy many more decades of life instead of working for 47 or more years (from 18 years of age up to 65 for those not following the math here) and then retiring when you're no longer able to enjoy life to its fullest?  Too bad we're not allowed to do that.  :-(  Hey, if the politicians really wanted to save the Social Security system like they're trying to convince us that they are, they'd allow this stuff to be used by people and then raise the retirement age up a few hundred years (depending on the upper age limit the drug can keep you young) of when people can start collecting Social Security benefits.  More than likely people would keep working for as long as they can to keep making money and boosting up their benefit amounts.  I think it might also lower the number of people on disability too.  Okay, so I'm a dreamer.  I'll admit it.  It sounds like fun.  :-)

  If this technology is being repressed by businesses that would lose their income if it was used, then maybe if a person discovered something this good, they should publish their findings on the Web and also send out e-mails to everyone they know and encourage others to make copies of it and send it to others.  That way, even if they remove the original Web page, it would be extremely difficult (if not impossible) to find everyone who got a copy of the data.

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