Wednesday, February 08, 2006

How much is in our hands?

How long do we want to live and is it in our hands how long we live? The other day I heard of someone who is in his 70's and wishes to live 100 years strongly believing that its in his hands .... he has been exercising regularly for 40 years and eats healthy and is a professor who is actively involved in his work .....
Today I happened to come across this article: soon millions will live until 100

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Incidents : I got lost again trying to find my way through the dark and confusing shortcuts of Raleigh ...its time to get a GPS honey :) He said that won't help, that I should get one fitted into my brain .... wonder if that can happen someday ....like a couple of centuries from now ...or like Nanz (our 7 year old nephew says) a zillion billion years from now ! Coming to think of it the earth won't exist zillion billion years from now.... life will cease to exist much much before that ....a planetarium show at the museum of science in Boston had an interesting show on supernovas which opened my eyes towards the fact that there will be a day when the earth becomes inhabitable, the sun's energy dies out .....the question is will we be smart enough to preserve our species by then? Will we be able to produce energy by then? Will we be able to artificially create life? Or can we encapsulate our earth from the perils of the galaxy? Don't know ...... jst wondering

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