mjmooney Posted March 31, 2014 VT Supporter Share Posted March 31, 2014 Only the very rich and powerful would ever get the anti-ageing drug. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dont_do_it_doug. Posted March 31, 2014 Share Posted March 31, 2014 Only the very rich and powerful would ever get the anti-ageing drug. Not necessarily. The drug company who make it won't care who gets it, they'll just want to make as much money as possible. Whether that will be selling it at £20,000 a pop or £20. It would be in HUGE demand, at the rates above they'd only need 1001 people to buy it as opposed to the 1 (very simple, read wrong, maths I know but I think you catch my drift). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted March 31, 2014 VT Supporter Share Posted March 31, 2014 Of course, everybody would have to stop having children. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrackpotForeigner Posted March 31, 2014 Share Posted March 31, 2014 I got my first grey chest hair the other day. Will the new drug be able to reverse this alarming new development? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted March 31, 2014 Share Posted March 31, 2014 something doesn't quite ring true about somebody having discovered a wonder drug that reverses aging within a week and makes you look toned and fit - but he needs to raise money for further research if the results are anywhere within 40,000 miles of what he's described he'll be beating investors off with a big stick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrackpotForeigner Posted March 31, 2014 Share Posted March 31, 2014 ^This. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coda Posted March 31, 2014 Share Posted March 31, 2014 I've had a couple of grey hairs in my eyebrows. This has led me to the conclusion that Alistair Darling dyes his eyebrows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PieFacE Posted March 31, 2014 VT Supporter Share Posted March 31, 2014 There was funding for the project apparently but it got pulled.... Saw this on reddit. "The problem is that this research has been funded before, Sirtris was paid for by ... Pfizer, maybe? [see edit] The drug (a sirtuin) was all good to go for human trials, and then a big research team poopoo'ed it in a Nature article, saying that the underlying mechanism was bogus. All funding was pulled, the project died. Except Sinclair (the researcher) kept going, and has since proven that the underlying mechanism was right all along. It is a sad story of science doing the right thing and double checking, but actually delaying what might have been a major breakthrough. Now he needs funding, presumably investors are stand-offish after the previous group lost a lot of money. Does it work? Who knows? Is he a crank? Maybe. Is it plausible these findings are entirely real? Yes. If the Nature piece never happened, we would already have an answer to these questions. Considering the claims, it probably deserves to be funded." 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coda Posted March 31, 2014 Share Posted March 31, 2014 How long would you want to live? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrackpotForeigner Posted March 31, 2014 Share Posted March 31, 2014 I'd want to live to see Aston Villa lift the league title at least one more time. So, forever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFCforever1991 Posted March 31, 2014 Share Posted March 31, 2014 I want to live up to my name, so forever... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarewsEyebrowDesigner Posted March 31, 2014 Share Posted March 31, 2014 I'm happy to age, but once things start going south, I'm out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted March 31, 2014 Share Posted March 31, 2014 If anyone was to live forever then every possible bad thing that could happen to you probably would happen to you an infinite amount of times except for dying that is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDon Posted March 31, 2014 Share Posted March 31, 2014 Anti ageing doesn't mean living forever. There's plenty of things that can kill you other than the ageing process. The only thing preventing ageing does is give you a longer time frame for Cancer to take a hold. Eventually it'll get everyone. That's if you don't die due to some other disease or get run over whilst on your way back from picking up your anti ageing prescription. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFCforever1991 Posted March 31, 2014 Share Posted March 31, 2014 Anti ageing doesn't mean living forever. There's plenty of things that can kill you other than the ageing process. The only thing preventing ageing does is give you a longer time frame for Cancer to take a hold. Eventually it'll get everyone. That's if you don't die due to some other disease or get run over whilst on your way back from picking up your anti ageing prescription. Just get it delivered, no need to go and socialise with the great unwashed... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigel Posted April 1, 2014 Author VT Supporter Share Posted April 1, 2014 To anybody wondering what Irony is, your questions will be answered when this inevitably gets linked to cancer! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFCforever1991 Posted April 1, 2014 Share Posted April 1, 2014 To anybody wondering what Irony is, your questions will be answered when this inevitably gets linked to cancer! I'm surprised the daily mail hasn't linked it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigel Posted April 4, 2014 Author VT Supporter Share Posted April 4, 2014 Liquid water ocean lurking on Saturn's moon 2014-04-04 09:33 (Shutterstock) Multimedia · User Galleries · News in Pictures Send us your pictures · Send us your stories Related Links Astronomers ring in startling asteroid find SA unveils MeerKAT technology, broadband Newfound pink world lurks at solar system fringes 'We will find ET' Scientists detect echoes of Big Bang Conservatives 'hurt' science progress Washington - A vast ocean of water could be lurking under the thick ice of one of Saturn's moons, according to findings published by Science magazine on Thursday. A sea up to 10km deep lies beneath 40km of ice at the south pole of Enceladus, extending over most of its southern hemisphere, an analysis by Nasa's Cassini probe showed. Water is considered one of the essential criteria for a planet or moon to support life. It has also been found in our solar system on Titan, also orbiting Saturn, and Europa, one of Jupiter's moons. Cassini has been exploring Saturn and its satellites since 2004. The spacecraft measured the gravity and movement of Enceladus during three flybys to calculate its internal structure. It found that the ocean probably sits on a bed of silicate rock. This could leach phosphorous, sulphur, potassium and sodium into the water, essential elements for the formation of life as we know it, study co-author Jonathan Lunine of Cornell University said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AshVilla Posted April 4, 2014 Share Posted April 4, 2014 Sounds nice I fancy a swim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PieFacE Posted April 9, 2014 VT Supporter Share Posted April 9, 2014 (edited) Charge phones in 30 secondsl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DhJZAhjbcI Edited April 9, 2014 by PieFacE 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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