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Sure, we all want more life, but just what are will to do to get our hands on a few extra decades or even centuries of eating, pooping and whining? In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, we will roll out the “Blade Runner” references willy-nilly and discuss mankind’s ongoing quest for biological immortality — or even cyber immortality. Because really, we’ll take whatever we can get if it means dodging the big dirt nap at the end of life.
Just consider the Hayflick limit, which genetically caps human life at a very feeble 120 years of age. Recent telomere research, however, suggests we could live to be a robust 1,000 years old if we really want it.
Considering that he wrote the source material for some of the most innovative science fiction movies ever made (“Blade Runner,” “Total Recall” and “A Scanner Darkly,” just to name three), it’s about time that the literary world gave sci-fi icon Philip K. Dick the respect he so richly deserves. Oh … wait. It just did.
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