Recent content by immortalist

That's great, but you've just glossed over everything I was interested in hearing. I could have read that in any newspaper. I'm more interested in - What are the fundamental roadblocks? What exactly is stopping immortality? What kinds of machines could accelerate research or make things...

Well, you're unrepentently anti-what-I-say. Kudos for consistency. I'll just let go of discussing those here, I won't get a reasonable response. Do you have any ideas of your own about potential life-extension ideas. I'm talking about multi-decade extension.

You earlier indicated telomerase was a potential treatment with side effect risk of cancer. And your arguments about hacking away are disingenuous. The cyberknife system is a commercial and automated cancer therapy. Focused ultrasound is also being commercialized. You might have a point about...

But we're not talking about cancer only here. We're talking about kickstarting regeneration with telomerase so things like hearts and lungs and pancreas regrow, then making sure too much growth or cancer doesn't occur by zapping it with beams.

My original post was about regular, even daily, treatment with beams. Get the cost down to a few hundred/thousand dollars and have them in everyone's home. Fighting cancer would be a continual everyday affair, like eating food, to sustain life. Furthermore, I don't see why all cancers couldn't...

About the telomeres. This ties in with what I was looking for about focused ultrasound or cyberknife. If there is a risk of cancer with the regrowing of telomeres, that risk can be mitigated by regular targeting of cancer with the beams. So a steady state of continual safe regeneration occurs.

I did give links, for Focused Ultrasound Foundation, Discover magazine, lecture by a pioneer in ECMO at a prestigious medical school. I understand the purpose of rules like that, it's to keep out snake oil websites, but the links I gave are not that quite obviously. But OK. I will search for...

You guys are really piling on there. So now I'm expected to be a semi-expert with papers in hand. Even a lecture by a pioneer in a field is too low brow. OK then, let's just it leave at that. I think it's a political game now and I've accidentally offended the big wigs on here.

What is physically possible and what is currently medically possible are two different things. I had assumed this forum would allow the discussion of what is physically possible. I'm not a professional biomedical scientist and I haven't had the time to look through the literature on this, that's...

Ok, I get it. The physics of things is acceptable except when it's on the medical forum, when it's branded speculative. Some distinguished researchers I've spoken with don't think it's too speculative, but anyway, let's abide by the confused rules on here. Anyway, thank you for the unbridled...

Look, I think you're completely missing the nature of my post. I'm looking for hypotheticals, I thought this was a physics site. I'm well aware the current state of the art is there yet, otherwise it would be big news that death has been eradicated. The pixie dust thing I had seen in a BBC...

Thank you for the reply. However, I think you misinterpreted what I was asking for. I am asking for a future hypothetical where unlimited funds are available. Of course that selective destructive/regeneration capability is not available today. I'm speaking about whether it is...

Focused ultrasound is a non-invasive surgical method http://www.fusfoundation.org/MRgFUS-Overview/about-focused-ultrasound-surgery It's non-invasive imaging method can be MRI or even ultrasound itself. So we have a method for precisely destroying and precisely releasing chemical in any...