From: Rik van Riel (riel@humbolt.geo.uu.nl)
Date: Mon Sep 20 1999 - 05:20:39 MDT
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Jeff Davis wrote:
> population is plainly reasonable--let's just say that a doubled lifespan is
> achieved in 50 years--from max age 100 to max age 200--and that in the
That can't be right. It'll take at least 150 years until the
first human turns 200. The reason for that is very simple:
the very old people from nowadays are too 'fragile' to live
another century.
And, of course, we don't have any 150 year-olds now, so nobody
will turn 200 in 50 years :)
Rik
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