Re: planets
| From: | Padraic Brown <pbrown@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, December 22, 1999, 17:56 |
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On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Nik Taylor wrote:
>"Grandsire, C.A." wrote:
>> How short? IIRC, humans' lifespans were also very short at the
>> beginning (how many years? 20?).
>
>For Humans, around 30 or so, I believe, except for the lucky; and,
Yes indeed. Real lucky to be alive at 45 or so with no hygiene, no
medicine to speak of, little or no understanding of disease and
injury treatment.
>AFAIK, the maximum lifespan hasn't changed at all - around 115 or so, I
>think, in our entire history as Homo sapiens.
Soon enough they'll probably be able to reliably twiddle about with
the factors that make this so. I've read estimates that 200 or more
years is / will be possible in the not-too-awful-distant future.
Padraic.