Aubrey de Grey - Reddit AMA Video Responses

The Foundation's Chief Science Officer, Dr Aubrey de Grey, responds to questions selected by the Reddit community (here: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments...)

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  Science & Technology

[JerryFro26]

I think the giant beard is supposed to compensate for this guy's giant brain

[behnamasid2]

Jesus is back!

[temporarymusician]

brilliant! that made me laugh :)

[Comissao Biomed]

Excellent!

[1lhaa]

Nice response

[shoopdeedoop]

it has already been done! Quite a few years back they printed a mouse heart which actually beat for a short time.

[Izabelle BN]

Why are you so negative? I mean please he's not the only one talking about this, there are many people who is professionals and renowned for their works who supports this idea, and yeah I know that he is a little weird, but he has attracted scientist and there are lot of scientist who recognizes his work and goals. Why can't you give him a chance, I mean what can you lose from it except your negative thoughts?

[enchiladaplatter1]

how do these people not realize how stupid they sound talking with their large words and grandiose ideas when all he is saying is "yeah we haven't solved the its poisonous and little cracks problems". I'm not saying don't dream big, I'm saying achieve balance and get a life (you don't have a life without death, just an immortal egotistical selfish prick of a thing floating or some shit). grow up, we've all thought about death. Find comfort that karl rove will never be immortal either.

[MultiSanguinius555]

and to answer your first question "will only be for the rich" yes this is for all technologies at first remember 10 years ago the mobile phone was so expensive and was crappy at the only thing it could do now its inexpensive and you can use it 1million ways and its good. :) hope i helped you

[MultiSanguinius555]

you said industrial world...by the time this happens we will have gone out from coal and fossil fuels dude... ray kurzweil predicts that solar panels will be feasible by 2015 - 2016 so yeah dude were moving away from fossil fuels. if you want to know more looks up peter diamandis or watch ray kurzweil. i think you will have a changed mindset after.

good luck man.

[Philip Greenwood]

There's another answer to the "what unconventional thing should I do significantly extend my life" question: Get or stay rich. At least initially, such advanced technologies will only be for the rich. Currently 2 billion people light their homes with Kerosene and burn charcoal for cooking...the impact of life extension for the masses leads to some huge ethical questions - the idea of mass use, amongst the high environmentally impacting industrialized world makes me highly uneasy!