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fascinating! excellent doc – really helped me understand the whole embryonic stem cell issue debate – more than immortality though, cause i sure don’t want to live forever! – think of the help that could be done with paralysis, mental/developmental disorders, etc. well done, gang, & thanks again for bringing this to our attention. rating 4.5.

Immortality is scary. Think of an old looking vampire. Maybe stuffed with botox. That will be the face of the future elderly.. shudders. Does that mean those who live forever aren’t allowed descendants?

immortality is impossible. nothing in nature endures the bounds of time, and these people truly are fools for thinking they are above or masters of nature.

You can’t say that without fully understanding the science of it

Although the writer of the documentary was definitely trying to take it a different direction, the use of telomerase is more a cure of aging that a cure of dying, yes that means you wouldn’t necessarily die of old age but a bullet to the face could still kill you, every year you live increases the risk you’ll accumulate the right set of genetic mutations in a cell to make it cancerous, and the presence of telomerase is one of those mutations.

On the other hand everyday scientists break another natural ‘law.’ Everytime i hear something is impossible i hear of it being done a couple years later. The high goal of ancient alchemists was to develop a method of turning metals into gold and it was since deemed impossible, today through nuclear reactions we can turn just about any material into gold; it would just be very expensive.
Though alchemists never reached their goal, their pursuit of it gained them much knowledge that was used as the foundation for all modern chemistry. Who knows what we’ll learn trying to achieve immortality?
Contrary to your comment, they’d be fools not to try.

You say we’ll never be masters of nature, i say we already are, we just need to be less ignorant and reckless about how we control it.