More wishful thinking, much like fusion power is only 10 years away.
There seems to be a hard stop for humans at about 115 years. The
oldest person in the world is usually a woman 114 years old, and that
stays constant, while the individual holding that record changes every
couple of weeks to couple of months.
Modern medicine has managed to shift the mode and median closer to the
mean, and the mean closer to the far end of the range, but hasn't really
changed the range all that much in lifespans, and has managed to do that
mostly by eliminating childhood, especially early childhood mortality.
When we have a well documented individual who has managed to actually
managed to live beyond 116 years let me know.
On 7/13/2019 7:50 AM, Alan C wrote:
They say the first person to live to 200 is already alive. It may well
be you!
BTW, I thought you guys over there were heavy into cycling?
Alan C
On 13-Jul-19 12:15 PM, Ralf R Radermacher wrote:
Am 12.07.19 um 22:38 schrieb Paul Stenquist:
DC electric vehicle chargers that operate on solar power are on the
near horizon.
All this is good and well for people living in the suburbs or the
countryside. But what about us city dwellers? Most people in Europe live
in urban appartments and we have no roof to put our PV systems and no
garages or driveways to charge our cars. We can't just dangle a cable
out of a window on the 3rd floor because that would require finding a
spot for parking below said window. Might work once every two or three
years...
I'm afraid our future will be one without owning cars. We already have a
number of car-sharing companies around and they look like the solution
for the mid-term future. I've had a look at their prices and they'd be
acceptable if I restricted my driving to the bare minimum, i.e. no more
shopping trips to neighbouring Belgium and no more leisurely drive
across the countryside. Then again, sooner than later we won't be able
to afford any of this. They're currently discussing a CO2 tax that would
double or triple our fuel prices and that would be the end of it anyway.
Being from a generation that has grown up with cars and individual
mobility, I'll be 65 in a few weeks and I must say the idea that I won't
be around in 10 or 20 years has lost a lot of its horror recently.
Ralf
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