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At the risk of derailing this thread, our life expectancy isn't even at 100 yet. And in fact, its not even reliably at 80 even if that is the average.Jonathan101 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 29, 2022 12:41 pm In other news, Jared Kushner believes he's either part of the last generation to die or the first to live forever.
He thinks / hopes that he's going to be literally immortal.
Life expectency isn't something I'd expect to gradually rise continually. It's increased to where it has due to being able to deal with a lot of things that killed us off before the body starts falling apart on its own, and we've not got anything really to deal with that.clearspira wrote: ↑Sat Sep 03, 2022 8:52 amAt the risk of derailing this thread, our life expectancy isn't even at 100 yet. And in fact, its not even reliably at 80 even if that is the average.Jonathan101 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 29, 2022 12:41 pm In other news, Jared Kushner believes he's either part of the last generation to die or the first to live forever.
He thinks / hopes that he's going to be literally immortal.
Jared Kushner is a nut.
Life expectancy in the US is actually going down.clearspira wrote: ↑Sat Sep 03, 2022 8:52 amAt the risk of derailing this thread, our life expectancy isn't even at 100 yet. And in fact, its not even reliably at 80 even if that is the average.Jonathan101 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 29, 2022 12:41 pm In other news, Jared Kushner believes he's either part of the last generation to die or the first to live forever.
He thinks / hopes that he's going to be literally immortal.
Jared Kushner is a nut.
I am reminded of Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
That's certainly accounted for the lion's share of average life expectancy numbers; quotes of "back centuries ago someone over 40 would've been old" are the result of misunderstanding the impact of infant mortality. You'd have been lucky to survive childhood, but if you did going on to forty wouldn't have been too surprising.
Exactly. A better figure for life expectancy would count anyone who lived past let's say 16.Riedquat wrote: ↑Sat Sep 03, 2022 8:15 pmThat's certainly accounted for the lion's share of average life expectancy numbers; quotes of "back centuries ago someone over 40 would've been old" are the result of misunderstanding the impact of infant mortality. You'd have been lucky to survive childhood, but if you did going on to forty wouldn't have been too surprising.
We have made some progress at the top end though, with more people living in to their 80s or 90s. But the absolute top hasn't really been pushed. There were always a few people who made it to a hundred. Not as many as now, but still about the same ceiling.