>I think what happens is people get this picture in their mind of someone that looks like a damned ghoulish skeleton if they live to be 150, which is just silly.
Far from silly it is what has happened to everyone who lived to be even 120 or 90. And the people know enough people to know it.
So they answered based on actual experience and observation instead of wishy washy Kurzeill-like hopes...
Why would one call this silly?
It's like calling someone who thinks that travelling to Africa and back to SF every day tiring "silly", because he doesn't take into account the possibility of tele-portation...
Far from silly it is what has happened to everyone who lived to be even 120 or 90. And the people know enough people to know it.
So they answered based on actual experience and observation instead of wishy washy Kurzeill-like hopes...
Why would one call this silly?
It's like calling someone who thinks that travelling to Africa and back to SF every day tiring "silly", because he doesn't take into account the possibility of tele-portation...