Can we Live Forever?

My Tivo had recorded a Nova Science Now on KQED which is channel 190 where I live on Comcast. The name of the program is: "Can we Live Forever?" So, likely you can look for it online if you want to watch it.

They started out by showing us a 1966 Volvo which a Science Teacher had bought new in 1966 and has been driving it ever since. He has so far driven 2.7 million miles on it and it still driving the car today. It looks like a brand new car still. So, it looks now like a collectors edition car in perfect condition. He kept it going by rebuilding it first at 600,000 miles and replacing any parts that stopped working well as they stopped working. However, the car and the engine block are still the same even thought the engine now has been rebuilt 3 times.

They were saying how a human body (if it had replacement parts like hearts and livers and kidneys etc.) could basically go on almost forever too. I figure you might make 5000 to 10,000 years before you might run into difficulty growing and replacing perfect genetically designed parts that are grown from your own cells in a lab.

So, in designing ways to make the cells build things like hearts and other organs they have found you have to make a framework for the cells to start building upon. So, we are closer than you might think to growing organs and living 100, 200, 500 or 1000 years than you might have thought before watching this program.

Here. I found the video online:

Video: Can We Live Forever? | Watch NOVA scienceNOW Online ...

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Jan 26, 2011

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They also show a human ear on the back of a hairless mouse. This ear on this mouse grows perfect human cartilage which will be installed on soldiers who lost their ear in battle. And this is today not tomorrow. This is already happening. 

They also show hearts grown in a lab beating on their own and lungs made in the lab breathing on their own. 

Scientists now believe the first person to live to 150 has already been born. Recently I reported that there are at least 20,000 people alive right now in the U.S. over 100 and they expect this to grow to 40,000 or more by 2020.