is aging genetically controlled.

--- In spacesettlers, "Omar E. Vega" wrote:

> I agree. Pehaps genetics won't solve much. After all, every complex
> system suffers aging. It is just a matter of seeing a ten years old
> car in Canadian wheather.

But with proper maintainance, there are folks still tooling around in
Model T's.

> Besides, who would want dictators that live forever?

How many of history's dictators died of "old age?" They usually die
well before the infirmities of age catch up with them.

> To learn to live one also has to learn to die, and make room for
> future generations.

OK. You first.