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Re:A growing body of research shows that life gets better as... by wyager on Monday December 01, 2014 @06:33PM (#8684775)
>humans don't live longer than about 120 years

That's not a hard limit. There are a number of promising avenues of research likely to push human lifespan substantially higher.

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Re:A growing body of research shows that life gets better as... by tsotha on Tuesday December 02, 2014 @02:30AM (#8686104)
Actually, it's a pretty hard limit based on cell death. You can never predict when an amazing breakthrough will come about, but without it you're not going to see people living to 150.
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