Live Long Enough to Live Forever

djj6835 · #1 12-01-2005, 03:56 PM

Correct me if I'm wrong here, but I always thought the main thing that limits our life expectancy is simply the fact that we breathe and live in an ogygen rich environment. Oxygen is fairly corrosive and causes our bodies to deteriorate at a faster rate than they would in other elements. I think I remember reading somewhere that if we breathed helium instead of oxyen, our average life expectancy would be about 250 years.

Ulysses · #2 12-01-2005, 04:01 PM

Shajen,

There can only be one in the end. They start out with a lot and fight until there is only one, who gets The Prize.

Have a good lunch,
El Diablo

SteamingFish · #3 12-01-2005, 09:23 PM

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Shajen,

There can only be one in the end. They start out with a lot and fight until there is only one, who gets The Prize.

Have a good lunch,
El Diablo

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But in the t.v. show, the Highlander guy trains the annoying sidekick to also be immortal (actually, I think he just says, "Okay, you're immortal now, too." and THEN starts training him.) So couldn't they just keep adding more and more people? That part really confused me.

MonkeeMan · #4 12-01-2005, 04:18 PM

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I think I remember reading somewhere that if we breathed helium instead of oxyen, our average life expectancy would be about 250 years.

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And we would sound like chipmunks when talking.

diebitter · #5 12-01-2005, 04:31 PM

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I think I remember reading somewhere that if we breathed helium instead of oxyen, our average life expectancy would be about 250 years.

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And we would sound like chipmunks when talking.

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plus there's no way a biology could have evolved or even started that could be based on an inert gas. Or maybe I'm being Mr Picky.