Is the First 150 Year Old Human Alive Today? Should Science Help People Live Into Extreme Old Age? Any Consequences? Or Have Humans Already Conquered Life Expectancy Over the Past Century?

The Best Paragraph I've Read: As the global population approaches eight billion, and science discovers increasingly promising ways to slow or reverse aging in the lab, the question of human longevity's potential limits is more urgent than ever.  When their work is examined closely, it's clear that longevity scientists hold a wide range of nuanced perspectives on the future of humanity.  Historically, however - and somewhat flippantly, according to many researchers - their outlooks have been divided into two broad camps, which some journalists and researchers call the pessimists and the optimists.  Those in the first group view life span as a candle wick that can burn for only so long.  They generally think that we are rapidly approaching, or have already reached, a ceiling on life span, and that we will not witness anyone older than Calment anytime soon.   In contrast, the optimists see life span as a supremely, maybe even infinitely elastic band.  They anticipate considerable gains in life expectancy around the world, increasing numbers of extraordinarily long-lived people - and eventually, supercentenarians who outlive Calment, pushing the record to 125, 150, 200 and beyond.  Though unresolved, the long-running debate has already inspired a much deeper understanding of what defines and constrains life span - and of the interventions that may one day significantly extend it.   This paragraph comes from the New York Times Magazine in an article titled: "How Long Can We Live?"  The article is written by Ferris Jabr.  You can read the article here: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/28/magazine/human-lifespan.html Zac and Don discuss the implications for having humans living until the age of 150 and beyond.  They talk about some of the methods scientists are researching.  They also talk about the possible consequences if humans begin to live this long.  In addition, Zac and Don talk about whether humans have already solved the aging question by increasing average life expectancy over the last century. Zac and Don