Wrap your mind around this!

[CorvallisBMW]

Land mass isn't the problem with overpopulation, resource availability and distribution is. And it's currently an issue.

Exactly. It's not that we don't have the physical room to fit more people, it's that we don't have the resources to sustain them at current standards of living, let alone with the developing world getting ever more 'developed'. It's one thing to have 2B+ Chinese and Indians living in poverty, but it's quickly becoming 2B+ of middle class who use 10x the resources.

Also, it takes 40-50 years after birth rates to go down for population curves to even begin to level off. China instituted the 1-child policy in 1979, 31 years ago. And their population is still exploding.

[Raxe]

Land mass isn't the problem with overpopulation, resource availability and distribution is. And it's currently an issue.

[GOOBER]

Lets hope they never figure out how to do that to humans, the world is getting overpopulated as it is.

Birthrates are actually declining globally, and the U.S. is historically underpopulated considering how much land we actually have. Populations are just concentrated in cities mainly, though it seems otherwise. Just sayin.

[Peterkaczynski]

thats epic

[Wiglaf]

No one will live 300+yrs if socialized medicine takes over. The research will stop and or be so over controlled that no breakthroughs will ever be found.

lol.. was only a matter of time before someone brought this into it.

[Moto-Mucci]

I think once all this technology that is being hyped up starts to come out, humans will be virtually immortal as one technology lets you live until the next one comes out allowing you to live even longer, and so on and so on.

There was a guy who spoke at one of the T.E.D. conferences who spoke more in depth on this theory. It was a pretty amazing presentation, I wish I could remember his name. He looked absolutely insane but his theories made sense.

[SamE30e]

^^^ Take your tinfoil hat off.

[ALYKZANDYR]

No one will live 300+yrs if socialized medicine takes over. The research will stop and or be so over controlled that no breakthroughs will ever be found.

[Kershaw]

some of the population.

but they need to get fit, or gtfo.

[mar1t1me]

Humans will live 400 years by the close of this century. Mark my words oh internet, mark my words.

And at the rate we're getting fatter, weigh 500lbs.....

[bloodshot-e30]

Wouldn't that be a trip, man? We figure out how to prolong life but Cancer still kills you... just a lot slower (relatively speaking).

haha that would be completely nuts!
id be like 300 years!!!! NO SHIT!! haha

[ck_taft325is]

"I'm sorry Mr. Johnson, you have cancer. You have only 300 years left"

Wouldn't that be a trip, man? We figure out how to prolong life but Cancer still kills you... just a lot slower (relatively speaking).

[bloodshot-e30]

jesus christ!! thats CRAZY!

[DatUtahGuy]

"I'm sorry Mr. Johnson, you have cancer. You have only 300 years left"

[StereoInstaller1]

I am not gonna live forever but my farts do.