01-14-2023, 05:02 PM
Seven standard deviations is roughly one in 390 billion. I suspect that as the average age at death rises, the standard deviations of ages at death also shrink. Unless there is some means of slowing aging or allowing more divisions of cells in a lifetime (that seems to be the real cause of aging, with more cell divisions typically manifesting themselves as cancer), I would doubt that anyone now born will be around in the 2170's.
How long ago was 150 years? Charles Ives, Sergei Rachmaninov, and Sir Winston Churchill were born in 1874. Some of us can remember when Churchill was still alive, but that is stretching things.
How long ago was 150 years? Charles Ives, Sergei Rachmaninov, and Sir Winston Churchill were born in 1874. Some of us can remember when Churchill was still alive, but that is stretching things.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.