Live a thousand years? Not if nature has its' way

Hurricane Wilma pounded Mexico leaving lives and the tourism industry shattered in its' wake. It defiled the protectionary breakers designed to protect the seaports of Cuba flooding over half a mile inward. It is now striking Floridians still shell-shocked from over a dozen other storms this year alone.

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In August, a killer tornado (one of hundreds that touch down in the midwestern part of the United States) cleared a swath a half a mile wide extending for 17 miles. Everything in its' path destroyed.

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Earthquake ravaged Pakistan is still decimated by aftershocks that are almost unoticed by the weary area residents. Read here for a first hand account by a young college girl from that region. We're talking almost 80,000 dead.

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Typhoons in the Asia Pacific pummeled the Japanese coastal area killing and destroying like it was one of the Japanese developed video games.

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A Tsunami resulting from an earthquake in the Indian Ocean drowned entire cities, towns and villages. The aftermath, over 180,000 dead or missing. Entire families wiped off of the face of the earth.

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Severe rains caused flooding and landslides throughout central America and up into California. And similarly, rains swelled rivers in eastern and western Europe flooding ancient cities like never before.

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Mount Washington, our areas own high point known for the world worst weather hosted snow fall breaking previous records last weekend. They had 38 inches fall between Saturday and Monday morning. Check out these pictures here.

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Then, there is Aubrey de Grey, a 42-year-old English biogerontologist (that's a biological scientist who studies aging either from a physiological, biological or molecular biological position). Dr. de Grey argues that people today could easily be living 1000 years or longer if we could previent or even reverse the negative effects of the human condition. These "effects" have decimated the human cellular and molecular machinery such that we see death as normative at age 40-80 years. And, assuming that he is correct, we may once again attain the ages witnessed thousands of years ago of 300, 400 or even 900 year for the common man. That is, of course, if he is able to avoid the catastrophic events epiphanied in this past years headlines around the world. Avoiding a cold is one thing. Avoiding hurricanes, tornados, floods, earthquakes, mudslides, and tsunamis is quite another.

It's somewhat biblical though to consider that God once enabled a several hundred year old man named Noah to build an ark to escape the impending world-wide flood that He was going to send upon the face of the earth. What if.....?