X-Message-Number: 16044 Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 11:00:34 -0700 From: Hugh Hixon <> Subject: Misadventure As A Cause Of Death In An Immortal Population In Message #16042, "john grigg" <> wrote, >Was it Joe Hovey who did a fascinating study which said based on current >statistics we could expect to live only about 1,500 years due to the unsafe >nature of our present world? "Misadventure As A Cause Of Death In An Immortal Population", by Hugh Hixon is available as Cryomessage #0016 in the Cryonet archives. The half-life of an immortal population is estimated at 1654 years, due to solely to accidents and homicide, with lots of *caveats*, and is really pretty conservative (pessimistic). Read the article, and supply your own guesses. Hugh Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=16044