Presidents Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin have been caught on a hot mic talking about the potential of medicine to extend human life spans and "perhaps even achieve immortality".

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A live-stream broadcast of China’s military parade has captured Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin discussing biotechnology’s potential to extend life.

An interpreter translating Mr Putin can be heard saying in Mandarin that human organ transplants could let “us live younger and younger, and perhaps even achieve immortality”.

Mr Xi responded that it may be possible for people to live to 150 years this century.

  • AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    16 hours ago

    Okay, just because you think can live that long physically doesn’t mean you’ll be there mentally. You can do all these transplants to keep your body going, but I don’t think we’ve figured out how to replace the brain without killing someone since I doubt healthy living and organ transplants are gonna keep the brain healthy enough to be mentally fit to do much of anything.

    Also, I personally wouldn’t want people like them to be living that long.