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Dr. Aubrey de Grey is co-founder and chief science officer of the Strategies for Engineered Negligible Sciences Foundation, a group of brainiacs and Oasis fans who want us all to live forever. De Grey believes that the human body is like an...

Dr. Aubrey de Grey is co-founder and chief science officer of the Strategies for Engineered Negligible Sciences Foundation, a group of brainiacs and Oasis fans who want us all to live forever. De Grey believes that the human body is like an extremely complex classic car, and like the classic cars of, say, a Jay Leno, our bodies can run like they did when they were young for an indefinite amount of time provided the proper maintenance, what de Grey refers to as Human Regenerative Engineering. In addition to living for hundreds or thousands of years, Aubrey believes we will also stay as smart as 30somethings and as sexy as 20somethings. Basically Logan's Run minus Carousel.

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As easy as it is to write off the Aub as yet another post-Kurzweilian weirdbeard, we're willing to give his believings the benefit of the doubt on the bases on de Grey's Ph.D. in biology from Cambridge, and the fact that his book Ending Aging makes a whole lot of sense when you really think about. And also because we are staunch proponents of "Fuck Oldness."

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