Bill DeWitt wrote:

>     Last thing I heard is that unless there is a genetic breakthrough, 150
> is about it. Something about the maximum number of times a cell will replace
> itself.

Yes. Their big idea now is to make a virus that changes the regulatory gene
(which controls mitosis).

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Bill DeWitt wrote in message <389ca708@news.povray.org>...
>
>"David Fontaine" <dav### [at] faricynet> wrote :
>>
>> what will the life expectancy of a child born in say 2050 be considering
>> the pace of technological development and the recent and probable future
>> discoveries of medical science.
>>
>
>    Last thing I heard is that unless there is a genetic breakthrough, 150
>is about it. Something about the maximum number of times a cell will
replace
>itself.

They've found the breakthrough: an enzyme that repairs the ends of DNA
strands.  The only problem with it is that activating this enzyme will
increas the chance that you will get cancer.

Mark

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Gilles Tran wrote in message <389C8859.FFE4DB3F@inapg.inra.fr>...
>Hmmm, looks like I'm getting older and older every day.


This can be said of everyone, yes?

I look forward to you and work getting wiser.

Thanks for the URL.

Peter Warren
war### [at] hotmailcom

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There's a computer graphics course here at TUT. One of the projects is made
with POV-Ray (the other is a program using OpenGL).
  Guess who is the teaching assistant in the course?-)

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>  Guess who is the teaching assistant in the course?-)


Gilles?

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Simon de Vet wrote:
> 
> I remember reading a quote from a futurist: "The man who will live forever
> has already been born."
> 

Of course.  His name is Connor McLeod.

(This should go in P.O-T.)
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TonyB <ben### [at] panamac-comnet> wrote:
: Gilles?

  Nope.

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On 6 Feb 2000 06:32:18 -0500 Nieminen Juha <war### [at] punarastascstutfi>
wrote:

>  There's a computer graphics course here at TUT. One of the projects is made
>with POV-Ray (the other is a program using OpenGL).
>  Guess who is the teaching assistant in the course?-)

  Well, let's see... often a teaching assistant is also a student at the
university. Who do we know that is a student at TUT *and* knowledgable
about POV-Ray? :)

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Alan Kong <ako### [at] povrayno-spamorg> wrote:
:   Well, let's see... often a teaching assistant is also a student at the
: university. Who do we know that is a student at TUT *and* knowledgable
: about POV-Ray? :)

  Actually I got the job _thanks_ to povray.
  I was a teaching assistant in a programming course when the lecturer of
the computer graphics course came to me and sayd something like "hey, I have
seen your povray images in your page, would you like to be a teaching
assistant in my course? I have been thinking about an exercise made with
povray".
  Who said povray is useless?-)

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"Nieminen Juha" <war### [at] punarastascstutfi> wrote :
>
>   Who said povray is useless?
>

    Did somebody say that POV-Ray is useless?!?! I will have to show them
the renders I did for my friend that got him his grade in college and then
his job. Unfortunately it has not gotten -me- a decent job yet...

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