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I watched the movie "bicentennial man" (literally, the 200 year old man) and it got me thinking; 80-90 years old the proper age limit of a human. After that life is being artificially extended. During the middle ages and caveman times people didn't live that long, for millions of years. Only recently
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I don't know about "caveman times" but there are lots of ancient medieval people who lived to be 80 or 90, even 100. Basically once you live past childhood in an era with a high child mortality rate, there's nothing really stopping you from living as long as modern people. (Well, there are diseases
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OK, thanks. That makes sense. Wow, I never realized what a complicated process this is. I just assumed it was a simple matter of sending out episode 1, then 2, then 3, etc. Just as simple as me watching the boxed DVD set at home, and watching them in order. Thanks.
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