Life Expectancy of the Average Sirius Human

[Xing]

60, because everyone dies in space...

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[AdamantineFist]

60, because everyone dies in space...

Except most people probably never die in space, because they never leave their home planet.

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[Xing]

i am not sure...

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[AdamantineFist]

I'd imagine that the vast majority of your average-Joe types would just stay in their little burgs and work at their ordinary, everyday jobs. Going off-planet would be like going all the way across the country... and they happen to live in Russia/Canada.

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[Camtheman Of Freelancer4Ever]

Uh... to be old enough to be on a sleeper ship... you would have to be...

800+

Yeah no.

Just. No.

Meh, Some rich diamond > niobium traders might live to 300 if they are rich enough to be immortal-by-age but still-killable-by-a-gun.

[Leo]

in Sirius child is born, grows up, gets married, has children, meets Mons'tar...the end

Doom just won the thread.

~Leo

P.S. Cardamine induced people are well over 150, I remember reading an info card that said a Don had died at 200+ I think.

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You fear oblivion. Yet you forget. The universe remembers every atom of your being. Even dust hums your name in the dark.

[tazuras]

Uh... to be old enough to be on a sleeper ship... you would have to be...

800+

Yeah no.

What if they were never taken out of stasis for some reason? Someone could RP it I think. It had better be pretty good though, you better have extensive knowledge of the alliance, the war with the coalition and the conditions in the Sol System when the sleeper ships left.

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[FooFighter]

You wouldn't even have to stay in stasis. Just upload your brain to a computer or cyborg shell or use advanced nanomachines that repair your body all the time. Remember, we're talking about the future here - even if this technology may not be available to your average Joe (he might not even know about is, because governments could deliberately keep these technologies secret), it's certainly available to the extremely wealthy and powerful.

[Derkylos]

Relativity.

Trade lanes facilitate super luminary travel. While traveling at the speed of light (one cannot exceed C), time has next to no effect. As such, any time spent in the trade lanes has little effect on the aging of the pilot.

So, theoretically, long distance cargo haulers could live much longer than the standard planetside citizen.

Even someone on a very short, safe route (say Manhattan to West Point) will pass through a considerable distance/time in a trade lane. This will, over time, have a significant effect on their "lifespan" in comparison to someone who never uses trade lanes (say a Corsair hauling from Crete to Tripoli-also a safe, short route, but no trade lanes involved). Of course, for the trade lane user, they do not "feel" as tho they had lived for so long-they will only "feel" 40 years old or whatever...

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[Xing]

sounds like we should build more trade lane...

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