Re: [LoGH] Life expectancy
jolan@home.com
Wed, 13 Dec 2000 18:35:38 -0500
According to the LoGH novels, the life expectancy should be 100. I forgot
where in the novels I got this piece of information, but I am rather positive
about this.
"'Vejita' S. Cousin" wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Victor Xing wrote:
> > > What do you think is the average life expectancy in LoGH universe?
> >
> > Should be around 50, due to constant warfare, poverty in outlying planets
> > and high crime rate.
>
> But look at the technology they have (eg. replacement limbs), that
> most of the population isn't actually fighting and the outlying planets
> didn't look poor so much as rural.
> I mean the world is pretty screwed up now and (in the USA) the life
> expectancy is ~74. So I'm going to go with 90-100yrs old.
>
> Mind you, you almost never see any old people in LoGH :)
