Re: [LoGH] Life expectancy
Rikako Suzuki (rikako@syd.odn.ne.jp)
Thu, 14 Dec 2000 02:10:39 -0800
In episode #40,you can see the galactic story until they separated.
There,you see a man called Nguyen Kim Hua(Hoa) who was the best
friend of Ale Heinessen. Ale and Nguyen escaped from the empire for
another world and Ale Heinessen died by accident on the way.
"When they finally found the new world,it had already been more
than half a century "it said. Nguyen Kim Hua got old and was almost
blind. So,they were travelling more than 50 years!
And Nguyen looked very old. Then,how old was he when he left the
empire with Ale and other people? As he was Ale's best friend that
his age must have been similar to Ale(not sure though).
Then,he must have been around 30 year-old when he left the empire.
50 years later,he was around 80 year-old.
I don't say his life was common pattern. He kept on fighting and
he was really tired when he finished his journey. He might have looked
older than his age. But,still,he looked old enough at 80 years old.
As someone pointed,in LoGH,you don't see old looking people much,
(probably,they look young.) at least, they normally didn't live more
than 80 year-old if you say Gnuyen is the sample of 80 year-old man in
LoGH. Other people look much younger than he.
What do you think?
Rikako
> The life expectancy of Ancient Greece was 30-35, right?
>
> It's not uncommon to find people living until their 80's-90's today. My
> grandparents all made it to their 80's, I think my grandmother was 84 when
> she passed away.
>
> If I told someone in Ancient Greece that my grandmother lived until she was
> 84, they'd think I was crazy.
>
> Considering the medical and technological advances in LoGH, I think it
> wouldn't be uncommon to find eldery folks in the 120-130 range.
>
>
> Momopi
>
> ------Original Message------
> From: jolan@home.com
> To: logh@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
> Sent: December 13, 2000 11:35:38 PM GMT
> Subject: Re: [LoGH] Life expectancy
>
>
> 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 :)
>
>
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