Re: [LoGH] Life expectancy
Michael Mikulis (mmikulis@hotmail.com)
Fri, 15 Dec 2000 04:11:47
While that is useful information, it is partially useful on life expectancy. 80 was/is considered old. Also, his group only had the emdical supplies avail;able when they left in their ships. And came from a barren effectively penal colony too.
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>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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