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A CRONie at the CRS said:

> CRONie_b wrote:
>

>> ...it seems to be claiming that the greatest possible
>> maximum human LS has already been obtained.
>>
>> What could the basis of such a comment?
>>
>
> Well I think you have to take into consideration the fact that the human
> population is around 6 billion. So it may seem likely that we may have
> already seen the upper limits of human life span.

"Maximum life span" in scientific studies is *usually*
defined to be the
mean life span of the most long-lived 10% decile of the
population. The
population size doesn't make any difference - except at
*very* small sizes.

I suppose it /is/ possible that these guys are using a
definition like
the one on:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum_life_span

...instead - and intend their comment to refer to Jeanne
Calment's lifespan.

> But I guess we will never really know whether CR takes us past 110, 120,
> 130 or whatever... because other life extending technologies will
> probably be available at the time.

Exactly. So much for the "maximum life span potential
appears to have
already been achieved".