{"id":1041811,"date":"2011-04-17T15:49:17","date_gmt":"2011-04-17T15:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/longevity-medicine\/a-few-large-numbers.php"},"modified":"2024-08-17T16:51:51","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T20:51:51","slug":"a-few-large-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/longevity-medicine\/a-few-large-numbers.php","title":{"rendered":"A Few Large Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some numbers to consider, since everyone and their dog seems to be talking about the disposition of inordinately large sums of money &#8211; and little else &#8211; at the moment:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Between 1970 and 2000, increasing life expectancy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fightaging.org\/archives\/2006\/04\/the-staggering-cost-of-aging.php\">added $3.2 trillion per year<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fightaging.org\/archives\/2008\/02\/what-is-wealth.php\">effective wealth<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fightaging.org\/archives\/2002\/12\/death-is-an-outrage-1.php\">yearly cost of natural death<\/a>: more than 50 million lives and $100 trillion in wealth.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fightaging.org\/archives\/2004\/10\/the-cost-of-sens.php\">estimated cost of developing robust rejuvenation in mice<\/a> via SENS, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fightaging.org\/archives\/2004\/11\/strategies-for-engineered-negligible-senescence.php\">Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence<\/a>: $100 million per year over ten years.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nia.nih.gov\/AboutNIA\/BudgetRequests\/FY2010\/Language.htm\">2010 budget<\/a> for the US National Institute on Aging: $1 billion.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nih.gov\/about\/budget.htm\">2010 budget<\/a> for the US National Institutes of Health: in the vicinity of $35 billion.<\/li>\n<li>The NIH comprises <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Funding_of_science\">perhaps a third<\/a> of medical research funding in the US.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fightaging.org\/archives\/2008\/04\/comments-on-the-sirtris-acquisition.php\">cost of acquiring sirtuin research company Sirtris<\/a>: $720 million. <\/p>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sens.org\/node\/1968\">2010 research budget<\/a> at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sens.org\" \/>SENS Foundation<\/a>: a little over $650,000.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We all have our ideas as to how to spend money in ways better than the choices made by its current owner. It can be frustrating when the course ahead is so very clear indeed, yet not taken &#8230; but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fightaging.org\/archives\/2001\/11\/the-importance-of-activism.php\">that is what advocacy is for<\/a>. When you have a vision, share it, persuade others, and make it happen. When you don&#8217;t like the numbers you see in front of you, work to change them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some numbers to consider, since everyone and their dog seems to be talking about the disposition of inordinately large sums of money &#8211; and little else &#8211; at the moment: Between 1970 and 2000, increasing life expectancy added $3.2 trillion &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/longevity-medicine\/a-few-large-numbers.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1246678],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1041811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-longevity-medicine"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041811"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1041811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1041811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1041811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1041811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}