I just want to explore the universe but without FTL spaceships I would need to stay alive for a very long time

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To my knowledge nothing so far discovered has extended our lifespan. So far we’ve only figured out how to stop a lot of things from prematurely ending a life.

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Anti-aging science is starting to rev up tbh. We’ve already effectively de-aged rats and cell cultures. Extrapolating that to humans is a ways off, but not impossible by any means.

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