life expectancy of an enginer

Your question is about life expactancy of the engineers. I have a friend who is a microbiologist. According to him every time a cell replicates a small piece of the dna sequence gets cut off. As a person gets older the cell starts to become less efficient at what it does. So eventually a person will die as his organs eventually will become unable to do their job. For humans that is the order of 110 to 120 years. So using this as a theorising basis: If the engineers created us it may be that this cutting of dna sequence was programmed into us. So if they are able to manipulate dna in such a manner, they can probably change their own dna to whatever they like. So they would be able to prevent this by simply not coding their dna to cut a piece of the dna everytime a cell replicates. But as brain cells cannot replicate I don't know how long an engineer's brain would be able to function as free radicals will cause oxidation of it I think. Maybe they have technology that slows the oxidative process down or can reverse it. So what is their lifespan ? Maybe in the order of about 800 - 1200 years ? The engineer"s ship is probable a lot faster than the prometheus ship. So how far on average do the engineer's travel At a time? Say at 30 times the speed of light at an average of 5 years per journey = 150 lightyears. I guess they won't spend more than 10 years (naximum) in hypersleep at a time ? Purely guessing here. No factual basis.

djamelameziane › lolololololol. [img]http://i3.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/000/400/immortal.jpg[/img]

Totally and certifiable F-en Crazy... and sir I am the Ring Master of this Circus of Sci Fan-dom. LOL "Let the show go on!"

I think the Engineers can live like a really REALLY Long time, like, STUPID long, like, OMG that's long.

*bows to the Master*

Those two are definitely immortal. Nothing could kill them.

djamelameziane: are you into Black Metal?

@zzplural I used the word first? I used the word first - but in an anecdotal context?.....I'm not sure what point it is you imagine you're making as, thereafter, you chose to support, actually, the argument I was referring to anecdotally - which, I believe, brings us to the present. With that, I didn't dispute that Biologists discuss the prospect of immortality and I'm not sure what relevance their imagined discussions have anyway, as what I actually said was that Biological Immortality refers to something other than Physical Immortality - because you did appear to have confused those two, separate, issues as the same thing, by using a definition in support of what you were saying, that did not actually support what you were saying? Personally, I find it a little hard to see how that fact, or what followed after that fact, is much at all to do with, "contextualisation", or, "pedantry", or "effing crazy", or, "deconstruction", or any other inventive fancies?... As I see someone has since pointed out, it seems much more to do with the simple matter of the actual meaning and appropriate application of terms.

@david 1 not exactly but I like any music to be honest as long as it has that 'something'! :D

djamelameziane › same here, bro, same here.

This is getting tedious now. David 1's definition of Immortal - "That which lives and can not die". [url=http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/27/us-ageing-worms-immortality-idUSTRE81Q20Y20120227]Contemporary use of the word Immortal by reporters and scientists[/url] Dictionary definition of pedantic: "giving too much attention to formal rules or small details". Nobody else is interested in this nonsense. The OP wants to know about the life expectancy of Engineers. [i]Arguing[/i] about the dictionary definition of the word immortal is not what this site is about. It's very very dull, apart from anything else.

.... The engineers live... and they die... the rest is none of our business... staff: Weyland Corp. Deep Space Status Systems Division, Mars

@zzplural. Thanx for that link. I don't think this discussion is boring btw. Infact, it's quite interesting. and it's a discussion or debate so people are going to disagree as well has agree. After all that is what this site is for. I think. The "flatworm" regenarating flesh, muscles and other tissues which leads to it living alot longer is very interesting! Maybe that is what the Engineers do? That may explain why the "Suit" looks like it's a part of their bodies? Maybe it is a part of their bodies?

ZZplural: that is not "David 1's definition of Immortal - "That which lives and can not die"." that is the actual meaning used since there is recorded History. And guess what, IT STILL IS. just because "reporters and scientists" invent their own "neologisms" [which, btw, is becoming not only a plague but a nonsense in evey way; and never mind the laguage gap that it creates] it doesn't replace the Universaly aknowledged meanings of those definitions IN USE. easy, yes?

Zzplural: maybe they thought you meant " pedestrian". David1, allinamberclad: so something with the potential to live forever is not technically immortal? My dictionary says of immortal biology: "capable of indefinite growth or division". That's it. necronom4: you're a good egg. I think the suit is united with their body somehow. Here's a question: do they put it on, or does ...slide....on to them?

@Major Noob. You must be Yolking. Sorry, bad Joke... Noob, i'm not suggesting it's a "Suit", that's why i put the quotations on it. I personally think it's a part of their bodies, like i said, with the worm analogy thingy. Their old Skin may be replaced with the Reptile like Skin, that Bob displays? On the catwalk...on the catwalk yeah...Bob shakes his little tush on the Catwalk.

Just keep it civil you guys. I don't want to have to use my ninja robot monkeys on you all ;-) they have another secret mission to complete first :-D *coughtakingoutLindelofcough*

Poor DL set upon by ninja monkeys. He was probably so happy, at one time..

Well, Bob survived 2,000 years without dieing but when he got trilobited he died. This brings me into conclucion that in "good" conditions they live until some crazy Feebs comes and cuts their jugular vein open = death. So technology might give them an upperhand in this. But one thing their technology doesn't seem to stop is aging and when we do age our body tends to get slower and slower untill everything stops = death. We have seen that that the sacrificial engineer looked young adult and the elder looked like an old grandpa. The lifecycle is similiar, they are born as an infant, grow as toddlers and teen and one day they wake up old. But one huge thing we have to take in notice is how many our years/days/months are their year. It might be slower or faster Since they made us one fist fact is that they live older that 80 years (average human life) so they live nice and young 100 years untill they start aging. (more soon)

Ripley and joneesy didn't age much in 57 years. Maybe 2 years at most ? Let's say the ratio is 1:25 for us then it could be 1:150 for the engineers ? Any thoughts ?