Thanks in large part to the Civil War, the life expectancy in the US in the middle 1800's was roughly 40yrs old. In 2014, thanks in large part to Blade Runner, Bacon and Mario Kart 8 it's right around 80 yrs old. With advances in medicine but the added danger of living in space what's the average life span for a spaceman/spacewoman in the year 2944?asked by Ajax Wilhelm

So we've been saying 150 years...

150-ish, yeah. I mean, that was-... in the early days of the "Ask a Dev" that was a raging discussion, about age and stuff. And a lot of people think that with medical advances as they are now that the life expectancy would be much, much larger than that. But I remember early on in conversations with Chris, there was this sort of... we wanted the-... there was this idea that the universe should-, that people should not be living beyond, like 200 years - just because you start to get into immortality, and you know, wanting to have these various phases of human development, that were sort of isolated to themselves. Like the fact that there aren't any humans that were alive during the Messer Era speaks a very different thing about that era, because it's all through, you know, historical fact rather than personal recollection.

Yeah, so we're kind of thinking that human bodies have a shelf life, as much as we can extend it. But probably was tech HAS done is improved the quality of those 150 years medically speaking. Like, the senility and other kind of problems that come with old age-DH: - genetic disorders -WW: ... and that kind of stuff has probably been eliminated, so you get fuller, healthier, full 150 years, more bang for your buck kinda thing, would be one way to think about it.