spacesailor Posted June 5 Share Posted June 5 I'm four score & two. Just don't think about that ' age ' thing . But . I still can't jump puddles. LoL spacesailor 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmccarthy Posted June 5 Share Posted June 5 It is a worry being in your seventies. I have had friends who wanted to become UFOs (United flying octogenarians) but didn’t make it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old man emu Posted June 5 Share Posted June 5 The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. Psalm 90:10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marty_d Posted June 5 Share Posted June 5 You may get more accurate figures from current actuarial tables than a 1800 year old piece of fiction, OME. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacesailor Posted June 5 Share Posted June 5 I have been told . The longevity record that I hopped to exceed, is now . 130 plus years. , by a north American native . I have no other information of this momentous achievement. spacesailor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmccarthy Posted June 5 Share Posted June 5 Any of us might be the first to set the new record. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red750 Posted June 5 Share Posted June 5 Oldest person ever | Guinness World Records Jeanne Louise Calment (France) lived 122 years and 164 days, the greatest fully authenticated age to which any human has ever lived. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry_Atrick Posted June 5 Share Posted June 5 The thumbs up is a celebration of someone who reached that age.. Would have been nice to go longer, though, assuming a reasonable quality of life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post old man emu Posted June 5 Popular Post Share Posted June 5 I wonder if such longevity is a gift or a curse. My Mum is 98 and still mentally acute. However, she is outliving the people she has known for years. I see her in her room in the aged care facility, still able to sit and read the paper, or keep up her interest in horse racing by watching it on the TV, as well as other programmes she enjoys. But I don't see the active lady of a couple of decades ago. She was always on the go. Now she can barely move around her room, and has to be wheelchaired from there to the dining room. She doesn't even like it when she has to be taken out of the facility for health care like seeing the podiatrist. One good thing that the recent inquiry into aged care resulted in was the requirement for aged care providers to allocate more time for interaction with residents. Luckily her facility has a great group of staff who actually have a passion for caring for the residents. 3 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rgmwa Posted June 8 Share Posted June 8 William (Bill) Anders, now aged 90, the Apollo 8 astronaut who took the famous ‘Earthrise’ photo in 1968, was killed when his T-34 crashed into the sea yesterday. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted June 9 Share Posted June 9 I wouldn't mind going that way either. Nev 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red750 Posted June 9 Share Posted June 9 Apparently performing a loop but didn't pull out of it. May have been a heart attack. Aerobatics at 90 is risking it a bit. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted June 9 Share Posted June 9 You can pull a lot of "G" in a loop. Nev 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacesailor Posted June 9 Share Posted June 9 Don't they have Australia's strict ' driving ' laws ' . Driving test every year after 85 . Stringent medical's for pilots . spacesailor 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted June 9 Share Posted June 9 It varies from State to State. Nev 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted June 9 Share Posted June 9 A person with his background would be very familiar with keeping in good health. You don't fly for fun IF you are feeling off in any way when you're highly experienced. While I said you CAN pull a lot of "G" in a loop you don't HAVE to. Nev 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomadpete Posted June 10 Share Posted June 10 On 09/06/2024 at 4:56 PM, facthunter said: It varies from State to State. Nev Aaah, of course. How United they are! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted June 10 Share Posted June 10 A bit of competitions makes it better for us all.. In the USA the civil war hasn't ended. Nev 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Tuncks Posted June 12 Share Posted June 12 I'd like to know the real statistics on suicide: Aerobatics at 90? May well have been an intentional accident. But suicide of a young person? a different thing entirely... Here's how to get lots of people at your funeral... you die first! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted June 13 Share Posted June 13 There's Records of that crash He was too low and hit the water at a fair angle at speed. The "G" force may have affected him but the loop was entered too low. He had the option of rolling out of it at one stage, but once you are past that point you will go in IF you don't have enough height. Nev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Litespeed Posted June 13 Share Posted June 13 (edited) Either way.. He died doing what he loved and in a way that reminds us of his achievements that will forever affect life on Earth. His Earth rise photo changed the way we see the fragile planet that sustains us. It gave a huge boost to the environment movement and science that is fundamental to our existence. That one photo is far more important than a footprint on the moon. I hope they bury his plane with him, it's what I'd want as my coffin. Edited June 13 by Litespeed 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry_Atrick Posted June 13 Share Posted June 13 If I know the end is near, I'd like to go the same way.. but without anyone watching as I don't want to cause others trauma Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old man emu Posted June 13 Share Posted June 13 4 hours ago, Jerry_Atrick said: I don't want to cause others trauma Bad luck, cause the death of those we know always causes trauma. Don't you get a pang of sadness when another name is added to this list? You might not know the well-known personality personally, but they are part of your life. Do you really feel the same pang of sadness when you hear on the news that people in some far-off land have died in some catastrophe? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacesailor Posted June 13 Share Posted June 13 I do !. Very sad for a long time, after John Wayne's passing . spacesailor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted June 14 Share Posted June 14 I believe a lot of Indians were relieved though... Nev 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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