In the last moments of his life, Jobs helplessly "complained" in a famous speech at Stanford: death is the common end of everyone, and no one can escape. However, 10 years after Jobs "went to heaven", human scientists made a subversive discovery.
Foreign media reports, recently scientists at the University of Pennsylvania in the United States in the well-known journal PLOS Biology pointed out that they will be frozen for 23 years of sperm stem cells (SCC) transplanted into male mice without fertility, the result is once again produced vigorous sperm. And the male rat that provided the experimental cells, after 20 years of death, actually became a father again, surprised, not surprised?
For this result, the project leader Dr. Eoin Whelan could not hide his excitement: rats usually only survive for 36 months (equivalent to the elderly human), but after more than 20 years, through cell transplantation technology, it can once again be a happy father, no doubt adding infinite imagination to the future of human desire for "immortality".
However, it is still too early to expect this miraculous achievement to land. In fact, the "cryonics" that is regarded as a norm by Silicon Valley venture capitalist Peter Thiel is similar to the former, but because it has so far thawed fruitlessly, it has been angrily denounced by the public as a commercial funeral cloaked in technology. And this also means that on the journey to the "Garden of Life Eden", Dr. Eoin Whelan is destined to be difficult to say.
In fact, behind Dr. Eoin Whelan's subversive discovery, the big guys who hold the top wealth of mankind have long been unable to hold back their aversion to death.
In 2016, billionaire Peter Till and Amazon founder Bezos invested $116 million in startup Unity Biotechnology, an ambitious biological company that aims to delay aging-related diseases. In addition to this, Peter Till, who saw death as an option, was also an enthusiast of medieval "blood exchange therapy", for which the big guy threw out $40,000 a quarter.
In 2018, four Chinese billionaires flew to the outskirts of Kiev, Ukraine, to receive 600,000 injections of embryonic gan cells as VIP customers. It is said that if you spend 4 million, you can be 30 years younger. However, it was soon poured cold water by domestic experts, "no different from ordinary chicken blood."
In September 2021, Meyer, the mother of Musk, the world's richest man and "tech maniac", told the media that she hoped she would live to at least 98 years old. In order to achieve this "ambitious" goal, Meyer has set his sights on a life substance similar to "Zhiyin Jinchun", which is reported to cost millions of dollars per year. Not long ago, Meyer and her son Musk attended the MET GALA charity party, and at the age of 74, she was full of energy and her physical condition was almost no less than that of the 40-year-old.
In fact, long before Meyer discovered the "New World", Li Ka-shing, a wealthy businessman in the Hong Kong circle, had already made a quick start. According to Hong Kong media reports, after witnessing the tragic encounter of Macau gambling king Ho Hung-sun in 2017, 89-year-old Li Ka-shing was exposed to similar "Zhiyin Jin Chun" technology through private channels and felt "like returning to the afterlife".
The technology that Meyer and Li Ka-shing bet on is even more "Qin Shubao's yellow horse" - it is not small: since 2013, the top laboratories of humanity represented by Harvard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Mayo Medical School have successively discovered that this technology can return the twilight experimental team to a young state and extend the life duration by an additional 1/3.
Coincidentally, following the footsteps of Li Ka-shing's life, more domestic rich people began to join the lineup of early adopters of such substances. According to media reports, since 2019, no less than 150,000+ high-net-worth families have poured into the Beijing-East platform, and even staged several times to rush to buy the wave. The old and shrewd Li Chaoren invested $25 million the year before, which showed his "foresight".
For scientists at the University of Pennsylvania, however, these are undoubtedly undesirable. In an interview with the media, Dr. Eoin Whelan has already said the truth, "Let the dead rats be fathers, not for curiosity, but hope that these results can help boys who receive cancer treatment before puberty to restore their damaged fertility."
This means that scientists at the University of Pennsylvania are referring to the continuity of human descendants, not the "immortality" of the human body. However, this seems to coincide with a certain philosophy of The world's richest man, Musk.
Since 2022, Musk, who has repeatedly stirred up public opinion, has repeatedly shouted in public places that "human beings should not live long" and "are not interested in eternal life". At the same time, he is very interested in having children, and it is reported that Musk currently has 7 children, and the youngest daughter is still obtained by artificial means.
Unlike Musk, human beings in the present world are still more willing to rely on anti-aging technology and other means to achieve their "immortal dream". Perhaps, as Jobs said: No one wants to die, and even if they go to heaven, they prefer to go in alive.