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  1. Mar 6th, 2009, 02:32 AM #1
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    Middle Age = 50?

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7924615.stm

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  2. Mar 6th, 2009, 02:36 AM #2
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    Re: Middle Age = 50?

    I thought it was 42.... with a few exceptions... (25 for Mendhak)
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    Re: Middle Age = 50?

    Quote Originally Posted by http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article5780499.ece
    On average in Britain, men live to 77.2 and women to 81.5...
    "Middle" implies half and therefore 38.6 for men, and 40.75 for women.
    I don't live here any more.
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    Re: Middle Age = 50?

    If science continues making progresses in the field of medicine and keeps raising life expectancy, I'll never reach middle age.
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    Re: Middle Age = 50?

    Middle age for me is probably 34 (family history and all though, knock on wood, some of my current relatives are doing better). Does that help?
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    Re: Middle Age = 50?

    Quote Originally Posted by mendhak
    If science continues making progresses in the field of medicine and keeps raising life expectancy, I'll never reach middle age.
    I see what you done there, yah.
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    Re: Middle Age = 50?

    However, somebody determined that our perception of time accelerates as we age, so that we perceive time to be moving faster. Our perceived middle age is around 27.
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    Re: Middle Age = 50?

    Quote Originally Posted by mendhak
    If science continues making progresses in the field of medicine and keeps raising life expectancy, I'll never reach middle age.
    True, but you'll still suffer from "old man stink".
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    Re: Middle Age = 50?

    Technically, you cannot calculate your middle age until you have died.
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    Re: Middle Age = 50?

    How did it get to be 2009 so soon? I'll be a hundred before I know it.
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    Re: Middle Age = 50?

    Quote Originally Posted by shaggy hiker
    However, somebody determined that our perception of time accelerates as we age, so that we perceive time to be moving faster. Our perceived middle age is around 27.
    Jeez mendhak... that must mean that you percieve a year as a month.
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  14. Mar 15th, 2009, 01:15 PM #12
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    Re: Middle Age = 50?

    Guess it's when this start making sense:
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    Thomas: I'll remember that when I start "decrepitating" sir.
    ...or maybe when you start posting stuff like this?
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