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I agree, the article's assumptions are lined up to stretch to an attention grabbing headline, but... "99.999999% certainty that no human will ever live to the

I agree, the article's assumptions are lined up to stretch to an attention grabbing headline, but... "99.999999% certainty that no human will ever live to the age of 130" is not the same as "99.999999% chance of an individual reaching 130". Sorry, just my statistics pedantry for the day.

isp 11y ago
It's definitely not the same: I think you're missing a "not" in "99.999999% chance of an individual reaching 130". :-)