As a reminder, this is an area of medical research where you don't have to stand to one side and hope. Providing meaningful support to specific early stage rese

As a reminder, this is an area of medical research where you don't have to stand to one side and hope. Providing meaningful support to specific early stage research programs in rejuvenation research is well within the capabilities of most people making average developer salaries. Look at the few hundred people who joined the Methuselah Foundation's 300 [1] over the past decade, and collectively their individual contributions of $1000/yr helped to launch early SENS research and provided seed investment in Organovo, now a successful tissue engineering concern and whose founders are a steadfast part of the New Organ initiative [2]. Or look at the crowd centered around Longecity [3] who have raised $10,000 here and $20,000 there for discrete projects in aging research, ranging from exploratory laser ablation of lipofuscin (not a success, but a worthy attempt at a technology demonstration) to a SENS project to demonstrate allotopic expression in two mitochondrial genes (did quite well, thank you). Early stage research is cheap, falling over yourself cheap. Meaningful cutting edge projects can run for a few tens of thousands of dollars over six months - you just have to know who to fund. Fortunately there are good, responsible, aggressive research organizations out there like the SENS Research Foundation [3] that are coin slots for rejuvenation research and advocacy: you can be sure that money goes to good uses, funding areas of research that need unsticking and accelerating, picking those programs that have the best expectation values. You can put in a few thousand and be in good company with hundreds of other people, many from the tech industry, who have decided that it is well worth giving a small fraction of what you make each year to help ensure that when we are old there will be treatments to prevent the medical conditions that presently harm our parents and grandparents. What use is it making a good wage, enough to greatly influence the medical technology of your future, while sitting on the sidelines and doing nothing but hoping? Who else is going to make a difference if not you? You have the choice of living the same life as before, and suffering and dying in great pain at the end, or making a better future for everyone. It really seems like a no-brainer to me. There are few places where so little money can produce so great a beneficial outcome at this time. [1]: http://mfoundation.org/300 http://mfoundation.org/300 [2]: http://neworgan.org http://neworgan.org [3]: http://longecity.org http://longecity.org [4]: http://sens.org http://sens.org