Could "The Omega Glory" be our future?

[Stevicus]

Some think of this as one of the worst episodes of Star Trek, but it presented an interesting scenario just the same.

The basic story is that this planet had experienced some major biological war, where most of the population had been wiped out from plagues and diseases caused by biological weapons. Those who survived developed a super-immunity, which was passed on to their offspring, and consequently lived very long lives, some over a thousand years old.

I'd like to think that the "Yangs" and the "Comms" would eventually patch up their differences and stop fighting, but other than that, is such a result scientifically possible? Could this be our future?

 

[sun rise]

Evolution has not stopped with the current species on Earth, including us. natural selection and all the rest continues to operate. To quote:

Diseases are environmental stressors that can easily break through the technological and physiological defences of the human genome. Indeed, there is growing evidence that epidemics are exerting selective pressure on our species. New methods for studying genetic variability—which can be used to study long-lived species with long generation times—have demonstrated directional natural selection on human genes by looking for signatures of selection in the genes of present populations (Quintana-Murci et al, 2007). These include the glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) gene, which confers resistance to malaria (Tishkoff et al, 2001), and the chemokine receptor 5 (CCR5) among Europeans, which confers resistance to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The latter is likely to have evolved within the past 2,000 years, in response to an infectious agent that uses the CCR5 receptor to infect host cells (Stephens et al, 1998). Numerous other studies have also provided evidence for recent natural selection on the human genome through comparisons of large sections of DNA (Sabeti et al, 2007; Frazer et al, 2007; Hawks et al, 2007).

 

[Twilight Hue]

Some think of this as one of the worst episodes of Star Trek, but it presented an interesting scenario just the same.

The basic story is that this planet had experienced some major biological war, where most of the population had been wiped out from plagues and diseases caused by biological weapons. Those who survived developed a super-immunity, which was passed on to their offspring, and consequently lived very long lives, some over a thousand years old.

I'd like to think that the "Yangs" and the "Comms" would eventually patch up their differences and stop fighting, but other than that, is such a result scientifically possible? Could this be our future?

Its why herd immunity is a good thing. Even so, there comes a point where we just have to say that nature does not revolve around us. It's we who revolves around nature.

 

[Revoltingest]

Some think of this as one of the worst episodes of Star Trek, but it presented an interesting scenario just the same.

The basic story is that this planet had experienced some major biological war, where most of the population had been wiped out from plagues and diseases caused by biological weapons. Those who survived developed a super-immunity, which was passed on to their offspring, and consequently lived very long lives, some over a thousand years old.

I'd like to think that the "Yangs" and the "Comms" would eventually patch up their differences and stop fighting, but other than that, is such a result scientifically possible? Could this be our future?

In a reality where immunity unrealistically leads to ridiculously long lives,
why not imagine the equally ridiculously idea of peace for all mankind.
And while we're at it, all people are good looking in their skin tight uniforms.