While Adaline eventually rejects the promise of immortality, science is actually moving in the other direction, making enormous strides in understanding aging.
While Adaline eventually rejects the promise of immortality, science is actually moving in the other direction, making enormous strides in understanding aging. Scientists concerned with deep space exploration are keenly interested in this research, because the distance between stars is so great that it may take centuries for a ship to complete its voyage. Thus, the process of building a starship, surviving the voyage to the stars, and settling on distant planets might require several lifetimes. In order to survive the journey we would have to build multigenerational ships, put our astronauts and pioneers in suspended animation, or extend their life spans.
