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30 P: One hundred and twenty years would be an average; some much longer, some much shorter. Disease is still prevalent although not near to the extent as here on Earth. The process ofselective 1 oo 1 : taal 1 1 1 aot a breeding has insured that the race has become close to its physi- cal limits, as far as health or evolution is concerned. Well, when the body ages, arethere changesthat takeplacein the outward physicalappearance? Yes. The skin wrinkles and sags. The bones lose calcium. There is aform ofarthritis although not quite as severe as here because the gravity of the planet is somewhat one-sixth of this Earth gravity. So you can see the weight of the body on itself would be not near as much. But there is a definite aging. You spoke of some diseases thathave not been conquered. Are there certain types that wereworse than others? Do you speak in the past tense or the present tense? Well, either way. Were there some that were severe that you have 19 conquered? There was a disease which was picked up on a planet that was being explored and colonized, which we had no biological defenses to. And this caused consternation, to say the least. A good one-third of the population-one-fourth would be more accurate-one-fourth ofthe population died in a horrible death rr 1 en ree) mm: because of simple carelessness and inattention to details. This should be a lesson. The cause was isolated. It was a germ which had grown on another planet under a sun which had a different light spectrum or light output. This germ was undetected, very virulent and very potent to the physical systems of the visitors. They would have no immune system againstsomething like that. Do they takeprecautionsnow againstthepossibility ofsomething like that happen- ° ing again? Yes, of course! Of course! You said that therewere sicknesses thathave not been conquered? That's right. These, for the most part are due to carelessness and inattention to diet and proper health procedures. Ifa person is attentive to their nutritional needs and exercises-as we would say here, if they're health conscious-they will have a healthy life. But undernormalcircumstancesand payingattentionto these things, they alllive to be about 120 years old? P: That's an average age, yes. D: Do you have hospital and use medicine? _ The Keepers of the Garden