Joseph Chance

Could Highlander Syndrome help humans become immortal?

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Humans have long been intrigued by the idea of achieving eternal life and wondered whether it could one day become possible thanks to medical and technological advances.

But in the case of some individuals, it seems that it may have even been randomly bestowed on them.

Let's take South Korean man Shin Hyo Myung, for example.

Ever since he appeared on E!

News 24 in 2013, he's been used to being the center of attention.

In 2015, he then appeared in a documentary and was widely described as a 26-year-old with the appearance of a 12-year-old boy.

So can the Highlander's syndrome truly make someone immortal?

What threat does the Year 2038 problem pose to our computers?

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Millennials, how well, if at all, do you remember the Y2K bug hype?

Back in the 1990s, everyone was freaking out about computers crashing when the clock struck midnight on January 1st, 2000.

That was because when computers were first built back in the mid-20th century, they stored years with only two digits instead of four due to memory limitations.

It was feared that when the clock ticked over from 99 to 00 in the year 2000, computers wouldn't recognize the new century and might revert to the year 1900.

In the end, it turned out to be much ado about nothing.

The widely predicted chaos didn't materialize.

But fast forward two decades later and some people say we're looking at another potential computer meltdown on January the 19th, 2038.

and at 3 hours 14 minutes and 7 seconds past midnight to be precise.

Why is 2038 the new date to watch out for?