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October 25

What age could a human live to in a regular house without aid or much tech? What about a man?

That they don't need a wheelchair, could walk a normal walking distance to buy their groceries with a cane at most, can use a regular bathtub not one with a door or seat in it, don't need that stair elevator thing, and aren't too forgetful or frail to live alone. Maybe it's not safe to do anything that needs quick reactions anymore (driving?) but they can still see enough to read street signs or books with glasses and don't have much hearing loss. What's the approximate oldest age anyone's ever done that? What about a man, since the oldest man was only 116? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sagittarian Milky Way (talk • contribs)

There's no reasonable way to answer this question definitively. Humans are too highly variable, for some people Senescence can set in during their 60s, and others can be reasonable independent into their second century. There are plenty of documented cases of supercentenarians living independently. --Jayron32 13:16, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

Many decades of variation sure but I was only wondering what the longest anyone could ever hope for without doctors discovering how to slow down aging was. I think I might've read of supercentenarians that were very healthy, so at least 110 for a woman? Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 15:57, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

I have an ancestor who lived to be over 100, dying well before the American Civil War began, and it's fair to say doctoring wasn't much good in those days. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 16:00, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

I don't know if they drove, but both my father's maternal aunt, and his sister-in-law's mother (unrelated) lived alone, unfrail, and without special contrivances into their early 100's. μηδείς (talk) 19:25, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

Private facebook groups - searches

Can an admin or other power user see the history of searches on his or her group. Can they also identify the user making the searches? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.195.27.47 (talk) 23:01, 25 October 2015 (UTC)

No. But facebook could tell. An advertiser that targeted that group with an AD could tell who loaded the ad. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 07:09, 26 October 2015 (UTC)