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Scientists Find Oldest Living Animal, Then Kill It
Dartful Dodger:
A tree lives on water nutrients in the soil and sunlight. Try mixing the amount of salt and sugar you voluntarily ingest to water and feed that to the tree. You'll quickly see the trees cell structure "voluntarily killing itself" too.
--- Quote from: shmokes on October 31, 2007, 05:07:58 pm ---Did Al Gore kill this clam?
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Not yet, but the primaries are still young, he has plenty of time to take credit for it, then claim he was misquoted.
boykster:
--- Quote from: shmokes on October 31, 2007, 05:12:10 pm ---It's pretty interesting. I wish they could figure out and cure (preferably within the next couple years) aging. There's no good reason for it. It's not like we have all our cells when we're eighteen years old and then we start wearing out like any other product. Our cells simply, and arbitrarily, decide to reproduce at a slower rate. There's no reason why they must behave this way. They just do. Trees don't behave this way. Tree cells just keep reproducing indefinitely. A tree can live to 1000 years old, so long as it isn't killed by wind or disease or lack of nutrients. I'm not asking for immortality, but I'd just like my body to stop voluntarily killing itself. :hissy:
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Unfortunately, nearly every effort to circumvent the Hayflack limit imposed by degraded telomeric regions on our DNA tends towards cancerous growth. Interestingly enough, cancer cells may shed the most light on anti-aging research; if markers can be found to determine when and why cells become cancerous (and essentially immortal since cancer cells don't suffer from programmed cell death in the same way that normal cells do) then there may be some way to short-circuit the aging process.
Don't expect it in 2-3 years though. Even if a therapy was available today in a pre-approved form, it would take years to come to market.
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: shmokes on October 31, 2007, 05:07:58 pm ---Did Al Gore kill this clam?
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Yes, but it's okay, he bought several clam credits to make up for it.
patrickl:
--- Quote from: Dartful Dodger on October 31, 2007, 05:38:46 pm ---Not yet, but the primaries are still young, he has plenty of time to take credit for it, then claim he was misquoted.
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You're just upset that ...
GORE WON!!!
danny_galaga:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on October 30, 2007, 11:53:55 am ---
Clearly global warming is being caused by the reduction of frozen 600 year old clams. Every time they dig one up and kill it, another 5 mile chunk of ice breaks off and floats away.
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;D
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