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danny_galaga:

--- Quote from: Dartful Dodger on October 31, 2007, 12:11:16 pm ---Can you imagine being 400 years old and have a 20-60 year old kill you, just so a couple of other pre70 years old can give him a Nobel Peace Prize.

To us the clam’s life looks as meaningful as a tree’s life.  To him our life looks as meaningful as an ant’s.


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youve never eaten oysters, or mussels? did you feel bad? animals like clams have a very rudimentary nervous system- there isnt even a 'brain' at the end of it...

jbox:

--- Quote from: boykster on October 31, 2007, 06:04:29 pm ---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.

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Except cancer just has to be good at reproducing, while shmokes wants his cells to keep doing their original job. It's also possible we may instead prove that faster growing lifeforms need exponentially more self-repair capabilities in their DNA then slower ones. In which case I think it far more likely you'll get the Gattica/Blade Runner issues well before you get immortality because those manipulations will turn out to be much easier to stabilise.

Bones:

--- Quote from: shmokes on October 31, 2007, 05:12:10 pm ---I'm not asking for immortality, but

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I am. I got a lot of stuff I want to do.

Singapura:

--- Quote ---Clams have no propulsion system, which means it sat there in that same spot for over 400 years.

It probably started hoping someone would come along and kill it about 200 years ago.

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