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Anonymous Sat 22 Feb 17:30:40 2020 No.11407791 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>11407810 >>11408682 >>11408690 >>11408734 >>11408988 >>11409858 >>11409908 >>11409964

So.... why do we age?

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Anonymous Sat 22 Feb 2020 17:32:03 No.11407799 Report

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what i want to know is in the twin paradox, does the biology of the twin in the spaceship is somehow slowed down? do his little proteins in the cells slow down compared to the twin on earth?

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Anonymous Sat 22 Feb 2020 17:35:02 No.11407810 Report

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>>11407791
Makes it harder to get cancer. We have more than enough time to breed despite ageing so evolution doesn't give a shit

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 22 Feb 2020 17:36:17 No.11407815 Report

Quoted By: >>11407818 >>11407849

there is a lobster that can technically live forever but he always dies from the result of some disease

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Anonymous Sat 22 Feb 2020 17:36:57 No.11407818 Report

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>>11407815
maybe it gets depressed and dies.

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Anonymous Sat 22 Feb 2020 17:37:12 No.11407819 Report

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>>11407799
Yes.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 22 Feb 2020 17:47:25 No.11407849 Report

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>>11407815
it just doesn’t “age” in the sense that the probability of death in a given year doesn’t increase with the age of the lobster like it does with most animals like humans.

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Anonymous Sat 22 Feb 2020 22:34:13 No.11408682 Report

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>>11407791
DNA replication error

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 22 Feb 2020 22:36:38 No.11408690 Report

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>>11407791
Epigenetic DNA-folding error

>>11408682
The DNA itself generally remains the same.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 22 Feb 2020 22:39:22 No.11408701 Report

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>>11408682
>>11408690
>error

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Anonymous Sat 22 Feb 2020 22:49:01 No.11408734 Report

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>>11407791
Entropy is inescapable, the universe is ordered by disorder.

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Anonymous Sun 23 Feb 2020 00:18:02 No.11408988 Report

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>>11407791
>So.... why do we age?
You literally run out of wind up power in your telomeres.

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Anonymous Sun 23 Feb 2020 07:36:02 No.11409811 Report

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buopnp

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Anonymous Sun 23 Feb 2020 08:15:55 No.11409858 Report

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>>11407791
Because your telomeres shorten and your cells start producing errors after mitosis.
That's also why old people look so fucked up.

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Anonymous Sun 23 Feb 2020 08:42:38 No.11409879 Report

Quoted By: >>11409911 >>11409912

We need to harness the power of cancer and make us eternal. Make us whole.

Impact NPC

Impact NPC Sun 23 Feb 2020 09:05:44 No.11409908 Report

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>>11407791
So that comparison has merit and closure.

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Anonymous Sun 23 Feb 2020 09:07:42 No.11409911 Report

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>>11409879
Do you want necromorphs? Because that's how you get necromorphs.

Impact NPC

Impact NPC Sun 23 Feb 2020 09:07:43 No.11409912 Report

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>>11409879
We already are from some linear perspectivea whole, it is just that this current moment of subscription to the idea is of a discrete reference unit.

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Anonymous Sun 23 Feb 2020 09:41:39 No.11409956 Report

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>>11409911
Wtf, are you a necromorphobe or something?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 23 Feb 2020 09:52:33 No.11409964 Report

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>>11407791
to make sure we're not stuck too long on this shithole planet

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