- Telomere repair which isn't cancerous. - Telomeres are a large factor as why we age, we also know that cancerous cells produce a hormone that regenerates their telomeres indefinitely.
That's not really how it works. Firstly: not all tumour cells overproduce telomerase. Furthermore: telomerase is not necessarily a sign of cancer; it has a genuine function in cells. Thirdly: it's not really a hormone, but that may be nitpicking.
Yeah telomerase is an enzyme, not a hormone. I would like more research into this because living forever would be awesome.
Not to rain on your parade, but even with this, you would not live forever. Biological immortality, while nice, is not the same as living forever. Look at trees, for example. If left alone, they could see the end of the earth they're standing on. However, while they do not really age, they still get infected with all sorts of parasites and diseases, get eaten by herbivore, starved by poor summers, their reserves drained by harsh winters before they're chopped down to be made into toilet paper.
As your expected age increases, so does the probability of you being in all kinds of accidents (car/plane crasher, gas explosion), getting any kind of deadly disease and just getting the general short end of the proverbial stick.
Yes I know that biological immortality doesn't mean that you will actually live forever. However infections and diseases are all mostly treatable anyway and dying of starvation isn't really likely to happen here in Canada. Now granted car accidents are a very real possibility but you do your best to drive well. Biological immortality is not a reality now but that's why I want more research and I might just do it myself when I graduate.
Google is working on the car crash issue with cars that drive themselves.
It most likely would, although possibly not everything. All signs point to natural death being caused by pretty holistic degradation of the body on a cellular level. Consequently it looks as though it'd be very hard to delay "natural death" with a bandaid, and the term "anti-aging" also implies this.
I do have a degree in biology, remember
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I want Google to jump into more scientific research. They have the money, ambition, and guts to do stuuuupid stuff. I'm pretty sure if they wanted to, they could mete out immortality.
I'm a chemist, btw. I should have a better answer for this question.
To be fair, anti-aging medicine would slow the onset of many consequences of aging, not just death.
You hope. We dont know what other unforeseen problems it may cause.
We already do, look at Japan or Sparta's demographic trends and property rights. Or as I like to call it "The Protoss Problem."
Just because something works a certain way in Japan, doesnt mean it would work the same in America, or Canada or the UK or Africa for that matter.
It's called a demographics collapse and settlement abandonment.
I understand what it is, I am trying to explain just because one part of the world decides to do something because of what ever reason, doesnt mean the rest of the world will have the same thoughts on the situation and handle it the same way. Anyone that has traveled has seen this.
Alternative fuel sources is the correct answer here. Breaking to dependence on oil and oil based fuel systems would be the way to go.
I think this is where our two ideas can come together. The moon is suspected to have large amounts o Helium 3 a "light, non-radioactive isotope of helium with two protons and one neutron. It is rare on Earth, and it is sought for use in nuclear fusion research." I know almost nothing about it but it looks like this could result in safer fusion reactors. And I'm thinking that the money to be made from this would be an incentive to TPTB to fund this.
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Alternative fuel sources is the correct answer here. Breaking to dependence on oil and oil based fuel systems would be the way to go.
I think this is where our two ideas can come together. The moon is suspected to have large amounts o Helium 3 a "light, non-radioactive isotope of helium with two protons and one neutron. It is rare on Earth, and it is sought for use in nuclear fusion research." I know almost nothing about it but it looks like this could result in safer fusion reactors. And I'm thinking that the money to be made from this would be an incentive to TPTB to fund this.
Fusion is always safe. It's fission you're thinking about, which has the issue that it can go, for a lack of better word, nuclear.
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Scientific education and communication. You rectify people's and their representatives' ignorance and lack of foresight, you have unlimited moneys to play around with on whatever projects.
You dump a ton of money into any one project, there may not necessarily be results due to lack of leadership, or even resistance, from powers that be, among other factors relating to the lay and their attitudes.
I know almost nothing about it but it looks like this could result in safer fusion reactors. And I'm thinking that the money to be made from this would be an incentive to TPTB to fund this.
Fusion is safe, because if the magnetic bottle fails (actually, if anything fails), the reaction stops.
What fusion isn't, is cheap.
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Scientific education and communication. You rectify people's and their representatives' ignorance and lack of foresight, you have unlimited moneys to play around with on whatever projects.
You dump a ton of money into any one project, there may not necessarily be results due to lack of leadership, or even resistance, from powers that be, among other factors relating to the lay and their attitudes.
You will never eliminate ignorance. There are too many people who just dont care about certain issues to educate themselves about them.
So on the Fusion issue this Helium 3 will research or do we have working reactors now and it will help make better ones? Either this seems like a good way to go.
Another one I heard about turbine generators off the coast powered by ocean water underneath them. This has great potential.
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Another one I heard about turbine generators off the coast powered by ocean water underneath them. This has great potential.
You might want to check out those amazing experimental wave energy powerplants off the coast of Scotland, such as the Pelamis.
I personally would love to see more research going into dye sensitized solar cells, as well as into energy storage. Keeping the grid stable with the current growth of renewables definitely will be a challenge.
Bring about peace by figuring out just what the christ is wrong with people.
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― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
Bring about peace by figuring out just what the christ is wrong with people.
That's a good one. I've thought a few times that nothing really changes because of "human nature." That will continue until people stop being people. So we need to check the wiring as it were.
Bring about peace by figuring out just what the christ is wrong with people.
That's a good one.:thumbsup: I've thought a few times that nothing really changes because of "human nature." That will continue until people stop being people. So we need to check the wiring as it were.
The terrible secret is that there is no human nature. We are all the sum of our experiences, and while we should have mercy for those of us who have been harmed by bad experience, calling it human nature removes responsibility from one's actions.
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“A man's at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with. He can know his heart, but he dont want to. Rightly so. Best not to look in there. It aint the heart of a creature that is bound in the way that God has set for it. You can find meanness in the least of creatures, but when God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make the machine. And evil that can run itself a thousand years, no need to tend it.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
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Google is working on the car crash issue with cars that drive themselves.
You hope. We dont know what other unforeseen problems it may cause.
I do have a degree in biology, remember
We already do, look at Japan or Sparta's demographic trends and property rights. Or as I like to call it "The Protoss Problem."
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Just because something works a certain way in Japan, doesnt mean it would work the same in America, or Canada or the UK or Africa for that matter.
It's called a demographics collapse and settlement abandonment.
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I'm a chemist, btw. I should have a better answer for this question.
I understand what it is, I am trying to explain just because one part of the world decides to do something because of what ever reason, doesnt mean the rest of the world will have the same thoughts on the situation and handle it the same way. Anyone that has traveled has seen this.
I think this is where our two ideas can come together. The moon is suspected to have large amounts o Helium 3 a "light, non-radioactive isotope of helium with two protons and one neutron. It is rare on Earth, and it is sought for use in nuclear fusion research." I know almost nothing about it but it looks like this could result in safer fusion reactors. And I'm thinking that the money to be made from this would be an incentive to TPTB to fund this.
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Fusion is always safe. It's fission you're thinking about, which has the issue that it can go, for a lack of better word, nuclear.
You dump a ton of money into any one project, there may not necessarily be results due to lack of leadership, or even resistance, from powers that be, among other factors relating to the lay and their attitudes.
Fusion is safe, because if the magnetic bottle fails (actually, if anything fails), the reaction stops.
What fusion isn't, is cheap.
"Sometimes, the situation is outracing a threat, sometimes it's ignoring it, and sometimes it involves sideboarding in 4x Hope//Pray." --Doug Linn
You will never eliminate ignorance. There are too many people who just dont care about certain issues to educate themselves about them.
Another one I heard about turbine generators off the coast powered by ocean water underneath them. This has great potential.
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You might want to check out those amazing experimental wave energy powerplants off the coast of Scotland, such as the Pelamis.
I personally would love to see more research going into dye sensitized solar cells, as well as into energy storage. Keeping the grid stable with the current growth of renewables definitely will be a challenge.
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Bring about peace by figuring out just what the christ is wrong with people.
― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
That's a good one. I've thought a few times that nothing really changes because of "human nature." That will continue until people stop being people. So we need to check the wiring as it were.
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The terrible secret is that there is no human nature. We are all the sum of our experiences, and while we should have mercy for those of us who have been harmed by bad experience, calling it human nature removes responsibility from one's actions.
― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West