Message from @rogalik
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yeah
Immortality, best case scenario: 2045.
I honestly think it would be easier to discover how to make people immortal than to find "cure for cancer"
not because it would be so easy to attain immortality, but that it's going to be so fucking hard to cure every kind of cancer
so if people became immortal, they'd still die from cancer eventually
ummm
but that are related things
cancer probability grows with age
and you can't really call yourself "immortal" if you die of cancer at 80
sure, that's why I'm saying curing cancer is harder, because you don't die "from old age", but because something is failing you
if you stop ageing you stop the single most important cause of cancer
old age = many things are failing
these things are inherently intertwined
you'd need a perfect replication system for your body cells to be immortal and that would also mean a perfect cancer (sorry for my kindergarten understanding of biology)
what
cancer is basically your cells going haywire, right
?
if they were able to replicate perfectly, but not perfectly enough for something to go wrong, wouldn't that cause the nastiest imaginable cancer?
no, biological immortality doesn't imply cancer, not at all
there are organisms that are biologically immortal and they don't really die of cancer
ageing is a complex process but i.e one of the direct causes are telemeres(the ending part of DNA) getting shorter and shorter with every replication
telomeres are meant to protect the genetic material, but with age they slowly dissappear
there are organisms that can regenerate them
and you don't need everything to be done perfectly, sometimes there is a "mistake" but as long as you have strong repair mechanisms, your cells aren't worn down, your organism will handle that
fix the error or terminate the damaged cells
it's likely that every minute you have "cancers" appearing somewhere in your body but there are special lymphocytes called NK to get rid of them
so the most important thing is to maintain this self repair mechanism
geezus I am not going to read all of that
geezus was immortal tho
how did he revive from the dead if he is immortal
oh uh
check-mate christians
uh?
you kknow
romania
romania what
R O M A N I A
old age needs to happen
people need to die