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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Science@lemmy.mlEnglish · 8 days ago

‘Jonathan’ Is the Oldest Land Animal on Earth. He Could Hold the Secrets to Defying Death

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‘Jonathan’ Is the Oldest Land Animal on Earth. He Could Hold the Secrets to Defying Death

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Science@lemmy.mlEnglish · 8 days ago
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Jonathan, a 194-year-old Aldabra giant tortoise, was born before the Civil War. Scientists have now sequenced his genome to reveal what’s behind his extreme longevity, so we can live longer too.
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  • ghost_laptop@lemmy.ml
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    i hope we get to see dna shit like this and that we get to expand our life to reach like 200 or 300 years. it’d definitely be more interesting to live if you could have more years to spare.

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      Capitalism doesn’t work like that.
      Live to 200 and you’ll work until you’re 185.

      • TruePe4rl@lemmy.ml
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        7 days ago

        Unless law allows for more.

      • trilobite@lemmy.ml
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        I’m writng this one down … it made me chuckle …

      • ghost_laptop@lemmy.ml
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        7 days ago

        read my other comment.

    • MeThisGuy@feddit.nl
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      in this world hellscape?

      • ghost_laptop@lemmy.ml
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        i have revolutionary optimism that the western imperial rule will end in my lifetime and a new world will born.

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          well ic you lived until 300 I would understand. but not if you lived to a 100.

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      It wouldn’t be very useful without it also stopping not only cognitive decline, but also all our accumulated mental baggage.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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      indeed

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    The secret? Moving really really really slow. Death is like a t-rex.

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      I feel like T-Rex were quite fast. I have no reason to think that but I know they could run my shit down

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        (Is what I think they were alluding to)

        • deft@lemmy.wtf
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          Ohhh that makes more sense

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        That’s why you move slow. They just run past ya repeatedly until they give up.

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