(June 13, 2012 at 11:59 am)Rhythm Wrote: You should take a look at telomere shortening/lengthening. There was a point at which it seemed like this might have some potential (and it still does) but there are some interesting trade-offs that they discovered. Reminds me of a greek myth to which I am unable to recall the exact details. A person asks for eternal life, but forgetful as we are, doesn't ask for eternal health or youth.
From what I have read on it, youth is precisely what you get with creatures like lobsters who live long lives this way. They get bigger, but not older, technically speaking. Their cells do not age. Now, health and trauma are different. This raises a shitload of questions like, would you want to be trapped under the WTC towers right now, immortal, buried near the bottom where they assumed no one was left living? Scenarios like that make the idea utterly intolerable to me. I'm all set.
