When Science Goes Too Far

[drfate786 1690]

Just now, DrakeHaze. said:

Can you be banned already, honestly. Its hard for me to have fun on the forums when I see this vomit.

 

I don't see how I'm breaking the rules, just because you don't like me or my threads doesn't mean your obliged to read them. I'm not chaining you in your moms basement and MAKING you read what I post.

[kuroi13 67]

Just going off the top of my head, so this might need a few corrections, but...

 

If you're trying to reverse aging, you're probably interested in telomere repair, telomeres basically being the little safety caps at the end of DNA strands that keeps them from unraveling when they duplicate. However, after every DNA duplication, these telomeres degrade slightly due to how DNA duplicates itself. Some cancers are already very capable of fixing their telomeres (i.e. HeLa cells are kind of immortal), however, cancer is not very successful at keeping you alive. And even if you could repair your telomeres indefinitely, there's still that general breakdown of DNA as mutations accumulate over your lifetime. After awhile your DNA kind of fails at doing its job, cancer would likely accumulate, you die.

 

As far as viruses go, I'm fairly sure they don't alter your entire DNA, but rather a small section of it. This is fine for the virus cause it doesn't really need to alter your entire DNA to get your cell to replicate it. However, due to the build up of mutations and the gradual breakdown of telomeres in your DNA over your lifetime, I don't see how using viruses to 'replace' your DNA would be feasible unless it did a complete replacement. I'm sure someone's looked into it, but I haven't heard any breaking stories on that yet.

 

Personally, I'd be a little more interested in mechanisms like Mismatch Repair that your body already uses to repair your DNA when it mutates.

 

For cloning.. just cause you clone someone doesn't mean their clone is the same as them.. Even with the same DNA, two people raised in different environments can develop different skillsets, personalities, you name it. Plus, you're really bottlenecking your entire gene pool. Without that diversity, just one well mutated disease could knock the whole population out. 

 

No comment on the bionics bit, since I've never really studied up on prosthetics. I kind of like my limbs the way they are though lol 

 

If you're still curious, I'd recommend you to PubMed or Google Scholar for further reading.

Cheers

[Man of Respect 5471]

7 hours ago, drfate786 said:

A metal limb made of a titanium alloy with hydraulics included could snap your arm in half.

Unless it's a superhuman, i think that'd be quite... heavy.

[Sky 0]

I saw this thread, read it and thought, then came to a difficult decision and had three valid reactions.

 

Reaction I.

 

 

Reaction II.

 

Reaction III.

 

With all the above in mind, why do you feel the need to be an intellectual superior by posting these sorts of threads, or the wording in which you use? I am asking this, not to harass you but to understand you.

 

Also, didn't think I'd ever have to say this to people, but you've proven the oppisite of what I expect from some players. So, this is banter, a joke, some ribbing, a quip, a little diss, jeering, jesting, joshing, kidding, etc, etc.

[Ethan the epic 115]

*This thread has been taken down by the NATO  government for 100% false conspiracy. "They shall never know our dark secrets."

[Krism 67]

The real problem is that we are already living way too long for the planet to be able to sustain us all with food. Unless science either takes a significant amount of us to another planet or creates something that means we won't have to eat food any longer to survive. We will either just live with a situation of mass starving like what we see in Africa, or we will see some sort of forceful reducing population.

[Lotoke 25]

I don't think it's scary, I think it's cool.

[Zindran 590]

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