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Oct. 31, 2017, 7:47 p.m.

the technology to repair/regenerate living cells like a salamander would.

there is lots of secret gene splicing and mixing and matching of animal traits going on on the super hush. not too unthinkable that that would be one of the highest priority research, living longer.

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I was recently thinking about aging. It's been my opinion for a while that we should just accept that we are going to grow old and die and that we have to get over it. I have now heard the argument, however, that the things that happen to us while we age are not unlike the things that happen to us when we get diseases and die. They went on to say that we should treat them the same and we should work on curing aging. This isn't to say that we should live forever, but that the flaws in the mechanisms that replicate our cells could be fixed or assisted and that we could live for a much longer time. I think it's interesting to think about and I agree that it is worth pursuing. Imagine if the life expectancy doubled. What great things could people accomplish if they had more time?

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