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Life is too short to not be involved in and/or contributing to anti-aging research in any way. If Wright brothers (and other flight enthusiasts around that tim
by fizixer 11y ago
Life is too short to not be involved in and/or contributing to anti-aging research in any way.
If Wright brothers (and other flight enthusiasts around that time) had not taken the initiative, academics, pundits, and "experts" had it settled that heavier-than-air flight is impossible.
It had to eventually happen because technology is inevitable, but we might have conquered flight in 1953 instead of 1903.
In the case of anti-aging, such a difference means you either die or barely make it past the last generation to die.
- copperx 11y agoSurely you mean cancer research? It is much more likely to kill us all than old age.
- fizixer 11y agoWhy do young people not have cancer? (save for rare genetic forms).
- erikpukinskis 11y agoSome cancers are the result of damage. I.e. asbestos in your lungs. Children just haven't punched enough time on the clock to have as many of those experiences. By the time you are old your probability of exposure to at least one of those experiences gets pretty high. That's not aging doing the deed, it's living. Also, some cancers take time to develop, which would make for fewer diagnoses in childhood.
- fizixer 11y agoWell, one of the least ambiguous definitions of aging is "accumulation of damage at the microscopic/cellular level", that includes both accumulation of foreign matter over time (e.g., accumulation of asbestos particles, or cholesterol) and accumulation of damage due to matter or othewise (e.g., damage accumulation due to daily asbestos exposure without asbestos actually accumulating). So you essentially supported my point. If you have a different meaningful definition of aging I'd like to know.