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https://archive.is/xbNna https://archive.is/xbNna
> With the help of a mathematical model that linked size with age, they estimated that one sixteen-foot female was at least two hundred and seventy-two years old, and possibly as much as five hundred and twelve years old. Because it is difficult to establish background carbon-14 levels in the ocean, and because Nielsen and his colleagues didn’t know which part of the ocean the sharks had been born in, the figure was inexact. Still, it firmly established Greenland sharks as the longest-living vertebrates on Earth. In theory, the biggest ones could be nearly six centuries old.
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- zabzonk 2y agoCan you imagine what a boring existence they must have? Live forever, and do almost nothing.
- salt-thrower 2y agoWell luckily for them, I’d imagine they don’t think too hard about it.
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- apercu 2y agoYou're right, they should totally die much earlier from stress-related illnesses like the rest of us!
- BurningFrog 2y agoYou can also think of it as calm bliss.
- fuzztester 2y agowu wei, nirvana, shanti, samadhi, fana, ... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_(Buddhism) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_(Buddhism) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fana_(Sufism) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fana_(Sufism) i gave two links, you guys can google the others.
- rbanffy 2y ago“For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much — the wheel, New York, wars and so on — whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man — for precisely the same reasons.” ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
- alex1138 2y agoI consider that book/trilogy/fiveology to be canon and nothing can convince me otherwise
- fuzztester 2y agodifferent strokes for boring folks - like you.
- liveoneggs 2y agoIf you like to imagine yourself as a fish you could do much worse than these guys! The male anglerfish comes to mind..
- Mistletoe 2y ago>A Greenland shark's heart beats once every 10 seconds (6 times per minute). More fuel for the fire for the theory that we all get about the same number of heartbeats in a lifetime. Well, I'm off to do my weekly long run to lower my resting heart rate during the week.
- yonaguska 2y agoGood news- I still have a much lower resting heart rate from running years ago- I haven't run in about 12 years due to compounding injuries- but the benefits are still there. It's finally starting to go up to normal, but it used to freak nurses and doctors when they'd measure it.
- Mistletoe 2y agoI feel like gains from running stay with you a long time also. Once I was a runner, it was so much easier to go back to running five miles easily if I ever quit and went back to it. I think there is some body and muscle memory that remains.
- underlipton 2y agoI wonder how the benefits of running regularly compare to living in an area where most of your daily trips are taken by bike or walking.
- Mistletoe 2y agoI think I've read that true endurance and strength of your heart is built running over one hour at a time and in my experience that seems true. Our bodies are so lazy and don't make changes until they absolutely have to. I run 7 miles every Sunday or so. I based that number on that and this paper which shows mortality vs. distance run per week. People that run too much have mortality like a sedentary person! https://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(16)00068-9/fulltext https://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(16)...
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