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canefan

@chimoaus sounds like a movie idea

NTA

voodoo

David Sinclair — Armchair Expert

David Sinclair is an Australian biologist and professor of genetics at Harvard known for his research on aging and longevity mechanisms. David chats with the Armchair Expert on his field of advancing the age of an organism, the stigma around aging research and his existing accomplishment of reversin

I listened to the above podcast with an Australian biologist. He seems overly confident on what is possible in the future. He claims that our cells have a DNA recipe that tell the cell what to do. As we age the recipe gets a type of plaque which causes errors in the recipe which often leads to eye disease and a range of issues when aging.

They have found a way to reset the cells recipe to its original form, they have mice who go blind, they then inject the healthy recipe into the eye and use some sort of antibiotic to trigger the new recipe. The eye then repairs itself back to how it was when it was healthy. He believes in theory if you know the recipe you could reset the entire human body over and over.

My immediate thought was we could keep resetting the Goat and DC over and over. You would end up with one amazing fucking AB's team.

Obviously loads of questions arise from this technology and I assume the repairing of organs will be the first step. But you would imagine a huge demand from the wealthy if you could somehow reset your aging body to be 25 forever.

@canefan

ScarJo and Ewan did this already in The Island, albeit using a 3rd party body.

Certainly modern medicine seems to indicate its possible to grow organs.

Its the implications of that, that are terrifying

Bones

Bloody hell, who knew?!

Hilary Brueck / Mar 7 / Health

What daylight-saving time does to your body and brain

Daylight-saving time may seem like a harmless shift. But doctors say it has deadly consequences, increasing risks of heart attacks, and car accidents.

Machpants

@Bones said in Science!:

Bloody hell, who knew?!

Hilary Brueck / Mar 7 / Health

What daylight-saving time does to your body and brain

Daylight-saving time may seem like a harmless shift. But doctors say it has deadly consequences, increasing risks of heart attacks, and car accidents.

Me! It should be banned, fkn waste of time and energy!

Maybe I should put this in the grumpy fluffybunnies thread, Summer Time/DST annoys the crap out of me

antipodean

@Bones said in Science!:

Bloody hell, who knew?!

Hilary Brueck / Mar 7 / Health

What daylight-saving time does to your body and brain

Daylight-saving time may seem like a harmless shift. But doctors say it has deadly consequences, increasing risks of heart attacks, and car accidents.

If "losing" an hour of sleep once a year causes people to have heart attacks, perhaps they should shuffle off this mortal coil.

chimoaus

@antipodean They should avoid air travel of any sort, they would drop dead when stepping into the different time zone.

Snowy

@chimoaus said in Science!:

@antipodean They should avoid air travel of any sort, they would drop dead when stepping into the different time zone.

I can't believe that I'm still alive. 20,000 hours of time zone changes and sleep deprivation. Throw in the radiation at altitude...

I need a nap just thinking about it.

Hooroo

@Snowy said in Science!:

@chimoaus said in Science!:

@antipodean They should avoid air travel of any sort, they would drop dead when stepping into the different time zone.

Throw in the radiation at altitude...

Can you elaborate? I never knew that was an issue for pilots?

Snowy

@Hooroo said in Science!:

Can you elaborate? I never knew that was an issue for pilots?

Yep. The atmospere reduces or filters cosmic / solar radiation - the higher you go the more you get. It wasn't so much of an issue until we started going over the North pole (shorter flight times) and we were limited as to how many polar flights we could do a year for health reasons.

One of my first officers had a geiger counter - it was not fun listening to it.

https://www.nasa.gov/centers/langley/science/polar-radiation.html#:~:text=Exposure to radiation has been,risk%2C according to numerous studies.&text=At the poles%2C however%2C radiation,the altitude where jets fly.

Snowy

I should add that it is about the same as chest X ray, but who has one of those 3 times a month? It's not Chernobyl but it's not great.

We also had chest x rays as part of our medicals to add to it.

Should all be spiderman or X men really (or dead).

booboo

@Snowy said in Science!:

@Hooroo said in Science!:

Can you elaborate? I never knew that was an issue for pilots?

Yep. The atmospere reduces or filters cosmic / solar radiation - the higher you go the more you get. It wasn't so much of an issue until we started going over the North pole (shorter flight times) and we were limited as to how many polar flights we could do a year for health reasons.

One of my first officers had a geiger counter - it was not fun listening to it.

https://www.nasa.gov/centers/langley/science/polar-radiation.html#:~:text=Exposure to radiation has been,risk%2C according to numerous studies.&text=At the poles%2C however%2C radiation,the altitude where jets fly.

Would have thought the chem trails you were spreading would have offered some sort of shielding.

Snowy

@booboo said in Science!:

@Snowy said in Science!:

@Hooroo said in Science!:

Can you elaborate? I never knew that was an issue for pilots?

Yep. The atmospere reduces or filters cosmic / solar radiation - the higher you go the more you get. It wasn't so much of an issue until we started going over the North pole (shorter flight times) and we were limited as to how many polar flights we could do a year for health reasons.

One of my first officers had a geiger counter - it was not fun listening to it.

https://www.nasa.gov/centers/langley/science/polar-radiation.html#:~:text=Exposure to radiation has been,risk%2C according to numerous studies.&text=At the poles%2C however%2C radiation,the altitude where jets fly.

Would have thought the chem trails you were spreading would have offered some sort of shielding.