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Do they do it on a park bench wearing dark glasses and trenchcoats? Please tell me they do it on a park bench wearing dark glasses and trenchcoats!
Man. Joe has dysentery real bad, someone should take care of him. Wtf wants to nurse a guy through dysentery? No one that’s the problem! Wait, don’t we have a baboon around here?
I want it, how much is it, I’ll report back with my findings
That's actually not surprising to me. The main way radiation kills living organisms is via DNA Damage. The most susceptible is DNA being decoded, as unused DNA is curled up and will less likely be damaged by radiation. The faster stuff grows the more susceptible to radiation damage (that's why radiating tumors works). As a bonsai is by design being kept withing very strict growing boundaries it has a much higher chance of surviving radiation than a normal growing counterpart. Plus fact: there is a bacterial species called Deinococcus radiodurans which as you may have guessed ist extremely durable towards radiation, they do this via very good DNA repair mechanism but also low metabolism and division rates.
Y’all this is really random but it’s 11:11 and it’s also almost Christmas. So I guess make a wish
Guilty as charged. But there has been so many deaths in my life this year.
I remember this exact moment!! I thought it was so awesome, like literally awe-some lol
Then you really start wondering if you are the same person if every molecule in you have changed. Are you still the same person as 10 years ago, or did you change and the old you faded away? I guess it's the same at the philosofic question about if you change every plank in a boat, is it still the same boat. Sort of the same.. :P To much philosofical drivel before lunch!
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Then why doesn’t it use the original plans and not include those wrinkles or chronic disease? That would be really handy!
Think of it like photo copying, something always gets missed in the next copy until a copy of a copy of a copy becomes really degraded
Load More Replies... If this is true, my body's been shopping at Ollie's Bargain Outlet for the past couple of decades. And, I'm pretty sure it didn't think to save a single receipt.
For the last decade and a half, my body’s been shopping at Walmart. No wonder why my brains doesn’t work.
Load More Replies... Key phrase here is most of your body. Cells in the brain, neurones, and those in the centre of the eye lens are as old as you. https://www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-body/what-cells-in-the-human-body-live-the-longest/
Obviously this is playing with data and not factually correct. Internal organs get OLD and so does skin. And don't get me started with eyes.
The reason for aging isn't because the cells are not replaced. It's the actual replacement process that introduces errors into the cells. Every time a copy is made, you accumulate more errors. That is what causes aging.
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But, unfortunately, our body's cells are not replaced with "young" cells. So we continue to age.
Even in your brain there is at least some new cell growth. That is the reason for neuroplasticity, the ability of the brain to rewire itself.
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Because cell replacement isn't perfect and errors accumulate. That is in essence the process of aging.
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I wish my joints would renew themselves. Instead they break down and hurt
So how come I've still got c**p knees and a c**p back from accidents 40 years ago? Why would the body keep renewing faulty parts as faulty? I do agree that some cells regenerate, like skin cells, but am not so sure about the whole body renewing itself...
My tattoos, however, aren't going anywhere. At least I hope not. They were expensive.
The ink is not organic it just stays right where it has been put. Although old tattoos do look slightly faded, the colour pigment wears down very slowly by exposure to wind and sun and abrasion.
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I've heard this new age BS before. The key word is "MOST". This is an AVERAGE. Cells in your liver replace themselves like every three days, but your nervous system is yours for life. Also the 10 years for your bones is a misnomer. Your smaller bones turn over faster than the larger ones. Again, AVERAGES. The bones in your spine, yeah take care of those. Take care of your teeth too. Not like those are growing back either.
A $50 bet, per Snopes. For the curious, here is a list of the 50 words that appear in Green Eggs and Ham: a, am, and, anywhere, are, be, boat, box, car, could, dark, do, eat, eggs, fox, goat, good, green, ham, here, house, I, if, in, let, like, may, me, mouse, not, on, or, rain, Sam, say, see, so, thank, that, the, them, there, they, train, tree, try, will, with, would, you.
Aside from the hypothesis being 80 years old, little dogs living half this, and chickens also being an outlier - us having longer lifespans than 35 years is nothing to do with modern stuff. People historically lived to 60/80/90, General Cao Cao was 65 when he died in the 3rd century of a brain tumour. Lif expectancy was lower in the past but that was because of the high infant mortality rate bringing the number down, not people dropping dead in their 30s.
But, we all knew it was the genie. He's even obviously voiced by Robin Williams, the voice of the genie.
I've spent my kid's entire childhood telling other parents this, they all just think I'm an idiot. Oh well.
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Thank you everyone for being so considerate and kind. It truly means the world.
This has to have been just about the worst collection of rubbish ever posted by BoredPanda.
Thank you everyone for being so considerate and kind. It truly means the world.
This has to have been just about the worst collection of rubbish ever posted by BoredPanda.
