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Friday, March 8, 2013

Immortality?

Hello internet. Today I will be talking about the subject of immortality and how we humans in particular can achieve it.

First off, there are two types of immortality, one is known as biologically immortality or total immortality (or simply, immortality).

Biological immortality is the ability to not die of biological means, which means the ability to not die from senescence (old age), or hunger/dehydration. However, the organism can still die from diseases or physical trauma. So the organism can still have a heart attack (from a disease), or being eaten alive (no duh).

Total immortality is the ability to not die of any means, such as biological hazards, physical trauma, or disease. This means the organism is totally invulnerable/invincible.

Right now, no known organisms are achieved total immortality, but some organisms have achieved biological immortality.

One of the organisms that have achieved biological immortality are basically just small bacteria. Like the Turritopsis Nutricula, otherwise known as the immortal jellyfish is...well...an biological immortal jellyfish that can survive without any food or water (why does it need water? IT LIVES IN THE BOTTOM OF THE OCEAN), and cannot die from aging means. Here's how it works:



Interesting fact of the day: The world's population is increasing substantially. Here's a rough guide;
Every second, for every 2 people that die, 4 people are born. Easy math here, so the population is increasing 2.5% per second. Jeez...

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