> He Could Hold the Secrets to Defying Death

The struggles for limited resources among humans marooned in a finite ecosystem will not allow us to defy death. When natural causes no longer reduce our numbers sufficiently, we will be winnowed through an unceasing epidemic of violence. So long as there are births, there will be deaths.

If you thought the dementia dystopia brought about by modern medicine's gradual reduction of quick death was grim, just wait until medicine solves natural death entirely.

Tortoises who give up their secrets to humans won't survive the cataclysm.

> The results revealed that Jonathan has “unique gene variants in most aging pathways” including DNA repair, insulin regulation, mitochondrial function, and “low entropy” methylation, reports the study.

min-maxing longevity vs speed and charisma

He doesn't look a day over 90!

Hell yeah I’m down to become a turtle. Lay by the beach. Eat kelp. Awesome

https://archive.ph/jHHYp

Why was the us space force involved?

Interesting so the oldest land animal hasn’t cracked 200 but stuff that lives in the sea can go for five or 600 years or more.

Every couple Summers

Me and a couple hunters

Like to row in from the Isle of

Astonishing M*erf*ers

> Stephen Clark, an aging researcher

Shouldn’t they find a younger researcher?

ok

> the samples were delivered from Saint Helena to Florida by the U.S. Space Force.

...why space force?

he's so old, he's completely lost the hare /j

In the Leftovers people think living in Jarden is why they were left. Maybe St Helena is the new Jarden.

Can't we just appreciate that exceptionality as it is?

Somehow, I wish we would leave that creature alone. For once.