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Anonymous Sat Dec 8 07:52:26 2012 No.5330688 [Reply] [Original]

If a person was born with the mutation for immortal cells, how would it affect their natural, physical lives? Would they actually be immortal in the sense that they wouldn't get "old"?

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 8 07:54:26 2012 No.5330689 Wouldn't they turn into a giant tumour? Whelp, people need to shed their cells sometimes

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 8 07:56:09 2012 No.5330691 >>5330689 lets just say the telomerase doesnt degrade so all their cells my infinately and flawlessly replicate thereby unlocking hypothetical immortality

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 8 07:56:25 2012 No.5330692 File: 73 KB, 300x301, 1354881891838.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydra_(genus)

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 8 07:58:40 2012 No.5330695 >>5330688 google "Turritopsis nutricula" it would probably be similar.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 8 07:59:54 2012 No.5330698 >>5330688 why would one desire immortality? waiting for the heat death of the universe with these 6 something billions intolerable fucks ill pass

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 8 08:03:11 2012 No.5330704 >>5330688 OP, if this isn't why you are asking us in the first place, you should definitely watch this movie: http://www.manfromearth.com/ It's truely great also.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 8 08:05:55 2012 No.5330710 File: 136 KB, 400x400, 24550426.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] when one is immortal time has no meaning, so distance has no meaning. meaning if you get sick of everyone stay on 4chan until spaceships.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 8 08:10:54 2012 No.5330717 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z9WFruP1wA the man from earth a movie about a university history teacher who claims to be 20.000 years old... i think its a very nice movie where they talk about the this concept of not dying

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 8 08:11:55 2012 No.5330719 >>5330704 >>5330717 oops my bad... what this guy sais

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 8 08:17:40 2012 No.5330725 >>5330688 They would develop cancer. Even if you got what you wished for and they didn't die of cancer of the everything in a week, their DNA would deteriorate and they would effectively age into a puddle over a long period of time.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 8 08:21:26 2012 No.5330728 >>5330704 I love that movie. Fantastic actors and it's just so interesting. I had no idea what it was about when I started watching it, and it truly was an experience.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 8 08:21:55 2012 No.5330730 >>5330725 Clearly the DNA will get copied (perfectly) and won't decay.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 8 08:22:40 2012 No.5330731 File: 48 KB, 800x643, when-you-see-it-lol-30716259-800-643.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5330717 looks good ill try to find it.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 8 08:27:39 2012 No.5330740 >>5330717 http://www.icefilms.info/ip.php?v=14339 downloading :)

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 8 09:07:40 2012 No.5330793 >>5330740 >icefilms Whoa, is it 2008?

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 8 09:43:55 2012 No.5330834 >>5330698 >waiting for the heat death of the universe Well that's pessimism if I ever did see some.

Anonymous Sat Dec 8 10:27:40 2012 No.5330907

>>5330691
>the telomerase doesnt degrade so all their cells my infinately and flawlessly replicate
No, see, degradation isn't caused by lack of telemerase, rather telemerase allows the body to compensate for degradation by having it remove cells likely to have been degraded.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 8 12:44:17 2012 No.5331234 They would eventually get cancer, and there'd be now way to stop it.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 8 12:51:17 2012 No.5331244 >>5330691 Yeah. We do that already. It's called "reproduction". Also telomeres aside there are free radicals slowly poisoning your body and there's no vegetarian diet in the world that could prevent it from eventually killing you.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 9 02:33:29 2012 No.5333794 bump

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 9 02:34:13 2012 No.5333796 it's called cancer

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 9 02:34:58 2012 No.5333798 >>5330691 all cancer cells have mutated so they have upregulated telomerase activty

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 9 02:35:58 2012 No.5333801 >this thread is still alive You morons are just as bad as /v/....

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 9 02:36:28 2012 No.5333804 >>5333801 Sorry wrong thread it was meant for >>5333042

Anonymous Sun Dec 9 02:39:28 2012 No.5333820

>>5330907
>telemerase allows the body to compensate for degradation
okay
>by having it remove cells likely to have been degraded.
No wtf????

Why does /sci/ suck at bio/biochem? Second bio thread tonight full of morons. You guys hate on biology yet you guys barely understand the basics. The antibio mentality on /sci/ is some dunning kruger shit

yes i mad

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