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* "things that fly live longer than things that don't" | * "things that fly live longer than things that don't" | ||
* Don't waste too much time exploring what nature has had plenty of time to explore by herself | * Don't waste too much time exploring what nature has had plenty of time to explore by herself | ||
== Notes from Truth == | |||
- convex hull approach. look at all the weird species/examples which come close to doing something extreme. see how they fail. | |||
- hydra. low level organism effectively immortal. sexual version senseces, asexual version has immortality. what does that tell us about sexuality, death, and senescence? | |||
- immortal jelly fish | |||
- lobsters appear to undergo obligate growth. keep growing or die. | |||
- syndrome X | |||
- progeriate. | |||
- peter's/ petos? paradox | |||
- long-lived aquatic live. greenland sharks, whales, things that fly, big animals. | |||
- systems in which we don't get cancer. we don't get heart/neural cancer. very low rates of mitosis repair | |||
- brisstle cone pines | |||
- salamanders and neuts | |||
- rhisomes. quaking aspin. | |||
== List of Extremophiles == | == List of Extremophiles == | ||
* ... | * ... | ||