Long Life Comes at a Cost

[Bottom Feeder]

Survival of the fittest is driven by the need for a species to reproduce.
scienceAlert

The world's population is shifting. We're living longer than ever before, with elderly people taking up a greater proportion of the people on the planet. And those extra years aren't necessarily being enjoyed in good health.

Once the next generation has arrived how fit or otherwise we are matters much less in evolutionary terms. That impacts health in old age in a couple of ways. First, harmful genetic mutations that manifest themselves when we're elderly aren't being weeded out by evolution – at that stage, we've already had kids.
Second, genes that are helpful in youth and damaging in old age are also kept around, because evolution strongly favors the early benefits.

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For example, if a gene or gene variant increases cancer risk in old age but helps you reproduce in your 20s and 30s, that's a good trade-off from an evolutionary perspective.

That's the theory anyway…

 

[Viking]

Soylent Green!

 

[nickndfl]

 

[Bottom Feeder]

Nic, why do you seem to always post some irrelevant video in any of my posts?

 

[Viking]

Nic, why do you seem to always post some irrelevant video in any of my posts?

You have relevant posts?

 

[Casey Jones]

Survival of the fittest is driven by the need for a species to reproduce.
scienceAlert

The world's population is shifting. We're living longer than ever before, with elderly people taking up a greater proportion of the people on the planet. And those extra years aren't necessarily being enjoyed in good health.

Once the next generation has arrived how fit or otherwise we are matters much less in evolutionary terms. That impacts health in old age in a couple of ways. First, harmful genetic mutations that manifest themselves when we're elderly aren't being weeded out by evolution – at that stage, we've already had kids.
Second, genes that are helpful in youth and damaging in old age are also kept around, because evolution strongly favors the early benefits.

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For example, if a gene or gene variant increases cancer risk in old age but helps you reproduce in your 20s and 30s, that's a good trade-off from an evolutionary perspective.

That's the theory anyway…

This is the trend favored by the Globalists. Transhumanism, coupled to stopping of procreation.

The wise Elites will be allowed to live forever - their consciousness transmigrated onto computers.

The Useless Eaters will die off - without offspring. They've done everything imaginable to sterilize, impotate, de-sex, mutilate, the Unwashed, with their brainwashing, their propaganda streams, their elevating of "trans" so as to get young people to mutilate their sex organs in seeking to be what they are not.

Meantime, so MANY of their "medical" products, create impotence in men. SSRIs, for example. Those Gates "vaxx" shots, another class.

They've decoupled sex from orgasm. WHILE desensitizing everyone - unisex public toilets are to erase any remaining physical modesty. Sexual activity is degraded from what starts a family, to mutual masturbation with friends.

They're almost to their fantasy Utopia. And frankly, as one who has no blood lineage...I've stopped caring. They're fools; they're headed to a fool's end; and what happens to me isn't affected, at this point.

 

[nickndfl]

Nic, why do you seem to always post some irrelevant video in any of my posts?

If you knew the movie they have no old age problems.

 

[Bottom Feeder]

You have relevant posts?

Hummmm…
My post was relevant to the Forum descriptor: "Medical" was it not?

Perhaps it is your understanding of the word Irrelevant —

"Irrelevant" means not connected, applicable, or pertinent to the subject at hand. Something described as irrelevant has no bearing on the immediate situation, discussion, or decision, making it beside the point.

Merriam-Webster​

 

[Joe King]

Hummmm…
My post was relevant to the Forum descriptor: "Medical" was it not?

Perhaps it is your understanding of the word Irrelevant —

"Irrelevant" means not connected, applicable, or pertinent to the subject at hand. Something described as irrelevant has no bearing on the immediate situation, discussion, or decision, making it beside the point.

Merriam-Webster​

In the Seattle thread you were talking about how good it is to be wild and crazy and how used to it you are, so just consider his post as being the "wild and crazy" part of PMBug.

I just took it as a type of "solution" to the cost of a long life.

 

[pmbug]

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For example, if a gene or gene variant increases cancer risk in old age but helps you reproduce in your 20s and 30s, that's a good trade-off from an evolutionary perspective.
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This sounds like a marketing campaign for CRISPR gene editing tech.

 

[Bottom Feeder]

If you knew the movie they have no old age problems.

I read the book long ago, in the late sixties. Everyone had to end life at 20 or 30 years old, if I remember.
Report to the paradise hotel and we'll take care of you.
Old age problem solved, eh?

 

[Casey Jones]

I read the book long ago, in the late sixties. Everyone had to end life at 20 or 30 years old, if I remember.
Report to the paradise hotel and we'll take care of you.
Old age problem solved, eh?

THAT problem solved.

Another problem created - 10x the size.

Nobody has any future. Nobody can build a legacy.

SO...WHY WORK? Only fools plan for tomorrow.

Yeah, three-quarters of the public behave like that anyway. But it's a provable truth, that one tenth of the population does nine-tenths of the work.

No future? Alex Graham Bell could have been in Scotland, molesting sheep, instead of monkeying with those stupid carbon-fiber microphones and batteries in a Boston lab. His assistant Watson would have been gleaning out in a field, because it was probably easier than waiting on moody, impulsive Alex.

Our world...well, you can see it, now. Central Africa. Endless stupid pantomimes of warfare; dancing with penis gourds; no industry; little work; a lot of seething hatred at anyone not of the tribe or who has more to eat at any given moment.

People need a MOTIVATION to work hard, and plan, and save. Denying them a future strips that all away, of course.

 

[Lancers32]

I read the book long ago, in the late sixties. Everyone had to end life at 20 or 30 years old, if I remember.
Report to the paradise hotel and we'll take care of you.
Old age problem solved, eh?

It was 30 and it was OK until you turned 30.