Human body from birth to age 29: I am invincible!
Human body once you hit 30: Hey, remember that time your knee was sore for an hour when you were 12? Well now it’s gonna be sore for the rest of your life
have you tried putting that ankle in a uterus for most of a year
This is the best description of stem cell therapy I’ve ever seen.
I’ve tried, the cops keep stopping me.
Behold the power of stem cells
Well… if a ship left the dock, there is only that much that can be repaired while its swimming.
Hmm sounds like they got old. Getting old is widely known to adversely affect your health.
It’s one of the leading causes of death actually
this is why we always want to refactor
Oh good. 4 more years to go.
Does anyone else just want those bacta tanks that they had Luke floating in after his hand was cut off or is that just me?
I bet you could do some serious shit to a person if you had something like that. Just crawl back into this cyber womb and we’ll get you fixed up in a week.
Still couldn’t regrow limbs. Would definitely be nice though.
In Star wars that’s because the journey that Luke Skywalker was going though was running in parallels with the first Irish King Nuada of the Tuatha de Danan, (in Welsh known as Llud) who lost his hand and his kingship due to the Irish requirement that Kings be physically flawless only to regain it with a hand made of silver that was magically attached to him.
https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuada_Airgetlám
If the bacta tank had healed Luke’s hand then he wouldn’t have gotten the cool robot hand which gave him a point of familiarity with his own cyborg father in their final confrontation.
Groovy.
One is a requirement to be an organism. The other is a nice to have. A great many creatures simply die after reproducing, for example, which we can interpret to mean the minimum requirement has been met and anything beyond that isn’t as important, if we like to view it that way.
Forming that small person is also a bit of a chaotic and messy process involving chance errors of various kinds and variations in the way parts grew. In a sense, the person formed would never be exactly the same if you tried again with the same inputs either.
That this system works as well as it does is a miracle.
EDIT: Missing words.
I feel like once you hit your 40s, you really start to understand that concept of your body only being evolved enough to ensure that you can reproduce and the next generation survives.
In your 40s and you hurt your knee? Fuck you, your knee now hurts for the rest of your life - why aren’t you dead already?
This makes me wonder; why then would women typically have longer life-spans then men? Once women hit menopause they are biologically useless for propogating the species whereas men retain the ability impregnate women for their whole lives.
Can ask the same about men. Orcas have menopause. Female orcas live somewhere between 60 and 90 years. Male orcas only 30. Also… post menopausal orcas pimp out their sons. Imagine your mom as your wingman.
We live so long because we rely on experience. Menopause (and andropause) are just ways to make sure the parents don’t compete with their offspring, but stick around long enough to help.
Death and aging is needed to make animals stop reproducing. This is because the only way we can adapt to changing enviroments, is through having offspring with a mutation that is hopefully useful. Lots of algae, fungi, bacteria don’t have this issue. They can just transfer genes they developed/found to anither member of its species like it’s christmas. No need to die if you can just adapt your own genetics.
Menopause (and andropause to a lesser extent) is our copout and allows us to live longer.
I saw something that mentioned having 2 X chromosomes is beneficial. Something about redundant copies of DNA which helps prevent some problems. I dunno, I’m not a scientist.
Grandparents are valuable, and women tend to be smaller and require fewer resources to provide wisdom and babysitting.
Source: the top of my head.
We’re social creature and older generations can help rear children.
I think, that having purpose in life helps, and women tend to prioritize social connection from a very young age, therefore they are on average more connected and that helps in finding purpose. The rest is pure force of will to fulfill the purpose
I feel like this is closer to the reason why suicide is the #2 cause of death for men from like 19-49. After that diseases start to overtake it a bit. Car accident is #1, in case you were curious.
Something the OOP also forgets to take into account is that a LOT of pregnancies fail. Especially in the early stages, before the pregnant person even knows that they’re having a miscarriage.
tail bone fracture enters the chat
What’s special about tailbone fractures?
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I have met 35+ plus people who fractured their tailbones when they were kids and it still hurts once in a while
I used to crack my thumb a lot when I was I jr high.
Now that in 40, it’s perpetually sore
That most likely is due to you being fixated on your thumb. We can and do consistently wire our nervous systems, and in this case you’ve probably wired yours to produce a pain sensation in your thumb.
In a nutshell, this is how chronic pain works. There most likely is nothing physically wrong with your thumb.
Human Body?
Like Disco Elysium
I walk the land telling whores and liars of the end to come. There are 9,855 days remaining.
Reminds me of this scene
Θ∆?
Wrong Doctor.
Human body: I can grow a fully formed human baby OR regrow your big toe nail in like 9 months.
If you would like a brand new big toe nail, simply get pregnant and produce a baby.
Have you tried jizzing on the ankle? That’s the secret sauce.
I just call my stem cell dealer and spackle that shit on